Escrow

Title Tip: Show Me The Earnest Money

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / June 14, 2018 /

By Lydia Blair Special Contributor When putting a contract on a property, a buyer can usually expect to write two checks to accompany their contract — an option fee check and an earnest money check. There is no strict rule about how much each of these checks must be. The amount of this up-front money…

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Title Tip: Buying a Home — a State-by-State Comparison

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / April 18, 2018 /

By Lydia Blair Special Contributor Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit. Grab a seat fellow Texans. You may need it when you hear about the way they finalize real estate sales in some of our fellow united states. Let’s start with a peculiar Yankee custom that’s a changin’. A recent revision to…

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