Title Companies Tampa Bay Area FL

[Josh Green]

Looking for tips and or referrals! How did you find an excellent title company? By excellent, I expect great customer service, communication, and obviously thoroughness as far as title clearing is concerned. What I'm trying to find is the best value - title is responsible for a good chunk of closing costs so how have you found a great priced title company to work with? Don't like how non transparent pricing can be and wanted to gather ideas here.

[Michael Haynes]

Hello Josh Green in Tampa, you are like the guys on GYLDgang.com who are comparing the Cost and Yield and monthly or quarterly Dividends of the YLD type ETF's. Your nitpicking the Title companies when I started 35 years ago with an old time Agent who used to own a Car Dealership with a Business Degree, who only steered me to the Best...not the cheapest. All the young brokers I dealt with in the last ten years in Tampa had a friend who was a Title guy or they had their own with the Brokerage they just started. I was Selling what I had in Tampa and if I could I would get the Buyer to use Stewart Title. Think...something goes wrong and your Underwriter is in Chicago. What do you do? With Stewart you walk right in and have a talk. On my 6804 S. Hesperides 3/1 house that I sold without a sign or an ad as the Buyer was walking the neighborhood, looking for something next to her boyfriend next door. She and her mother were down for the day from Atlanta. We went back and forth for four hours and just before they left to catch their flight, they offered my Price with a selection of tiles for bath and backsplash etc. They wanted me to use some "Lawyer/Broker" in Riverview, who said he also was a Title company and when I tried to get in contact the message said that no one in the office until next week, etc. I convinced the young lady to use Stewart to get 'er done and we were all happy. The house was for her mother and some parrots and they resold after a year for $100,000 more. That's a happy ending. I don't want to be strung out or get pushed around by the young guns and their friends who may have a Title company etc. especially if the property I am selling has any Zoning concerns or a property line in dispute etc. Like the four Commercial lots I finally sold two years ago at 6305 S. Roberts Ave. near the Base. Took the Developer at Beggins, six months to get through the Plans Department and he had to get their lawyer to finally send a Complaint letter to the Mayor when he is the President of the Mayor's Development Council. The Director of Plans was holding up the final approval and the Mayor had to give her an order to let us go. And on and on and on...you don't want problems with your Business.