WFG Insights

Kevin Tacher left his job as a firefighter on Long Island, NY just days before 9/11. He moved to Florida and experienced the ups, and the downs of the real estate business. Kevin joins Insider Report Host Brian Bushlach to share how he built a solid stream of repeat referral business, and how title agents across the country can achieve success and significance in their business and life. He also shares passages from his book "Rescue Your Business".

In this episode, we welcome Richard Barbara, Esquire & COO at Coral Gables Title in South Florida. Richard joins Host Brian Bushlach to discuss how CG Title takes an active role in each transaction. In many cases, Rich and his team solve problems that other real estate professionals involved in the deal either can't, or simply don't know how to handle. Often times, this involves out-of-state investors with a lot on the line. CG Title earns their trust, and their future business.

In this episode, WFG Executive Vice President for Agency Development, Chuck Cain, joins Insider Host Brian Bushlach to discuss changes on the horizon for settlement services providers in 2020. Chuck discusses technology advances, the importance of cost management, and encourages agency leaders to include staff in brainstorming sessions.

With the year winding down, attention turns to business planning and budgets for 2020. In this episode, WFG Founder and Executive Chairman Patrick Stone joins Host Brian Bushlach to discuss contingencies for the year ahead, and how agency partners can maximize their resources by shifting fixed costs to variable costs with the WFG Blocks Program.

Chuck Cain serves as WFG's Executive VP for Agency Development, traveling extensively to assist agency partners across the country. In this role, Chuck has a pulse on industry topics and trends. In this episode, Chuck joins host Brian Bushlach to discuss lender real time loan QA, which will no doubt transform the industry- both in lending, and in settlement services.

It's every settlement agent's worst nightmare: Disaster strikes in the middle of the night, destroying files, servers, computers and everything vital to completing transactions. B and K Law in Matthews, NC went to great lengths to prepare for disaster, and it paid off. Partner Jaime Kosofsky joins the WFG Insider Report to share his firm's story, how they were able to recover, and be back up & running the next business day.

With Q4 underway, host Brian Bushlach meets Founder & Executive Chairman Patrick Stone for this installment of the WFG Insider Report Podcast. Patrick offers his assessment of the overall economy, an outlook on the real estate market- particularly which region of the country could be impacted most by a slowdown, and his advice for settlement agents heading into the final quarter of 2019.

Accountability should be a key initiative for settlement services providers. But how can agents hold employees accountable and achieve results without the perception of micromanaging people? In this episode from the WFG Insider Report Podcast Library, Executive VP of Agency Development Chuck Cain answers these questions and more, telling us where accountability starts, and best practices for agencies.

In this download from the WFG Insider Report Podcast Library, Bruce Phillips, Senior VP and Chief Information Security Officer for West, a WFG Company, joins host Brian Bushlach with an important update on cyber security issues and wire fraud. Why do these issues continue to haunt the settlement services industry? How can we make things easier for customers while maintaining maximum security. Bruce addresses these topics and much more in this download.

In this episode from the WFG Insider Report Podcast Library, Host Brian Bushlach welcomes back Chuck Cain, Executive VP for Agency Development, to discuss how settlement agents can create a winning culture in their company. Chuck offers a number of important tips on the ingredients to long term success in what is challenging business.