Title Insurance

Title Tip: What is a Title Plant And Why is it Important?

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / May 9, 2018 /

By Lydia Blair Special Contributor A Title Plant is not a big factory that produces property titles. Nor is it a flowering bush used in real estate transactions. A Title Plant – also called an Abstract Plant – is an operation used as the basis for delivering title insurance. The main focus is on historical…

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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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Title Tip: Who Chooses The Title Company?

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / January 23, 2018 /

By Lydia Blair Special Contributor The title industry competes for real estate dollars just like mortgage companies, real estate brokers, and insurance agencies. Competition to be the chosen one is just as fierce and the stakes are just as high. Changes that rippled through the industry in 2015, when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)…

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