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Land Patent FAQ, Part 1: What is a Land Patent?

For many landowners, land patents are a vaguely defined or even foreign concept. These days, the vast majority of regular Americans own their homes or properties through a deed or title issued by their local jurisdiction. In exchange, they ...
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Why Buy Title Insurance?

Title insurance is a policy that brings peace of mind to a property owner. It lets the homeowner know that the property you think you own is indeed yours. The title company did a search through years of public records tracing the chain of ...
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Who Owns the Land you Live on?

The land we live on has been around a long time, so it’s only natural that various parcels of this land may have changed ownership several times. This ownership gets complicated when you consider that while one person or entity may own the ...
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