All About Easements

  Do easements make you anxious? If you take nothing else from this post, take this: the existence of an easement is not a defect. Most residential properties have them. Most owners live with them without ever thinking about them. Your goal as a buyer is not to locate a property without any easement

The Preliminary Title Report: What Actually Matters (and What Rarely Does)

    For many homebuyers, the preliminary title report might as well be written in another language. It is long. It is technical. It references documents you have never seen, possibly recorded decades before you were born.  “Is this bad?” our clients ask. Or, just as often, “Do I even need to underst

What is Title Insurance?

It doesn’t get you anything you can see or hold. It does not improve the house. It does not lower your rate. And yet it is not optional. Most buyers sign the paperwork, treat it as a formality, and move on. Title insurance is rarely explained well, even though it is one of the few protections in a r