{"id":1898,"date":"2014-04-03T20:10:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T20:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastforwardstory.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2017-06-20T17:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T21:56:28","slug":"title-insurance-explained-visually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/title-insurance-explained-visually\/","title":{"rendered":"Title Insurance Explained Visually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding:56.0% 0 28px 0;position:relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height:100%;left:0;position:absolute;top:0;width:100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_up0l6mmv5o videoFoam=true\" style=\"height:100%;width:100%\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What is\u00a0title\u00a0insurance\u00a0and why should any buyer get it when purchasing a home (single family, townhouse, condo, apartment, or whatever format your home purchase takes)? Doesn\u2019t the attorney or settlement company handling the closing see to it that you have a clear\u00a0title? Isn\u2019t this just another way for someone to siphon a few coins off a real estate transaction?<\/p>\n<p>Title\u00a0insurance\u00a0prevents the property owner from suffering financial loss if, at any time during his ownership of the property, someone comes along who can show that they have full, or partial, ownership of the property instead.<\/p>\n<p>A careful\u00a0title\u00a0search is done at the time property changes hands. On rare occasions mistakes are made anyway. Property can change hands in a number of ways including by deed, by will and by court action. Typically, these proceedings are recorded in different places. Searching the history of ownership to be sure nothing has fallen through the cracks is a tedious job that requires alertness, intelligence, and skill.<\/p>\n<p>It is very likely that the value of your property will go up over the years. As time passes, these elements are likely to result in your home equity\u2019s being your largest asset. Just how devastating would it be if you eventually discovered that someone else owned what you\u2019d always thought was your home?<\/p>\n<p>Do yourself a favor. When you buy a home, buy\u00a0title\u00a0insurance. \u00a0And watch the video to understand the essentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What is\u00a0title\u00a0insurance\u00a0and why should any buyer get it when purchasing a home (single family, townhouse, condo, apartment, or whatever format your home purchase takes)? Doesn\u2019t the attorney or settlement company handling the closing see to it that you have a clear\u00a0title? Isn\u2019t this just another way for someone to siphon a few coins off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.titlecompanywebdesign.com\/uslandtransfer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}