Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers

Key skills

A typical day

• •Examine documentation such as mortgages, liens, judgments, easements, plat books, maps, contracts, and agreements to verify factors such as properties' legal descriptions, ownership, or restrictions.
• •Examine individual titles to determine if restrictions, such as delinquent taxes, will affect titles and limit property use.
• •Prepare reports describing any title encumbrances encountered during searching activities and outlining actions needed to clear titles.
• •Copy or summarize recorded documents, such as mortgages, trust deeds, and contracts, that affect property titles.
• •Verify accuracy and completeness of land-related documents accepted for registration, preparing rejection notices when documents are not acceptable.

Fields of study

Any field