A GOOD LAWYER
> Only in Louisiana - you have to love this lawyer - It's too good not to
> share!
>
> Everyone who has ever bought a house will enjoy this. A New Orleans
> lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client who lost his house in Hurricane
Katrina
> and wanted to rebuild. He was told the loan would be granted if he could
> prove satisfactory title to the parcel of property being offered as
> collateral.
>
> The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the Lawyer
> three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he
> received the following reply:
>
> (Actual letter):
> "Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we
> note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we
> compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the
> application, we must point out that you have only cleared titl e to the
> proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be
> accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."
>
>
> Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:
> (Actual Letter):
>
> "Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received. I
> note that you wish to have title extended further than the 194 years
covered
> by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in this
> country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know
> that Louisiana was purchased, by the U.S., from France in 1803, the year
> of origin identified in our application. For the edification of
> uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership
was
> obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from
Spain. The
> land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the
year
> 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted
> the Privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch,
> Isabella.
>
> The good queen, Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful
> about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of
the
> Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus ' expedition. Now the
> Pope, as I sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of
God,
> and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe
> it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called
> Louisiana.
>
> God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back
> to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it AND the FHA.
>
> I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we
> have our damn loan?"
>
> He got the loan.
> Only in Louisiana - you have to love this lawyer - It's too good not to
> share!
>
> Everyone who has ever bought a house will enjoy this. A New Orleans
> lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client who lost his house in Hurricane
Katrina
> and wanted to rebuild. He was told the loan would be granted if he could
> prove satisfactory title to the parcel of property being offered as
> collateral.
>
> The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the Lawyer
> three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he
> received the following reply:
>
> (Actual letter):
> "Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we
> note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we
> compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the
> application, we must point out that you have only cleared titl e to the
> proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be
> accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."
>
>
> Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:
> (Actual Letter):
>
> "Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received. I
> note that you wish to have title extended further than the 194 years
covered
> by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in this
> country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know
> that Louisiana was purchased, by the U.S., from France in 1803, the year
> of origin identified in our application. For the edification of
> uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership
was
> obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from
Spain. The
> land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the
year
> 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted
> the Privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch,
> Isabella.
>
> The good queen, Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful
> about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of
the
> Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus ' expedition. Now the
> Pope, as I sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of
God,
> and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe
> it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called
> Louisiana.
>
> God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back
> to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it AND the FHA.
>
> I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we
> have our damn loan?"
>
> He got the loan.