Escrow Out Loud: San Francisco Real Estate

Welcome to another episode of Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco Real Estate podcast. Join us again this week for the second half of our discussion about title insurance when buying a home in San Francisco. We introduce title and escrow insurance in episode 53, Question That Answer.[00:21] Picking up where we left off in Episode 53 with items that are found on a title report, Britton begins with another example of a defect in title insurance: a mechanic's lien. Britton introduces the idea of a mechanic's lien and gives a theoretical example of how this might come about. A preliminary title report is designed and supposed to show everything that is recorded in the legal public record against the property. Things that may be recorded in the public record are items like a mechanic's lien, existing owner's tax bill and/or mortgages, unpaid utility bills for utilities like garbage or water, CC&Rs for a condo, to give a few examples. These things are typically called exceptions - think of them like pre-existing