Interview with Kevin Plotkin from Express Title Services and Plotkin Law Firm. Founder and real estate attorney Kevin D. Plotkin, Esq. focuses on the representation of buyers and sellers in residential and commercial real estate transactions. Mr. Plotkin regularly trains real estate professionals on all aspects of real estate transactions including, among other topics, contracts and closings.

Interview Transcript

Boss Construction Group, your South Florida permanent code compliance specialist this is one of my cool interviews that I like to do with a good friend and colleague of mine Kevin Plotkin with Xpress title what’s up man hey ben ghazi oh yeah grill you for being here yeah thanks for having us we’ve we actually worked together on so many cases which is interesting and then through that we we understand consistent problems that we’re seeing really early on in my resolution days how long have you been in the business for well we’ve had our own company now for seven years that’s awesome yeah and obviously I have a lot of experience prior to having my own company so been doing this for a long time now tell me again I’ve heard most agents out there my family’s agents again you’re an attorney owned and operated title company yeah what is what does that mean for your clients it means a lot so we have an affiliated law firm Plotkin law firm and Express Title Services is our title company both in the same office and in Florida believe it or not you don’t have to be an attorney to have a title company which to me is crazy I still see how crazy that is because when we’re dealing with companies on the other side that are not attorney owned and operated it makes the job more difficult because a lot of times they are not doing things properly and we have to hold their hand through the transaction and as an attorney from a legal standpoint I’m putting out fires and real estate deals left and right all the time from a legal perspective so when that’s not present I don’t know how that happens in fact I will I do know it doesn’t happen it’s crazy and sometimes they need to go to outside companies or when when the going gets tough and legal situations arise whether it’s a contractual issue between the parties or whether it’s a title condition that’s overly burdensome and we need to from a legal standpoint explain to the title underwriter why it’s unnecessary I’ve we are able to do that in-house and get deals closed where others couldn’t but when there’s not an attorney involved and those situations arise well then they’re stuck and they need to go to a different company now and they all of a sudden need to find outside counsel and start scrambling around for other professionals to get involved whereas with an attorney owned and operated title company were already there I’ve seen with some of the non attorney owned and operated some of them have in-house attorneys but then it was very interesting to me that and I got this feedback from other people that once they had to bring in the other attorney that was on top and more money and you’re a one-stop shop exactly so you get the benefit our fees are very competitive we charge less actually than some non attorney owned and operated title companies so with us you’re getting that benefit wrapped in into one service let’s talk about because a lot of our viewers are South Florida property owners real estate professionals people selling their property let’s just talk about the the contract hmm anything you know in again in relation to knowing about permitting and code violations early what can people also put in their contract to protect themselves if they’re the buyer the seller can you go over some of those things absolutely so you menti