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Policy Comparison

There are three primary types of owner’s policy: standard, ALTA, and Extended. Each policy protects against different risks and comes at a different price. The chart below sets out the risks covered by each policy type. If you would like to get a quote, please click here to get a quote tailored to your particular circumstances and needs.

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ALTA Standard Policy ALTA Homeowner's Policy
1. Someone else owns an interest in your title. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
2. Someone else has rights affecting your title due to leases, contracts or options. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
3. Someone else claims rights due to forgery or impersonation. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
4. Someone else has an easement on the land. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
5. Someone else has a right to limit your use of the land. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
6. Your title is defective.   green bullet indicator
7. Any of Covered Risks 1 through 6 occurring after the Policy Date.   green bullet indicator
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Someone else has a lien on your title, including a:

  1. mortgage;
  2. judgment, state or federal tax lien, or special assessment;
  3. charge by a homeowner's or condominium association;
  4. mechanic's lien for labor or materials furnished before policy date.
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9. Someone else has an encumbrance on your title. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
10. Someone else claims rights affecting your title due to fraud, duress, incompetency or incapacity. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
11. You do not have both actual vehicular and pedestrian access, based upon legal right.   green bullet indicator
12. You are forced to correct or remove an existing violation of any CC&R, even if the CC&R is excepted in Schedule B. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
13. Your title is lost or taken because of a violation of any CC&R, which occurred before you acquired title, even if the CC&R is excepted in Schedule B.   green bullet indicator
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Because of an existing violation of a subdivision law or regulation:

  1. you are unable to obtain a building permit;
  2. you are forced to correct or remove the violation; or
  3. someone else refuses to perform a contract to purchase the land, lease it, or make a mortgage loan on it.
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15. You are forced to remove or remedy your existing structures—other than boundary walls or fences—because any portion was built without a building permit.   green bullet indicator
16. You are forced to remove or remedy your existing structures, because they violate an existing zoning law or zoning regulation. If you are forced to remedy your existing structures, the coverage is subject to a deductible and a maximum liability amount. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
17. You cannot use the land, because use as a single-family residence violates an existing zoning law or regulation.   green bullet indicator
18. You are forced to remove your existing structures because they encroach onto your neighbor's land. If the encroaching structures are boundary walls or fences, the coverage is subject to a deductible and a maximum liability amount. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
19. Someone has a legal right to, and does refuse to purchase the land, lease it, or make a mortgage on it, because your neighbor's existing structures encroach onto the land.   green bullet indicator
20. You are forced to remove your existing structures because they encroach onto an easement or over a building setback line, even if the easement or building setback line is excepted in Schedule B.   green bullet indicator
21. Your existing structures are damaged because of the exercise of a right to maintain or use any easement affecting the land, even if the easement is excepted in Schedule B.   green bullet indicator
22. Your existing improvements are damaged because of the future exercise of a right to use the surface of the land for the extraction or development of minerals, water or any other substance, even if those rights are excepted or reserved from the description of the land or from Schedule B.   green bullet indicator
23. Someone else tries to enforce a discriminatory CC&R, based upon race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.   green bullet indicator
24. A taxing authority assesses supplemental real estate taxes not previously assessed for any period before the Policy Date, because of the construction or a change of ownership or use that occurred before the Policy Date.   green bullet indicator
25. Your neighbor builds any structures after the Policy Date—other than boundary walls or fences—which encroach onto the land.   green bullet indicator
26. Your title is unmarketable, which allows someone else to refuse to perform a contract to purchase the land, lease it or make a mortgage loan on it.   green bullet indicator
27. A document upon which your title is based is invalid because it was not properly signed, sealed, acknowledged, delivered or recorded. bullet indicator green bullet indicator
28. The residence with the address shown in Schedule A is not located on the land at the policy date.   green bullet indicator
29. The map, if any, attached to this policy does not show the correct location of the land according to the public records.   green bullet indicator
30. Any facts, rights, interests or claims not shown by the public records, but which could be shown by an inspection of the land or asserted by persons in possession.   green bullet indicator
31. Easements, except underground easements, not shown by the public records.   green bullet indicator