What is a "Chain of Title Investigation?"
A Chain of Title Investigation is an attempt to establish a clear and unbroken chronological record of ownership for a specific piece of property for the current homeowner. This investigation attempts to establish or trace the successive conveyances of title or endorsements, starting with the current Deed of Trust and going forward through the securitization process. Each lender is linked to the previous lender, and to any subsequent lenders, through transfers and endorsements, forming a chain of title as disclosed through various public and private databases.
This is tantamount to establishing a Chain of Custody . 'Chain of Custody' refers to the chronological documentation or paper trail (endorsements, assignments and or/any allonges) clearly showing the seizure, custody, control, transfer, analysis and disposition of title to property.
Our Chain of Title Investigation is conducted by Texas State Licensed Private Investigators who will do a complete, thorough and competent Investigation into both public and private documents concerning a homeowner's property.
Public Records Investigation includes investigation of all public records regarding a homeowner's property.
Background checks on individuals who signed those documents are conducted to ascertain the validity of the individual themselves. Many times we find that these individuals, in fact, are robo-signers , are bankrupt, never had a state-issued ID, have multiple social security numbers, have multiple birth-dates, have multiple aliases, and/or are disbarred attorneys acting as trustees. In one instance we even found that legal documents were being signed in one state by an "individual" who had passed away three years earlier in another state.
The documents filed into the county records with these individuals' signatures have compromised the integrity of the banking system, judicial system and the county records system.
In order to establish what the homeowner's chain of title should look like, our "Real Property Asset Securities Audit " is conducted to establish the movement of the mortgage in the secondary securities market and shows the Private Investigator what the public records are supposed to be regarding the transfer and "true sale" from one entity to another.
In addition, your Private Investigator, using your private pre-closing, closing and post-closing documents, will also have a NAMU Certified Forensic Loan Auditor conduct a Forensic Mortgage Loan Audit to ascertain whether State and Federal Consumer protection laws, rules and regulations were followed during the origination of the mortgage, and that the mortgage was perfected so as to create an enforceable lien instrument.
*** For all of our client homeowners who are already in foreclsoure, we will have the foreclosure thoroughly investigated to validate the integrity and status of the individuals who are pursuing the foreclosure. ***