About
Piñon Hills Title handles title, escrow and settlement across San Juan County, from an office in Farmington. What follows is how the work gets done.
What the work is
Functionally: we examine title, hold funds and documents in escrow, satisfy the requirements of lenders and the county, and record the instruments that move property from one owner to another.
Underneath that, the job is to make someone’s relationship to a property certain — and to keep the complexity of getting there off their desk. A transaction begins with people trying to get somewhere. Between the agreement and the recorded deed are dozens of details, documents, requirements, deadlines and other people.
We bring order to that. We communicate, anticipate, coordinate, protect and resolve, and we stay with the file until the commitment made at the beginning is real and on the record.
What we hold ourselves to
- Connection
- A transaction runs on people depending on each other — buyer, seller, agent, lender, escrow officer, county. Our job is to keep those connections working, which mostly means telling people things before they have to ask.
- Stability
- Real estate goes sideways quickly. When it does, you should be able to tell that someone capable is already dealing with it. Calm is not a personality trait here. It is the product of having seen the problem before.
- Certainty
- Ownership is the point. Details, documents and money get the seriousness that implies, and we would rather be exact than agreeable.
- Momentum
- We do not sell speed — speed sounds like corners. What we hold ourselves to is momentum: files that do not sit, questions that do not wait, problems identified rather than discovered. Deliberate where accuracy matters, responsive where time does.
- Endurance
- The transaction takes weeks. What it establishes can last generations. We work to the second timeline.
Who we work with
- Buyers and sellers
- Real estate agents and brokers
- Mortgage lenders and brokers
- Builders and developers
- Investors and 1031 exchangers
- Attorneys, trustees and estate representatives
Where we work
San Juan County, from Farmington. Deeds record with the San Juan County Clerk.
Farmington · Aztec · Bloomfield · Kirtland · Flora Vista · Fruitland · Waterflow · Shiprock · Blanco · Navajo Dam · La Plata · Crouch Mesa
If a property sits outside the county, call anyway. We will either help or tell you who should.