• Searching various documents, such as deeds, mortgages, assignments in different websites provided by the client.
• Performs title examination and examines the chain of title for orders.
• Prepares preliminary title status reports based on examination and research.
• Examines deeds, deeds of trust, easements, codes, covenants and restrictions, deed assignments, re-conveyances, taxes, judgements, liens, assessor's parcel maps and other documents.
• Verifies that legal descriptions are written accurately.
• Identifies specific requirements for preliminary title report, including requirements for affidavits for questionable documents.
• May perform all of the duties of a title searcher including opening files and inputting data, generating data from County records to identify tax payments and status, printing relevant documents and reports, sorting and assembling information, requesting additional documentation from title plants, and performing related support duties.
• Prepares initial title commitment documentation based on the application for procedural guidelines.