Over the years, some clients have asked us why is title insurance necessary if a title search will uncover title defects. Other clients have challenged that they have never needed title insurance on previous home purchases and they don’t...
The buyer was stuck with a $9,550 special assessment on her property tax bill because she waived title insurance coverage at closing.
In this story, the homebuyer purchased a property from an estate in which the prior owner decedent had...
Just this morning we received an inquiry from a seller who discovered an old home equity line of credit was still open from a bank that had since merged several times.
The seller had no paperwork for such a loan or any recollection of taking...
In 35 years as a Realtor, Ellen Sandler of Evers & Co. has had just one buyer refuse title insurance.
Thankfully, it was the not the buyer in this story, because the buyer in this story would one day become a seller with a real property...
We had a couple waive an owner’s policy that would have cost $815. They’ve spent near $20,000 in attorney fees defending title to their home.
The seller sat across from them and signed closing documents. He brought a notarized Power...