American lawyer

[Bitter End]

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 title 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'm 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.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Thanks for the laugh!

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