Trouble Obtaining Tax Certificates in a Timely Manner

[Peter Lysiak]

Hi BP community!

My partner and I are UC and our financing for the property has been approved. Unfortunately, it is taking the title company a very long time to obtain tax certs and thus we are "unable to close". It has taken over 3 weeks at this point. They also claim that we need a city inspection before releasing the tax certs, yet I have closed with a city inspection post close and have confirmed with the city that tax certs and a city inspection are independent. 

My question to the community is: has anyone run into this delay in obtaining tax certs? Is it due to COVID? Is there anything else I can be doing in order to obtain/release the tax certs? FYI; the city inspection is scheduled though that should never have impacted tax certs. 

Thanks!