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The largest part of our
time in representing you will be spent examining various public
records to determine the status of the title to the property. We
will be reviewing the land records at the Town or City Clerk's office
to see if there are mortgages, covenants, easements and other matters
that will affect the title to your property. We will also look at
the municipal zoning records to determine what building permits
and certificates of occupancy the property may have required. If
you know of any significant changes or alterations to the property,
it would help us if you let us know about them. Since we do not
physically inspect the property we strongly recommend that you have
the property surveyed prior to purchase. A search of the land records
by an attorney will not disclose the presence of unrecorded easements
or improvements which may have been done to the property without
a required permit. Further, it will not disclose encroachments of
other structures or reveal any rights claimed under the doctrines
of adverse possession or prescriptive easement. These matters would
be revealed by a competent survey. If you wish, we can provide you
with the names of several local surveyors.
After we complete our
investigation, we will prepare and issue a Report and Opinion on
Title to you describing the results of our search. The title opinion
must be issued within a few days of the closing. If you wish to
review the title in advance of your closing or you wish a title
search to be conducted early, you can request that we do an initial
search. We will then do an update within a few days of closing.
There will be an additional fee for this update. We recommend that
you take advantage of this so we may be able to discover potential
title problems early and work to fix them before your closing date.
The information
you obtain at this site is not, nor is it intended to be legal advice.
You should consult an attorney for individual advice regarding your
own situation.
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