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No surprise title bills.

This is the star feature of our Assured tier: if your title needs cleared, we clear it. Non-litigation title issues, the ones that show up in almost every older chain of title, are handled as part of your engagement, not billed as a separate project. The price you signed up for is the price.

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More than title clearing

Title clearing is the headline. The hand-holding is why sellers choose Assured.

Selling a property is one of the largest transactions most people ever handle, and the waiting is often the hardest part. Assured is built for the seller who would rather ask the question than sit on it.

VIP Response Time means your questions jump to the front of the line, with same-business-day replies and access by email, text, or phone throughout your sale.

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Why sellers pick Assured

Objections come up. Assured means they're not a surprise.

In any meaningfully old chain of title, objections will come up: a missing release, a name discrepancy, an old judgment that was never cleared from the record. This isn't rare; it's the normal course of an Iowa closing.

Ordinarily, each of those objections is its own billable project, discovered after you're already under contract. Sellers regularly get surprised at this stage with work they didn't budget for and didn't see coming.

Assured removes that uncertainty. Because title clearing is built into the engagement, you know your number the day you sign the engagement letter, before the abstract is ever pulled.

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What's covered

The title issues we clear for you.

Assured covers the non-litigation title issues that can be resolved by drafting and filing the right document. No hearings, no court dates.

One distinction worth stating plainly: clearing covers our legal work, the documents, filings, and follow-through. If a lien or judgment has a balance owing, that balance isn't part of your fee. It's typically paid from your sale proceeds at closing, and we make sure it's handled correctly.

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Missing releasesA prior mortgage or lien was paid off, but the release was never filed on the record.
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Name discrepanciesA name appears differently across deeds, marriage records, or prior filings and needs to be reconciled.
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Satisfactions of old judgmentsA judgment against a prior owner was resolved but never formally satisfied on the record.
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Easement clarificationsAn easement on the property needs to be documented or clarified before closing.
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Plat-related cleanupsOld platting issues or boundary references that need to be corrected on the record.
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Anything cured by drafting and filingIf the fix is a document, a release, an affidavit, or a corrective deed, it's covered.

What's separate

Court-supervised matters are a separate engagement.

Some title problems can't be resolved with paperwork alone; they require a court proceeding. Those are outside the scope of Assured and quoted as their own engagement.

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Estate openings

Opening an estate to remove a deceased owner from title.

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Foreclosure filings

Filing or reopening a foreclosure action tied to the property.

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Quiet title actions

Court actions to resolve competing or unclear ownership claims.

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Other contested matters

Any litigated or disputed title matter outside standard desk work.

If your title looks like it might involve one of these, we tell you up front on the strategy call, not at the closing table.

Common questions

Questions about Assured.

Iowa sellers typically carry the abstract continuation cost and, in most cases, the cost of curing any title objections the buyer's attorney raises. With Assured, that clearing work is included in your engagement rather than billed as a separate project when an objection turns up.

You often won't know until the abstract is examined, and that's exactly the uncertainty Assured is built to remove. On your strategy call, we'll talk through your property's history, and if anything looks likely to require a court-supervised proceeding, we flag it right away rather than after the abstract comes back.

Assured includes the legal work to resolve non-litigation title problems, things like child support liens, judgment liens, deed defects, and missing mortgage releases. The amounts owed on any lien or judgment aren't part of our fee; those are typically paid from your sale proceeds at closing. Litigated matters, such as quiet title actions or partition actions, aren't included, and we'll identify those up front so there are no surprise costs later.

Matters like estate openings, foreclosure filings, and quiet title actions sit outside Assured's non-litigation title clearing. When a matter requires litigation, we refer you to a firm that focuses on those proceedings. We identify these possibilities up front, on the strategy call, so it's never a surprise added mid-transaction.

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