WARNING! - STUCK WITH HUGE TAX BILL! - DO NOT USE!
We closed a real estate transaction here. A couple months later, I got a $19,000 tax bill from Travis County. Unbeknownst to me, the seller had claimed multiple homestead exemptions for multiple years. When I contacted Heritage Title about this issue, they were unsympathetic, defensive, and offered no help other than to suggest I file an insurance claim.
Title companies supposedly exist for this very reason (to catch this kind of fraud). This is the kind of very predictable issue that Heritage Title could have uncovered with a minimal amount of effort, using publicly available information on the county assessor's database.... but apparently, Heritage Title doesn't do even this basic amount of due diligence. There are many other title companies in Austin - do yourself a favor and choose another one. read more