Just to give you a different perspective on it...

The reason a lot of companies have problems paying for no-finds is because there are a lot of abstractors out there who get the search order, don't do the search, then fax it back writing "no find" across the page. Then the company employees have to spend their day on the phone with the clerks proving that the property IS there.. the mortgage IS there.. and the abstractor didn't do their job.

I'm not saying this is what you do, just that I've had a lot of experience with abstractors who do that and give the rest of us a bad name.

However, if you can make their job easy and prove to them that it really is a no find (perhaps sending them back a printout from the county or give them something to go off of like "Joe Smith doesn't own this property, but Mary Jones does..." so they can go back to their client and say "here's the story...") usually they have no problems paying the search fee or a no find fee.

Just a thought :)

- Amanda

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