Pennsylvania Title Insurance Agent About Accuracy On The Internet! What does that title mean...what is this post about? What have we found about the accuracy of information on the internet!
Ever since I joined Active Rain almost 4 months ago I have wondered about what information I could really trust on the internet.
As a company dealing primarily with the handling and reporting of information, important information especially for the real estate owner and lender, the internet itself promises many new and interesting ideas and ways to cut costs and speed up service.
As title insurers, however, there is much that we have found unreliable...too risky to trust for title insurance purposes...too unproven on which to base a factual report! I'm talking about 'good info', 'interesting info', perhaps even 'anecdotally nice to know info'...but just not accurate enough for title insurance purposes.
One of our goals as title insurers is to provide efficient, risk free, and litigation free home ownership to all consumers!
It is not my intent to single out which web sites I'm speaking about, but rest assured they're ones you and I use quite frequently in the course of our businesses...and I'm NOT referring to Active Rain of course.
These sites deal with such things as 'mapping info', 'assessment info', 'property value info' and various other data base type information...these sites are proliferating at rapid speed and new ones appear every day in an effort to capitalize on 'internet traffic'.
Let me give you just one small example...On several sites when you punch in the exact address of Patriot Land Transfer, Inc., an address that has been used for over 5 years now, you will not see an accurate map showing our precise location...some show our location almost a mile different than our actual site...and this is after we reported errors to two different data base services who assured us that the errors would be corrected...that was 6 months ago...and you guessed it, it's still wrong!
So this is a 'traffic control' post!
Please continue to explore these new and interesting sites, but be aware and scrutinize them before you take such information as accurate fact! We can learn a lot on the internet, but we need to be careful about whose information we can trust, and how much confidence and credibility to place on these sites.
I guess the old adage, "consider the source", is still true...and still good advice!
Personally I have found that the information I have derived here on AR from reading various posts and comment threads has proven to be very useful and very accurate...and more and more as I trust the various sources here, I am able to be more receptive to learning and trusting even more.
The team of over 55,000 real estate professionals here at AR provide about the most useful and accurate real estate information available to the consumer or the real estate industry on the internet or elsewhere.
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