What are the responsibilities and job description for the Title Examiner/Abstractor position at Old Republic Title?
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Benefits may include:
Job Description:
Responsible for examining titles, searching real estate records, and compiling a list of mortgage and other contracts for Residential and Commercial properties.
Primary responsibilities:
- Examine and verify titles.
- Search real estate records.
- Summarize legal or insurance documents.
- Compile lists of mortgages, contracts, and other instruments pertaining to titles by searching public and private records for law firms, real estate agencies, or title insurance companies.
- Search, analyze, and evaluate records relating to titles of homes, land, and buildings.
- Ensure that the title to a property in question has no restrictions that may prevent or hinder its sale or use.
- Issue title insurance, acquire rights of way, buy and sell property, grant mortgage loans, and obtain and protect mineral rights.
- Search public and private records for law firms, real estate agencies, or title insurance companies.
- Examine deeds, deeds of trust, liens, judgments, easements, and plats/maps to determine ownership, encumbrances, and to verify legal descriptions of property.
- Prepare property reports and title commitments.
- Analyze chain of title and preparation of reports outlining title-related matters.
- Examine title reports from outside abstractors.
- Be able examine lot and block residential and metes and bounds descriptions for commercial properties.
- Understanding and using plant software.
Knowledge / Skills / Experience Required:
- Working knowledge of real estate law.
- Ability to run simple legal descriptions.
- Abstracting knowledge is mandatory.
- Must have ability to review Probates, Divorce and Bankruptcy proceedings in addition to Tax and District Court suits.
- Must be computer literate.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills to respond to customer requests.
- Good organizational skills.
Benefits may include:
- Comprehensive medical, prescriptions, dental and vision plans
- 401(k) plan with a discretionary company match
- Shareholder Purchase and Reinvestment Plan
- Basic life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance premium paid by the company
- Voluntary supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses and dependent children
- Fertility and Family Building Benefits
- Paid Disability benefits
- Paid time off programs
- 11 Company paid holidays per year
- Flexible spending account
- Health savings account (available to High Deductible Health Plan participants only)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Educational Assistance Program
- Voluntary benefits, such as Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and Accident Insurance
- Title insurance policies and certain escrow services for the employee’s primary personal residence at no charge
- Transportation benefit plan for mass transit, parking and vanpool, in several markets
Note: If you currently are employed by Old Republic Title (or one of its wholly owned affiliated companies) please get in touch with your human resources representative regarding the application process.
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Old Republic Title is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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