It is very important to order a survey.
Most lenders do not require a survey anymore so it is optional for you.
The closing attorney’s office will order the survey upon your request.
This information is from Jill Elliott’s website, a closing attorney friend of Rhonda’s. Here is her take on the issue.
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Please go to http://www.housingwatch.com/2010/08/18/home-listings-only-half-of-last-years-have-sold/ to read it!
This article is talking about the Supra Blue electronic boxes that are placed on listings, usually on the front door. The lockbox holds the key to the house and will open for an real estate agent when the agent has updated their password to get into the house. As the agent requests a password update over their telephone modem, it also submits what lockbox and listing the agent has seen and what time they entered the home. Read the rest of this entry »
Read the Department of Justice’s opinion of the Buyer Cash At Closing program and how it effects buyers:
Before Closing
1. Order your optional survey within 7 days of closing.
2. Decide if you want owner’s title insurance. Tell the closing attorney at closing or before.
3. Order Homeowner’s Insurance – call the closing attorney at least 7 days before closing with your insurance agent’s name and phone number.
Hand deliver the original policy to closing.
4. Get your cashier’s check – Closing attorneys are not allowed to take personal checks higher than $ 4,999.00. So, just take a cashier’s check made payable to yourself for any amount to be safe. You will endorse the check to the law firm at closing. The law does not allow any of the following: out of state attorney’s checks, money market checks, credit union checks or any title company checks, in or out of the state of Georgia.
Most attorneys will take a local attorney’s escrow check from a prior closing.
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