What are the responsibilities and job description for the Abstractor position at First Iowa Title?
Job Description
Job Description
Abstractor Job Description
Summary :
Compile list of mortgages, deeds, contracts, judgments, and other instruments (chain) pertaining to title by searching public records of Marshalltown, Iowa
Primary responsibilities :
- Search and verify titleholders
- Build abstracts and / or continue abstract updates
- Search and collect documents reflecting the history of a property
- Use of various websites and internal programs to locate property information
- Transmit completed updates, searches and reports to the appropriate party
- Search real estate records and summarize legal documents
- Compile lists of mortgages, contracts, and other instruments pertaining to titles by searching public 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.
- Confer with realtors, lending institution personnel, buyers, sellers, contractors, surveyors, and courthouse personnel.
- 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 searches
- Answer phone to assist customers
- Back up for front desk
- Other duties as required by management
Competencies :
PHYSICAL DEMANDS :
The employee is required to walk to the Courthouse to retrieve documents and / or do research, occasionally required to lift and / or move up to 10-15 pounds, and sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel and crouch.
EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK :
This is a full-time position – Monday through Friday 8 : 00 a.m. to 4 : 30 p.m.
MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED TO PERFORM JOB : High School Diploma or equivalent
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED TO PERFORM JOB : Abstracting experience preferred and / or experience in a related field
EEOC STATEMENT :
First Iowa Title Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer
