An owner’s title policy protects you from problems in the property’s past — forged deeds, missing heirs and old liens. Here is what it covers and what it does not.
Adverse possession lets someone claim land they never bought. Here are the five elements, the 3-, 5-, 10- and 25-year clocks, and how Texas owners stop them.
A management company that faces the public and a holding company that quietly owns the assets: how the two-company structure protects Texas real estate investors.
A valid Texas deed must be in writing, signed by the grantor, and delivered with intent to convey. Recording is what protects that ownership against the world.
A certified-mail envelope arrives from your mortgage lender. Maybe you’ve been avoiding the mailbox. Maybe you’re hoping it will work itself out. Here’s what you
If you’ve bought or sold a home in Texas recently, someone checked a box for you — Paragraph 7.D.(1) of the TREC contract — and
Every real estate investor knows the landlord’s life: leaky pipes, midnight phone calls, tenants, and toilets. But there’s another side of real estate — the