Land Acquisition
Title for Closings™
TitleforClosings.com — founded by Kimberly Smith, M.P.A., R.P.L., Georgia Real Estate Agent. National title expertise in over 50 courthouses in four states, moving your projects to closing and acquisition.
Pricing
Research & service rates
Oil and gas production checks
Land records
What we do
Expertise that makes a connection.
Commercial Title
Our team has a high level of commercial title skills assisting you with your commercial closing.
Broadband Title
Title for broadband projects — we identify the surface title so your team can move quickly.
Electric & Utility
Add our team to your contractors to identify surface owners along an entire line — with phone numbers, addresses, and emails — to expedite Right of Way acquisition and leasing. Instruments verified with city and county tax offices and appraisers; data added directly back into LIMS. Turnkey services include Phase I and Phase II Environmental ESA and Geotechnical Services.
Pipelines
Title for pipeline developments across the United States.
At a glance
Focus and goals
- A decade of real property title work in Georgia, Texas, New Mexico, and West Virginia; due diligence on large-scale projects, preparing title for legal review, Title Commitments, and Title Opinions.
- Familiar with Warranty Deeds, Limited Warranty Deeds, subrogation, plats, judgements, mechanics liens, probates, mortgages, contracts, easements, plat books, indices, daily register, metes and bounds, Deeds of Trust, Security Deeds, and Right of Way.
- Reports that make it easier to add data directly into Ramquest or other software to produce Title Commitments, ICL/CPL, E&O, and other letters and contracts.
- Reports describing title encumbrances found while searching, outlining actions needed to cure title.
- Delinquent taxes, liens, foreclosures, UPPO, delinquent tax lawsuits, and missing tax bills.
- Analysis of legal descriptions, metes and bounds, Deed Plotter, and plats; investigation of property value and property exception discrepancies.
- GIS mapping experience and work with local, state, and federal databases — Georgia GSCCCA, Bureau of Land Management, public land databases, New Mexico and other state-wide databases, Texas Railroad Commission, and Google Earth.
- Title examination and acquisition of over 73 miles of Right of Way across three Permian Basin counties in West Texas for Kinder Morgan.
- Projects for NASDAQ-traded companies including Devon Energy, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Energen, Range Resources, Clayton Williams Energy, and Linn Energy, plus privately held mid-size companies.
- Title examination, data acquisition, and interpretation of over $400MM of subsurface property, confirming leasehold, mineral, and working-interest holdings.
- Closed over $2MM of oil and gas leases and acquisitions for private estates; consultant to law offices nationwide on private oil and gas estates.
- Trained on the LIMS database in Georgia; walked electric transmission lines and negotiated right of way and easements with electric companies in two states.
Services
Commercial, broadband, electric & utility, and pipeline title
Expert witness
Expert witness for legal cases
When lawsuits take place, experienced landmen and title professionals are needed as expert witnesses. Kimberly Smith, BA, RPL, MPA — Registered Professional Landman with title work in over 50 courthouses — supports legal teams with title, land, leasing, and right-of-way expertise.
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Meet Kimberly Smith
Kimberly Smith brings together energy industry relationships, communications expertise, and a commitment to connecting people. Her work bridges the energy community, the media, and the public.
M.P.A., Georgia College · B.A., Baylor University
Effective Energy Acquisition begins with a conversation.
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