title business

Boundary Issues: Where Do You Draw The Line?

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / December 15, 2017 /

By Lydia Blair Special Contributor The annual Texas Land and Title Institute has successfully plowed through the snowy Hyatt Hill Country Resort in San Antonio. Jam packed with attorneys and title professionals from across the state, this conference had an impressive Dallas contingency braving the cold. I caught up with Chicago Title‘s Bill Woodall and…

Liens and Titles and Deeds, These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things

By Candy Evans / December 8, 2017 /

CandysDirt.com presents a new feature on everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the title business (and then some): deeds, the closing process, and the title company business. Why, when you buy a home in Texas, do you have to close at a title company? Can you close elsewhere? Can you shop around for title…

Community National Title Plant Manager Geline Spinks Has The Business in Her Blood

By Joanna England / April 8, 2015 /

When I sat down with Geline Spinks and her mother, Carla LaPointe, for coffee, I had to admit to both of these women that I wasn’t exactly well-versed in what title companies do exactly. I knew that there was some research involved, that examiners looked at a property’s history of ownership before a sale could…