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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…
Read MoreBy Lydia Blair Special Contributor Contracts are signed, inspections completed, movers are scheduled, and the big day is almost here. It’s full speed ahead to closing day. That’s the big day when paperwork is signed, money changes hands and the keys are handed over. But what happens when one of the individuals can’t make it…
Read MoreBy 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…
Read MoreBy Lydia Blair Special Contributor Title companies are like the private detectives of real estate. That’s right. We’re like a combination of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond. Only without the guns and fast cars. Well, maybe we’re closer to a mixture of Nancy Drew and the tech nerd in the back of your office.…
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