Title clearing included — no extra fee (the star of the package)
This is the headline feature of Assured and it's the reason most sellers pick this tier.
Iowa sellers carry the abstract continuation cost and almost always carry the cost of curing any title objections the buyer's attorney raises. In a "normal" engagement, every objection that needs to be cleared — a missing release, a name discrepancy, an old judgment, a heir-property cleanup — comes with an additional fee. In Assured, we don't bill that work separately. If your title needs cleared, we clear it. The price you signed up for is the price.
This is why sellers pick Assured. The buyer's attorney is the one issuing objections to your title. In any meaningfully old chain of title, there will be objections. Sellers regularly get surprised at this stage of a transaction with bills they didn't budget for — sometimes thousands of dollars in unexpected legal work. Assured eliminates that surprise. You know your number when you sign the engagement letter, and that number doesn't move because the abstract turned up something old.
Non-litigation title clearing. The work an attorney does at a desk, not in a courtroom. Missing releases, name discrepancies, satisfactions of old judgments, easement clarifications, plat-related cleanups — anything cured by drafting and filing the right document. That's what's included.
Court-supervised proceedings. Opening an estate to remove a deceased owner from title, filing or reopening a foreclosure, quiet title actions, and other contested or litigation matters are separate engagements at a separate fee. Most Iowa sales don't need any of that. On the strategy call we'll tell you if your title looks like it might — so you know up front, not at the closing table.
