Juliana Tu Selling or refinancing your property? You know you will need to provide the right payoff information to the right person at the right time. This …
Read moreEscrow Tip #9 – Payoff Info – The Importance of being “Right”
What single event can cause an unintended delay to your escrow transaction? How about a name change or correction? Nothing major, you think, just adding …
What is the purpose of setting up a Trust? It is a method of financial planning to take care of our assets the way we …
How does a forbearance affect the Escrow Officer? Why does it concern us or make us nervous when we have one in a transaction? In …
An Escrow Officer may not be always available to sign up clients and do their documents notarizations. During such times we may employ a mobile …
Read moreEscrow Tips #6 – The Importance of the Mobile Notary
In my Escrow Tips section I offered a story called “ Unintentional contract fraud” – Tip #12. Regretfully, we have a much more serious incident …
Read moreEscrow from the Trenches – INTENTIONAL Document Fraud!
Has this ever happened to you? Your buyer submitted their offer and the seller accepted it, then the seller made changes on the original contract …
From time to time we will be cc’d on an email from a lender or a real estate agent that says, Congratulations! Your loan has …
Freeze! Okay, so this is not a cop and robbers show. But this is what we ask when we see that a transaction has a …
Read moreEscrow From the Trenches – Freeze! Equity Line Drama
Most of you are familiar with the types of funds that a settlement agent will take to open or complete an escrow transaction. Each settlement …
Read moreEscrow From the Trenches – When is a Wire not a Wire?