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[+] NationalLink LP - Michael Vernon/AZ (5 replies)
4/19/2019 4:50:49 PM (4812 views)

[+] Southern Land and Title - Diane Sherrill/SC (13 replies)
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[+] NO PAY COMPANY - ABIGAIL SOLIS/TX (8 replies)
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[+] Blue Streak Docs - Diane Sherrill/SC (19 replies)
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[+] Title Wave - Diane Sherrill/SC (21 replies)
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[+] Disclaimers - Diane Sherrill/SC (7 replies)
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[+] What's in a name... - Jay Duncan/MO (9 replies)
4/11/2019 1:49:36 PM (3424 views)

[+] Has anyone worked with American Abstractors? - SHELIA DENMARK/GA (8 replies)
4/10/2019 2:44:49 PM (3574 views)

[-] COPIES COPIES COPIES - Patricia Harpur/PA (9 replies)
4/10/2019 2:22:56 PM (3725 views)
Re: COPIES COPIES COPIES - Miriam Shoaff-Rolles/IN
4/15/2019 8:46:00 AM (3593 views)
Re: COPIES COPIES COPIES - Bruce Lutz/PA
7/30/2019 8:41:45 AM (2882 views)

Reducing copy fees is the title company's current crusade. Two approaches are:

(1) Not paying above county costs. What about our time/parking/E&O, etc.? The solution for the searcher is to raise their labor charge.  When taken to task about this, I asked a state-away client "How much above my price would it cost to send one of your employees here to copy one will?"  There are hundreds of online searchers, but only a few on the ground in any given county. 

(2) Pay One Price Searches. This is a trap. I have agreed to this for Last Owner Searches with a narrow range of copies: current deed(s), significant pages of mortgages and assignments. The trap is Sixty Year Searches with copies of all documents: the entire deed chain and all Easements and Restrictions. I agreed once, and received search requests for the four largest condo and PUD subdivisions in the county.  For $200 each, I would have spent a week fetching nearly a thousand copies per order and loosing $400+/order in the process. Clearly, no searcher will agree to this.

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Re: COPIES COPIES COPIES - Victoria Moate/NJ
11/18/2019 11:44:20 AM (2825 views)
Re: COPIES COPIES COPIES - stephen willard/OH
11/25/2019 9:21:31 AM (2960 views)
Searches No Copies? - Victoria Moate/NJ
11/25/2019 11:26:59 AM (2445 views)
Re: Searches No Copies? - stephen willard/OH
11/25/2019 11:41:22 AM (2538 views)
Re: Searches No Copies? - Victoria Moate/NJ
11/25/2019 1:08:06 PM (2745 views)
Re: Searches No Copies? - Catherine Damore/PA
11/25/2019 1:37:55 PM (2650 views)
Re: Searches No Copies? - Victoria Moate/NJ
11/25/2019 1:48:29 PM (2798 views)

[+] Smart Abstract Services - Ted Williamson/TX (7 replies)
4/4/2019 12:26:41 PM (3965 views)

[+] 51 TITLE & TAXES LLC - Tamara Howard/FL (1 reply)
4/4/2019 11:21:45 AM (3630 views)

[+] NO PAY COMPANY - Amy May/LA (10 replies)
3/28/2019 5:06:24 PM (4427 views)

[+] Realty Data - Smitty Strickland/SC (21 replies)
3/26/2019 10:25:15 AM (4470 views)

TM Abstract - Rachel Homer/OR
3/21/2019 6:19:11 PM (2983 views)

[+] Georgia Title Services - Lucille Femine/TN (11 replies)
3/20/2019 10:56:07 AM (3274 views)


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