What are the Features of a Title Plant?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 03/08/2021
- Real Estate
A title plant, also called an abstract plant, is an extensive database containing all the information needed to make decisions about title insurance and property purchases. Title plants reduce the cost of title insurance by mitigating risk ...
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What You Need to Know About Texas Public Records
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 02/26/2021
- Courthouse Documents
Before you start your Texas public records search, you might like a better idea of what you’re looking at. Public records cover a vast array of documentation that helps everyone track the essential things in life.
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How to Locate Adverse Tax Liens Online
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 09/02/2020
- Real Estate
Whether you are a real estate investor or simply looking for a new home, an adverse lien can bring things to a screeching halt. One of the first steps of your due diligence is finding out if the property you are interested in purchasing ...
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5 Property Search Pointers
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/26/2020
- Real Estate
Searching for a property, whether it's commercial or residential, can be exciting. There is a lot to learn and so much to see that it can be overwhelming to first-timers. Even those experienced in property transactions can find themselves ...
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What You Need to Know About Mineral Appraisals
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/19/2020
- Real Estate
When you own land in Texas, your “estate,” or property you own, is split into two - you have the surface estate and a mineral estate. Within municipalities, the local government typically owns the mineral estate, but out in the wide-open ...
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What Does A County Clerk Do?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/07/2020
- CourthouseDirect.com
Would you like to be the County Clerk? You really, really need to love paperwork, documentation, and taking notes. And that’s just to start. Most people don’t know what goes on at the County Clerk’s office. It’s much more involved than you ...
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What is Document Storage & Retrieval?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 07/08/2020
- Courthouse Documents
Today, the world generates exponentially more information. Fortunately, most of it is stored electronically in a data management system of one sort or another. Searching is done online, and retrieval means opening a document on your ...
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What Documents Do I Need to Sell My House?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 06/17/2020
- Real Estate
So, you’re getting ready to sell your house. Exciting! Now, you’re probably asking yourself, “What documents do I need to sell my house?” We’re so glad you asked. Keep reading to find out all the paperwork (some of it might be available ...
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Why do you need a real property report?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 05/07/2020
- Real Estate
When dealing with real estate, the amount of information needed to make an informed decision abounds. One of the reports you need to help you determine the value of your potential property investment is a property report. Property reports ...
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Using CourthouseDirect.com’s Tax Maps, Tax Records, and Recorded Plats
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/22/2020
- Real Estate
Three tools available at CourthouseDirect.com are the Tax Map, Tax Record, and the Recorded Plat databases. Accessible from the GIS Map search application, each of these databases is chock full of data and information useful to anyone ...
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