Real Estate Title Abstractor / Real Estate Underwriter
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Position Overview We’re seeking a Real Estate Title Abstractor / Real Estate Underwriter to join our global research division. This is a full-time (40+ hours/week) remote position focused on title-based research and genealogical family tree analysis for U.S. properties. You’ll be responsible for identifying rightful heirs, constructing family trees, verifying documentation, and supporting our acquisition and legal teams as they work to clear and acquire complex titles.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Title Abstracting & Examination
- Pull complete title chains from county clerk databases, archives, microfilm, deed books, and online portals.
2. Curative Title Work
- Determine required curative documents (corrective deeds, affidavits, releases, disclaimers, probate filings, etc.).
- Contact attorneys, heirs, lienholders, HOAs, and agencies to resolve issues.
- Prepare curative explanations and documentation for title companies.
- Collaborate with internal team on strategy for fractional buyouts and acquisition.
3. Probate & Heirship Research
- Review probate files, wills, inventories, and court dockets.
- Apply Texas intestacy and other state inheritance laws to map ownership.
- Build Basic and Advanced Family Trees to identify rightful heirs.
- Confirm heir relationships through death certificates, obituaries, census data, and public records.
4. Investigative / Private-Detective Style Research
- Locate missing heirs, owners, and stakeholders through skip tracing, online records, and investigative tools.
- Use databases for people-search, litigation history, tax data, and property connections.
- Verify identity and ownership through multi-source cross-checking.Who You Are
- Abstract instruments including deeds, liens, judgments, probates, releases, easements, plats, and agreements.
- Identify breaks in chain, missing links, wild deeds, ownership conflicts, and curative needs.
- Build accurate Chain-of-Title Reports, Ownership Reports, and Title Defect Summaries.
- You have strong English reading and writing skills.
- You love solving puzzles—especially when they involve people, families, and records.
- You are detail-obsessed and have a researcher’s mindset.
- You can work independently with minimal supervision.
- You enjoy finding answers others can’t.
Tools You Should Already Know (or Be Ready to Master)
Primary Tools:Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, Legacy.com, FindAGrave, Newspapers.com, IDI, BeenVerified, TruePeopleSearch, PublicData.com, Google Sheets.
Required
- Experience in title abstracting, title examination, or curative title work (Texas preferred but not required).
- Ability to read and understand deeds, probates, legal descriptions, liens, and court records.
- Strong investigative and research skills.
- Extreme attention to detail — accuracy is everything.
- Problem-solving mindset: able to reverse-engineer complicated ownership puzzles.
- Ability to work across multiple counties and systems.
- Exceptional communication skills (written and verbal).
- High personal accountability — a “no excuses”, ownership-driven work ethic.
Preferred
- Experience with probate, heirship, or genealogical research.
- Familiarity with Texas Property Code & Estates Code.
- Background in real estate law, title company work, or paralegal experience.
- Comfort working in fast-paced, high-complexity environments.
Reporting & Collaboration
- Reports directly to the Research Manager.
- Works cross-functionally with the Legal, Marketing, and Sales teams to ensure heir identification leads to actionable acquisitions.
Compensation & Growth
- Clear growth path to Sr Researcher or Research Manager, based on accuracy, initiative, and leadership.
- Opportunity to learn real estate law, probate systems, and title resolution from industry experts.
Why Join Us?Work That Matters
- You’ll help families unlock trapped equity, resolve long-standing disputes, and bring dormant properties back to life.
High-Growth Environment
- We solve some of the hardest problems in real estate — which means constant learning, new challenges, and upward mobility.
Entrepreneurial, Supportive Team
- You’ll work alongside researchers, genealogists, skip-trace experts, sales negotiators, attorneys, and curative specialists.
Flexible Remote Work
- Manage your time and workflow while maintaining high accountability and output.
Career Development
Opportunities to grow into:
- Legal/ Property Research + 30% Sales
- Legal/ Property Research + 30% Transactions
- Legal/ Property Research + 30% Data & Ai Implementation
About UsWe’re a fast-growing real estate and title resolution company that specializes in unlocking value from properties tangled in legal or family complications, probate, missing heirs, broken chains of title, liens, and ownership disputes. We help families and heirs convert dormant or inherited properties into opportunity. Our mission is to restore clarity, resolve legacy issues, and bring properties back to life.
Pay: $40,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year
Application Question(s):
- You pull a chain of title and discover a 12-year gap where no deed was recorded, followed by a conveyance from someone who may not have had legal authority to sell. Walk me through your step-by-step process:
- A property owner died intestate in Texas, leaving three children from two different relationships, one deceased child with two surviving grandchildren, and no probate filed.
- How many years of experience do you have working within US Property Title ?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Austin, TX 78756
