Ticor Title of Calif San Diego

I have been using Michelle at Ticor Title escrow for over 10 years and she is San Diego’s best escrow officer. Always calls back comes in early stays late closes escrows on time.
Thanks Jim Carmichael

I have been a Realtor since 1986 and a broker since 2001. I have used Ticor Escrow for many years now and am shocked by the negative reviews. My experience has been great. My calls are always received or returned promptly and the escrow officers I’ve worked with have been very experienced, helpful and polite. The title representatives have always been very helpful. I highly recommend Ticor.

As a full time Realtor, I have been using the Title services of Ticor for my primary Title Company recommendation since 2003. I have used them an averageof 7 times a year over the past 10 years. Title is different than Escrow, even though the company does both. Here I am talking about Title.
My experiences with them have gone very well. They have never caused a transaction to be late or not close at all. There can be problems on the title of any property. Title Company is in charge of insuring that title against many different types of claims. They have to investigate anything that may cause a problem down the road.
Have there been glitches & delays and extra proof required? YES, that is the nature of a title search and title insurance. Have they been handled professionally and courtiously? Yes. So I continue to recommend them? Yes. Especially the North County Coastal rep, Michelle Denys and Candy Church, the Title Officer.

Working with Ticor has been a complete nightmare. The arrogance and carelessness of the group of people we worked with absolutely blew my mind.
The buyer of our home chose to use them to handle the sale. The first sign that things weren’t going well came after they had to call my husband and myself back in to sign paperwork that they forgot to include in the original title documents. When we showed up to sign we were rudely told that they weren’t expecting us (even though they were the ones to call us in) and we would just have to wait until they had time to notarize our documents.
The next issue came when they refused to accept our receipt from San Diego County showing we had paid our property taxes and demanded that we provide them with a bank statement verifying that the money had cleared our account. Upon giving them what they asked for, the woman handling the transfer of funds said that she still wasn’t sure if that was adequate and if it wasn’t we would just have to wait 45 days for her company to process and transfer the proceeds from the sale of our home to the escrow of our new home purchase. What??? Luckily we were able to talk to someone capable of giving a clear answer and making a decision who promptly transfered our money over.
Where it stands now, we are still dealing with them to get the full amount from the sale of our home transfered over as they gave us an amount $ 1500 less than the amount we signed for and are blaming it on unspecified bank costs.
We went with First American for the purchase of our new home and have been very happy.

If you’re looking for a title company to work AGAINST you, not with you, (even though you’re paying for their service), and you’re looking for a title company that wants to play «GOD» in terms of deciding what San Diego County will and won’t accept, then this is the title company for you!
Probably the most arrogant, unhelpful, joke of a title company who talks out of both sides of their mouth, and tells you one thing yet does another.
You can read my ordeal here:

Ticor is a nightmare. They did my neighbor’s closing and put my lot on their title. I did not find out about this until I recently tried to refi my own loan and this was discovered in a title search. My rate lock was set to expire the next week and all they could say was ‘oops’. You think if they made a mistake they would jump on this and try to fix it immediately.
Completely pathetic. Buying a home is the biggest transaction you will ever make. Don’t leave it in the hands of an incompetent title company that will not even try to correct their mistakes. I’m sure you might get your title done correctly with them, but if it doesn’t…well you’re on your own.

Ask for Nikki Lam…
There’s alot of title reps that you can choose from.
I like Nikki because she’s very friendly, always smiling, youngest of the bunch (I know the feeling), and she doesn’t push too hard asking for title.
Her style is very similar to how I work!