Why Title Is So “Boring”
When planning a career, there aren’t many of us who drift over to the thought of being a title officer. It’s not glamorous and it’s extremely technical. Ultimately, a really good title shop should feel pretty boring (we’ve redubbed it “calm”). But like the swan on any pond, there’s something more active beneath the surface. It might explain why we show up to such a “boring” job every day, and actually enjoy it.
Deep Research
Running title on a piece of real estate is one of the more comprehensive research projects you can imagine. Every single legal record related to a property since its initial ownership has to be examined and the current ownership status must be verified and confirmed. If there is even the slightest possibility that a person doesn’t have a clearly defined claim to a piece of real property, it must be resolved in this process. If “Aunt Tilly” wrote and signed a napkin that said her nephew could have half the land when she died, and it was recorded, that needs to be discovered and resolved.
Communicating Technical Details in a non-technical way
No one knows the title process like a escrow officer does. But anybody who is engaged in a transaction needs to understand the fundamentals to a certain degree in order to make any kind of disclosures worth their weight. Telling someone about something they completely don’t understand seems like a waste of air, right? There are some people who will only buy one house in their entire life, but they are entitled to know exactly what they are buying, and have certainty that they will be the owners of that property. So we walk the fine line of explaining, simply, in an informative way without dragging people through overly technical details. It’s a craft!
A Vital Necessity
Without this “boring” work, land wouldn’t be worth much, because anyone could walk up to you and say that they owned it too. Fundamentally, that’s the risk that the whole title industry was created to iron out. So when 2020 turned upside down, we kept our doors open by necessity. You can’t have any value in real estate without a title process.
If it looks boring from the outside, that means we’re doing a good job.
It means we’re keeping the surface waters calm, working hard beneath them to create transactions that don’t just feel seamless, they are seamless. We work hard to create an atmosphere that’s calm, clear and concise. We use simple, modern systems to do it. So yes, in a way, we hope that title stays looking boring to everyone we work with.
That’s title delivered simply, through modern systems.
Get back to the calm, shall we? Isn’t that why we all live here? To get a feel for who we are, give us a ring or schedule a time to come by and see how the sausage is made. We’re right in the center of town, on the 2nd floor of the Chase Bank building. Some of you may remember, this is a great place to have a title office