Mesa Title Companies And How They Can Help You PDF Print E-mail
Written by Nathan Oulman   
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 12:56
The step after having a fully executed contract for purchasing or selling a house is to open escrow using a title company. A great number of people are confused about what it is that a title company does, and why they should become involved in the home buying and selling process in the first place.
by NathanOulman


The step after having a fully executed contract for purchasing or selling a house is to open escrow using a title company. A great number of people are confused about what it is that a title company does, and why they should become involved in the home buying and selling process in the first place.

There to offer protection to the two parties, a title company proves to be critically important for the transaction. So what are we referring to when we discuss protecting the parties? Referring to a title that the new owner obtains, which must be totally free of liens or other problems overshadowing it, a clear title is truly guaranteed by the title company. This sort of overshadowing cloud might cause the purchaser to change his mind and withdraw from the deal, unless the title company is able to obtain a clear title report, so they will work tirelessly to find a way to clear it up and promise the purchaser that he has a clear title.

Furthermore, the title company labors to come up with additionally required information to obtain public covenants, reports, conditions, as well as any restrictions for the community involved, and to get them over to the purchaser for consideration. On behalf of both the buyer and the seller, they take care of all signatures involved. The lending institution will simply dispatch the various loan documents over to the title company, who will first sit down the seller to sign off on the transaction, and next will sit down the buyer to sign all of the loan documentation along with the various title documents.

After all the required signatures have been gathered on all the documents, the loan documents are sent to the lender for funding; the lender then sends a copy back to the title company, who is now responsible for ensuring that the transaction is properly recorded, the home is now in the buyer's name, the seller's old loan is paid off and the buyer's loan is attached to the property. Finally, the title companies will collect any closing costs and down payments that the buyer agreed to pay and will provide the seller with any remaining proceeds once the loans and costs have been paid and the sale officially recorded.

A vast number of such title companies have gone out of business or had to reduce the numbers of offices that they maintain in the present housing collapse, and yet consolidation is not uncommon in this type of market. So you must ensure that you are dealing with a title company which has been in business a long time. Although the purchaser typically gets to select the title company which is utilized in the transaction, when the home is owned by a bank, then the bank will often employ a single title company for all of its home sales.

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice.