Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale
by cmiles74 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:41PM
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The federal government never enumerated the power to manage a national credit agency and yet we have several.
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The federal government doesn't manage any national credit agencies.
I don't see how that matters, the point is that we don't need the federal government's mandate in order to have a national clearinghouse of title data.
Re:221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale
by IcyWindows on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:55PM
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Since title events, like marriages, can happen outside the US, that only helps a little.
That’s not what’s being discussed. In other countries that operate under what’s called the Torrens title system, the government maintains an authoritative central land registry. If you wind up in a legal dispute about ownership of a piece of land, the judge looks at the government books and is bound by what they say (with minimal exceptions).
We cannot have such a national registry in the United States. We could have 50 independent ones, but the few states that tried it have given up and reverted.