Tag Archives: Title and Escrow
Understanding Preliminary Reports
After months of searching, you’ve finally found it -- your perfect dream home. But is it perfect?
Will you be purchasing more than j...
Statements of Information
What’s in a name?
When a title company seeks to uncover matters affecting title to real property, the answer is, “Quite a bit.”
Sta...
Title Insurance When Refinancing Your Loan
Lower interest rates have motivated you to refinance your home loan. The lower rate may save you a tremendous amount of money over the ...
Title Insurance Requirements for Insuring Trusts
In today’s world of busy probate courts and exorbitant death taxes, the living trust has become a common manner of holding title to rea...
Title Insurance – Where Does Your Dollar Go?
Title Insurance: As a homebuyer, the term is probably familiar - but is it understood? What is your dollar actually paying for when you...
Understanding Title Insurance
What is title insurance? Newspapers refer to it in the weekly real estate sections and you hear about it in conversations with real est...
Creative Financing
Creative financing: You’ve heard of it, and, as a seller, the idea sounds pretty attractive. But, do you know everything you need to kn...
Closing and Title Costs
It’s the big day.
The day you go to the title or escrow company, sign your name on the dotted line, hand over a check and prepare to...
Required Reporting to the I.R.S.
Sellers of real property will have certain information regarding the sale reported to the Internal Revenue Service.
This required re...
The Functions of an Escrow
Buying or selling a home (or other piece of real property) usually involves the transfer of large sums of money. It is imperative that ...