Tag Archives: title insurance in New York

Caveat Emptor When Buying Homeowners Insurance (and Title Insurance too)!

Insurance To Protect Your Home: Educate, Educate, Educate! Whether you currently own a home or will become a homeowner in the near future, more likely than not (and 100% if you have a mortgage) a homeowners insurance policy will be purchased to protect against the damage that can be inflicted by such risks as flood, […]

A Pox On Both Of Their Houses – Mercutio! (Opinion)

I am not a politician, but instead the owner of a title insurance company in New York who deeply believes in each and every one of the terms in the photo above! As a business owner I have a responsibility to my family, my employees, my vendors, my clients and myself, to do as much as I […]

Are New York Real Estate Attorneys All The Same?

  Of course they’re not, in much the same way that mortgage brokers, real estate agents or pizza parlors, etc. are not all the same! And, yes, this includes title insurance providers too. Great real estate attorneys might only handle this one aspect of the law, while some other phenomenal real estate attorneys may also […]

Stop Property Thieves From Stealing Your Home in New York City, Nassau County or Suffolk County…For Free!

No-Cost Alternative for Avoiding Home Title Fraud in New York City, Nassau County or Suffolk County! You’ve seen or heard the commercials that extol the need to pay about $15 a month to protect your home from fraudsters out to put their name on your deed, steal your home and leave you with nothing! Or […]

New York Real Estate Closings – Virtual is a Reality!

Virtually Close Your New York Real Estate Transactions (with virtual notarizations)! Residential and Commercial Real Estate Closings WITH Virtual Notarizations, Can Now Occur in New York Through May 7, 2020! (Update 12/21/2020: The EO authorizing virtual notarizations has been extended and is in effect now) During these very difficult times, thanks to the Executive Order […]

Mortgage Shopping: Ten Questions You May Have For Your Mortgage Loan Officer!

Money tree for borrowers

  With the 10-year treasury crossing below .75% this morning, potential homebuyers and those on the fence about refinancing may hop off, and pursue a mortgage loan! In other words, with rates at current levels are banks and other lending institutions offering borrowers the opportunity to basically ‘pick money off of the proverbial money tree’? […]

Hallmark Abstract Service: Our Laser Focus Is On YOU And YOUR Real Estate Transactions Success!

Hallmark Abstract NY title insurance

In Every Transaction Hallmark Abstract Serves Two Major Constituencies While Focusing On One Overriding Mission! The overriding mission and laser-focus of Hallmark Abstract Service when entrusted with the title insurance portion of a residential or commercial real estate transaction, is very simple… Ensuring that the buyer will never have an issue with a third party attempting […]

Title Insurance, Consumer Protection And Beating A Dead Horse!

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Over the years Hallmark Abstract Service has strived to educate the real estate buying community in New York about what they need to know about the title insurance they will be purchasing in the course of their commercial or residential transaction!  The firm has written many articles that stress some of the critical title insurance issues that they, […]

New York State Real Estate Attorney’s And Mortgage Originators…Do You Have A VIABLE Title Insurance Plan B?

Argentina 2018 World Cup

During the 2018 World Cub the perennial soccer giant Argentina sat on the ‘brink of elimination, desperately needing both a Plan A AND a Plan B! Speaking to the strategy being employed by Argentina’s coach Jorge Sampaoli, an article in The New York Times had the following to say, ‘…There was no plan B, to be used […]

In Business Nothing Lasts Forever But Change, While Unsettling, Can Often Be A Good Thing!

Zorn

Opening the Business section of Long Island’s Newsday this morning imagine my shock to read the following headline: ‘REPLACING 1940 FOOD HOME‘ with a photo of Zorn’s Poultry Farm in the background! As someone who picks-up food from Zorn’s of Bethpage when I’m in the neighborhood, whenever we have guests at the house or for […]