2 Year Director for TSPS Chapter 5

Richard Ortiz

Work Related Experience and Skills:
North Texas Chapter Area Representative at State Level for TSPS.

2 year Director for TSPS Chapter 5.

20 years experience in Real Estate Title Research. Efficiently Examine and Cure Title Assignment issues, etc., Run Title Reports using the GRS Indexing System and contracting work to various title vendors. Familiar with Lien Positions, Mineral Rights, Lease Hold Property, Life Estates, Bankruptcy, Foreclosures, Property Settlement Agreements in a Divorce Decree, Probates, and gathering Tax information from the different Taxing entities (County, City and School). Experienced reading metes and bounds legal descriptions and I am able to understand what a Surveyor and Civil Engineer needs to complete a project. Gathered easement and restriction information, researched out of the Dallas County Map Room, researched recorded plats and adjoiners, Tx.Dot Right-Of- Way information and City Utility Information.

Employment History:

Courthouse Research Specialists (Real Property Research, Commercial and Residential)

4/1/2010 to Present

Owner/Operator

Lone Star Record & Abstract Services, Inc. (Real Property Research, Commercial and Residential)

10-2-04 to 4/1/2010

Owner/Operator

Precise Land Records(Real Property Research, Commercial and Residential)

8-2-03to 10-1-04

Co-Owner of the company; dealt with everyday activities from problems solving to answering the telephone and research title through out the North Texas area, Louisiana and Oklahoma

First American Title Company (LendersAdvantage Division)

1-2-02 to 8-1-03

Supervised the Lewisville Texas Post Closing Department for the Refinance Department and REO Department.

Examined and cured Title for the Curative Department as a Senior Curative Officer. Read Title Commitments and resolved various Title issues from vesting to delinquent property taxes prior to closing nation wide. In June 2002 I excepted a Supervisors position in the Post Closing Department resolving post vesting issues, unrecorded mortgages, lost documents and document procurement. Researching and requesting shortage errors on the HUD 1 and Settlement Statements. Resolved escalated issues between borrowers and New Lenders to complete new closings, (Letters of Indemnity) and heavy customer service relations.

Courthouse Research Specialist “CRS”: (Real Property Research, Commercial and Residential)

04/1994 to 01/2002

Owner of the company; dealt with everyday activities from problems solving to answering the telephone and research title through out the North Texas area.

Dallas Record & Abstract Service: (Real Property Research)

06/1988 to 04/1994

Real Property Abstractor/ Examiner Four Years Supervisor Experience

Ran Title Reports out of the Dallas County Records Building, Examined Title and Supervised the Engineering and Surveying Department for the Dallas County Branch