A title company researches, insures, and facilitates the transfer of property ownership: examining title to confirm clean ownership, issuing title insurance to protect buyers and lenders against title defects, and handling the escrow and closing process through which transactions complete, in...
Log in to followSmall deal, four of us in an LLC buying a 1960s six unit in a second tier market for $612k. Cash portion from members, the rest from a local bank at 70 percent. I was the one hand…
Bought a four unit last month, $585,000, small city, plan is a light rehab and hold. First real title mess I've been through, so writing it up for anyone who thinks the search is…
First rental, a $168k three bedroom in a modest inner-ring suburb. At the closing table the settlement statement had the lender's policy on it, which the bank required, and then a…
Five years in and I'd always treated title as the buyer's side of the fence. Changed that this spring after a listing died at day 34 over an old lien, which cost me the fee and th…