Why choose a locally owned title company?

Title and escrow is local work: the records, the recorders, the surveyors, and the property itself are all here in Kootenai and Bonner counties. A locally owned title company knows the ground: the plats and subdivisions, the lakefront and rural parcels, the access and water-rights quirks of North Idaho, and the people at the County Recorder and assessor’s offices who help resolve a problem quickly. Decisions are made in the office you can walk into, not at a corporate headquarters in another state, and the escrow officer handling your closing is part of the same community you are buying into. Kootenai Title Company has been doing exactly this work here since 1974, and it is the only 100% locally owned title company serving both Kootenai and Bonner counties. For most buyers and sellers the cost is comparable to a national chain. The difference is local knowledge and accountability.