You just bought your first home and you are all excited, now it's time to go to your closing. You walk into the room and then you realize, you have no clue who is sitting in the room with you! Besides your agent and mortgage lender, many other individuals/companies have been busy doing research on your behalf, reviewing and preparing documents. It’s on your closing day that you will possibly meet some of them face to face. The main players, though, involved in the closing are the title agency, attorney and the notary public. The Title Agency The real estate title agency has several different roles in the closing process. It should always be noted that the title company, and its agents, are impartial service providers. One of our duties as a title agency is to put together an abstract of the property. The abstract explains in abundant detail the location and history of the property and as part of this, a survey may be ordered. A title search is also conducted which will identi...