Fee Sheet.
Empower Your Real Estate Decisions
Guidance for Agent-Assisted Purchases: When partnering with a real estate agent for your purchase or sale, the choice of your settlement agent is yours to make. Ensure that your choice of closing attorney is clearly articulated in the purchase agreement from the very beginning. We recommend making your decision with commitment and foresight to avoid anything that can disrupt a smooth closing experience.
Navigating "For Sale By Owner" with Confidence: Going the "For Sale By Owner" route? You have the unique opportunity to direct your closing process. We suggest incorporating a clause in your purchase agreement that specifies your chosen settlement agent. If you're uncertain about crafting this agreement, let us lend you our expertise.
Your Rights During Refinancing: Remember, when it comes to refinancing, you're in the driver's seat. Federal law backs your freedom to select your closing agent. This is your transaction, your refinance, your choice.
Your Independence, Your Advantage
Whether it’s a new home purchase, a private sale, or refinancing your current property, making an independent choice for your closing agent is critical. It’s your financial future, unswayed by hidden affiliations, undisclosed partnerships, or promotional enticements that could otherwise impact your closing costs. Choose transparency, choose fairness, choose with your best interests at heart.
Take Charge Today
Initiate your transaction with clarity and control. Our fee calculator is designed to give you a transparent estimate, helping you make an informed and empowered decision. For a closing process that respects your autonomy and your wallet, start with us.
Tips for Closing
Just for Buyers
Homeowner's Insurance...
It is always important to have hazard insurance in place in advance so at the conclusion of the closing your property is insured. If you are obtaining financing, your lender will typically require proof of insurance before finalizing the closing. However, in all cash closings, buyers should have insurance in place before closing. It is common for the premium to be either paid in advance or collected and paid by the closing attorney.
About that Land Survey...
A land survey must be ordered well in advance of closing to have the results available prior to closing. Contact us early in the process to coordinate for you. Surveyors generally collect their fee before the survey work is performed.
Just for Sellers
Affected by Divorce, Death or Distress?
If there is any chance that a divorce, death or distress situation affects your property, please contact us, since these types of issues may affect the marketability of title to the real estate you are selling.
Am I Subject to Georgia Withholding Tax?
If you are not a Georgia Resident, you may be subject to Georgia Withholding Tax.
Power of Attorney
A power of attorney is an instrument where one person, a principal, appoints another person as agent to perform certain acts on the principal's behalf. However, third parties may be under no legal obligation to accept a proffered power of attorney.
If you are buying, selling or refinancing property and would like to use a power of attorney for your closing, please contact us. We are happy to prepare the form for you, or evaluate an existing form, as well as have it approved by the title insurer and lender (where applicable). Title insurers have strict requirements when working with principals through agents. The requirements vary for each of the following categories of transactions—
Real Estate Purchasers for Cash.
Purchase or Refinance Loans.
Sellers of Real Estate.
Please note that the law requires us to verify the principal at the time a power of attorney is used. Because principals are often not available for verification, we are always willing to explore alternative options.