Title Insurance Report
This is primarily for North Carolina surveyors. I had an attorney that I have never dealt with before ask me yesterday for a title insurance report in addition to my survey plat that I had sent her. Does anybody else still furnish these? I use to furnish these years ago, but I thought they had been phased out since nobody in my area has asked for one in years.
What is a title insurance report? Is it different than a simple title report, or a title commitment?
If this attorney is representing the buyer, why would they be asking you for the title report? It would seem to me that the attorney should be the one who orders the report and gives you a copy. I have personally never ordered a title report, I make that the client's responsibility to provide it for me.
If this attorney is representing the buyer, why would they be asking you for the title report? It would seem to me that the attorney should be the one who orders the report and gives you a copy. I have personally never ordered a title report, I make that the client’s responsibility to provide it for me.
Yeah, the owner should be the one giving the report to everybody.
I don't mind ordering them myself though because a quarter of the time if I let the client do it they send me something worthless like a parcel inquiry (title companies around here must do those for free or something).
No.
Another issue is that, if the report is in the client's name, it is not mine to share with anybody since it includes personal information.
While i'm not a NC surveyor, we get title reports on almost everything. We are currently waiting on over 50 reports for one project and 80+more on another. It's the only way we can determine the true owner and any easements on the properties. Plus, they are dirt cheap. Well worth the $300!
I'm a little confused on how you are waiting on multiple title reports for a single job. If the title search is done correctly, you should get one report for each job that could range from a few pages to hundreds of pages. I've had to work with some title reports that were up to 300 pages, but, everything was all in a single report.
Our projects are very large, 50-100 parcels and typically involve pipeline installation, roadway expansion and right of way or easement acquisition. Each parcel has a report.
