Position: Escrow Officer Texas (Must have Texas Escrow Officer License)-Remote Role
Qualifications
Required Knowledge/Skills
- Demonstrates ability to handle a Real Estate transaction from receipt of contract through disbursement
- Knowledge of title insurance, regulatory guidelines, legal documents, and real property law
- Driven to efficiently use technology to streamline processes
- Working knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office
- Prior ResWare or similar title and escrow production software experience
Responsibilities
Examination / Curative
- Examines title commitments for accuracy and identify any requirements, defects and exceptions and work to clear the issues timely while effectively notating all systems to track progress.
- Ordering title, payoffs, estoppels, and other searches and documentation
- Reviewing title commitments, sales contracts and other related documents relating to residential real estate transactions for compliance and accuracy
Preparation
- Assemble, prepare, and review closing documents
- Prepare, distribute, and file final closing documents
- Preparing Closing Disclosures, settlement statements, conveyance and other settlement documents necessary to complete closing transactions
- Balancing the closing disclosure or settlement statements
Closing
- Schedule, coordinate and conduct closings
- Obtaining and preparing information needed to close a transaction
- Working closely and coordinating closing transactions with clients, lenders, Realtors, staff, and any other relevant parties to ensure a proper timely closing transaction
- Prepare closing disclosure/HUD and other closing documentation
- Confirm all funds are collected, all appropriate documents are checked for accuracy, signatures are collected, and acknowledgements and legal descriptions are correct.
- Completes closing transaction documents by assembling documents; reviewing papers with parties; explaining provisions and procedures; answering questions; checking documents for completeness and accuracy; obtaining signatures
Disbursement
- Oversee the issuance of checks, bills and statements, and receipts associated with the closing process.
- Establish escrow accounts by depositing funds and maintaining records
- Closes escrow account by balancing and disbursing funds
Education
- BA or equivalent work experience
- Current Notary
- Current and active TX Escrow Officer license
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