DO NOT USE THIS TITLE COMPANY!!!!!!!!! I have gone above and beyond. I put a ton of extra time and attention on this specific deal. I reached out to several real estate attorneys and were told the same thing. That our title company should have no problem handling these issues. I spent hours and hours and hours combing through county records, calling and speaking to the county, the city, the county clerk, the property appraiser, the tax collector, Blackaller Engineering, Johnson Pace Engineering, 360 Surveys, Collins Surveys, etc. I documented the chain of title all the way back to 1931. I sent proof of all of those deeds and their language proving the existence of Lot 6A by either naming it directly or describing the property lines as "Lot Three (3) and the West 15 feet of Lot Six (6) in Block Four (4) of Griffin Addition to the City of Kilgore, Texas according to Plat prepared by A.P. Noyes and Subdivision signed by Mrs. Spark Griffin on January 30th, 1946. The lot herein conveyed fronting 49.6 feet on West North Street and running back in a Northeasterly direction 90 feet. TOGETHER WITH ALL improvements thereon." I also sent proof that the deed was never recorded for the corner property to the left. I created a boundary line agreement. I hunted down the name and contact information for the next door neighbor. I arranged for the two owners to sign the boundary line agreement and have it notarized. I did all of the above even though I was told specifically by the county, the city, the county clerk, the property appraiser, and tax collector that none of it was necessary as they had zero issues and that all of it was already recorded with the county as public information was available for anyone to find and review for free at https://aumentumpa.greggcounty.texas.gov/RealEstate/SearchEntry.aspx I also had a real estate attorney in addition to the county, the city, the county clerk, the property appraiser, and tax collector all agree that was proof and more than enough proof than would ever be necessary. All of this work I put in should have been done by the title company. I am so disappointed and feel the title company failed all of us involved in this deal as the examination clearly did not do their job. This is obvious as I was able to find all of those documents available on the county website for free, yet the title company failed to find any of those during their title search. Whoever is responsible for doing the title search and examination really should be fired from their jobs for being lazy and careless as I did their job for them and they have cost me not only a deal, but also time and money. When the title company sent over the request to the surveyors they did not include Lot 6A and that is why they did not feel the need to include that one property line in their survey. They were not informed that Ralph planned to flip and resell these properties separately and so they only focused on the exterior boundary of the four technichally five lots all combined. The title company never sent any of the documents, evidence or proof I have mentioned above to Blackaller Surveys. I feel the title company is at fault for the inadequate survey and neither the buyer or myself should be paying for a job not done correctly. I constantly emailed minute by minute updates of everything I did and every piece of evidence that I acquired. This same level of effort and attention to detail was not reciprocated by the title company. Now after all of this the title company has emailed me saying they will not be sending me the earnest money deposit and instead will be using it to pay the surveyors. Yet, when the earnest money was first deposited they sent me an email confirming that should the buyer back out, it would be sent to me. read more
