As a result of the efforts of ActiveRain All-Stars like Ed Rybczynski, Fran "the Title Man" Gaspari and Lenn Harley, AR members and visitors are being made aware of the risks that real estate buyers are being exposed to by Big Title's ever-increasing reliance on offshore "thin" title plants and online public records. I defer to Lenn's wealth of expertise in the real estate industry, whose statement in an earlier blog post summed things up better than I ever could have: "The title search is one of the most important transactions involved in buying a home. It's isn't the place to begin an economy drive."
I always say that a title policy is only as good as the search that was relied upon to issue it, and by extension, the search is only as good as the abstractor who prepared it. In today's business climate, with real estate fraud and forclosures at all-time highs, it's important to know who you're working with. Real estate agents and brokers need to start asking the right questions of the lenders and title agents with whom they do business. Do their abstract vendors/providers use "hands-on" abstractors with "boots on the ground" and an intimate knowledge the intricacies of local indexing systems (which vary greatly, even from county to county)? Do they have a point-of-contact to verify questionable items when necessary?? Is the title agent issuing policies on "short searches" or do they insist on having a full 40- or 60-year title search which has been reviewed by a qualified title examiner or attorney? Are they putting your consumer at undue risk just to save a couple hundred bucks?
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