Course Number: C801 - Online
Course Title: United States Land Titles
Course Level: Intermediate
IRWA Credit Units: 16 QEU / CEU*
*QEU (qualifying education units) and CEU (continuing education units)
Prerequisites: At least one year of professional right of way experience
Price: $415 USD for members / $520 USD for non-members
Course Description
Building upon prior professional knowledge, this course provides participants with information regarding the analysis of abstracts to determine who must execute a conveyance. Participants will become familiar with terminology such as title estates, covenants, liens, encumbrances, and contracts; and will also understand the preparation of chains of title from public records.
Credentialing
Topics
Course Tuition includes
Participant Manual (in PDF format; available for download)
Who should take this course
This course is recommended for right of way professionals and experienced land titles by profession individuals who are in the process of or working on title reports or abstracts of title. This course is not intended for individuals with extensive title company experience.
Anytime you purchase an online class at IRWA University, you have one year from the date of purchase to complete your class. After that time, the class will no longer be accessible. Your progress is saved, however, it is highly recommended that you finish the class as soon as possible from the date of purchase to ensure high retention and application rate of knowledge and skills learned.
All participants will receive a total of 2 attempts to pass the exam with a score of a 75% or better. If a passing grade is not achieved by the second attempt, the participant must re-purchase the class if he or she wishes to take the exam a third time. Please note, IRWA online classes are not approved for State QE or CE credit.
Course Title: United States Land Titles
Course Level: Intermediate
IRWA Credit Units: 16 QEU / CEU*
*QEU (qualifying education units) and CEU (continuing education units)
Prerequisites: At least one year of professional right of way experience
Price: $415 USD for members / $520 USD for non-members
Course Description
Building upon prior professional knowledge, this course provides participants with information regarding the analysis of abstracts to determine who must execute a conveyance. Participants will become familiar with terminology such as title estates, covenants, liens, encumbrances, and contracts; and will also understand the preparation of chains of title from public records.
Credentialing
- New SR/WA: An intermediate required course for the RWP certification.
- Industry: An intermediate required course for the Oil & Gas Pipeline and Electric & Utilities pathways of the RWP program.
- Specialist: An intermediate elective course for the R/W-NAC program.
Topics
- Public records
- Sources of title information
- Who can hold/transfer title
- Instruments and other means of transferring real estate interests
- When title passes
- Encumbrances
- Title search - developing the chain of title
- How to determine vesting from a chain of title
- How to identify encumbrances and how to clear title
- How to handle special situations - site inspection, discoveries, environmental impacts encroachments, divorce action, leasehold, interest and deaths
Course Tuition includes
Participant Manual (in PDF format; available for download)
Who should take this course
This course is recommended for right of way professionals and experienced land titles by profession individuals who are in the process of or working on title reports or abstracts of title. This course is not intended for individuals with extensive title company experience.
Anytime you purchase an online class at IRWA University, you have one year from the date of purchase to complete your class. After that time, the class will no longer be accessible. Your progress is saved, however, it is highly recommended that you finish the class as soon as possible from the date of purchase to ensure high retention and application rate of knowledge and skills learned.
All participants will receive a total of 2 attempts to pass the exam with a score of a 75% or better. If a passing grade is not achieved by the second attempt, the participant must re-purchase the class if he or she wishes to take the exam a third time. Please note, IRWA online classes are not approved for State QE or CE credit.