Closing Time: 6 Steps Every Homebuyer Should Expect
Your long home-buying journey is almost over. You found the home you love, the seller agreed to your offer and…
View
The Cost of Title Insurance is Worth the Investment
Whenever there’s an article in the news about title insurance, all too frequently there is criticism about the cost. This…
View

What is Title Insurance?
Title insurance is retrospective. That means it covers matters that could affect your title at the time you bought your…
View
Why do I need to buy both an Owner’s Policy and a Loan Policy?
When you buy real estate with all cash out of your own pocket, and you don’t have to borrow any…
View
Concurrent Estates
We have previously discussed several types of estates in land, all of which can exist simultaneously on the same parcel.…
View
Conveyances of Real Estate by Deed
The following discussion is a very elementary discussion of conveyances by deed. It is not intended to be a complete…
View
What is the difference between an Exclusion and an Exception?
In one of my earlier blogs, I discussed the different parts of the title insurance policy. One of the parts…
View
How Do You Determine the Amount of Policy?
You would think it is pretty easy to figure out how much title insurance to buy. But it’s not. That’s…
View
How Recording Laws Determine Date of Policy
One of the essential provisions of a title policy is the Date of Policy. This is made clear in the…
View
Legal Descriptions
Where is it? What is the address? How do I get there? These are all different ways to find out…
View
The Parts of the Title Policy
Like every insurance policy, a policy of title insurance contains sections dealing with what it is insuring, the conditions of…
View
Title Searches and Abstracts
Because a title policy is retrospective in nature, it is necessary for the title company to know the history of…
View
What is a Fee Simple?
Think of a parcel of land not as a piece of dirt, but as a bundle of sticks, with each…
View