Comparison

$59 and minutes, vs a national search built for breadth.

ProTitleUSA and the national services do real work. On a single Miami-Dade deal, here’s where a county-deep report beats them — and where you still want a title company.

The national services run a search anywhere in the country, and ProTitleUSA — probably the best-known — does careful work. That reach is genuinely useful across state lines. The trade-off shows up on one Miami-Dade parcel: a national search is built for breadth, so it leans on the standard recorded-document search and sells the local, Dade-specific risk as add-ons — or leaves it out. We went the other way: one county, everything in. Here’s the honest side-by-side.

What a national search leaves out

A standard national title or owner search is built around the recorded instruments — deeds, mortgages, judgments, recorded liens. Real work, done well. But on a Dade parcel, a lot of what actually costs you lives outside that search: open code-enforcement cases with live, accruing balances (before they ever become liens), Miami-Dade DERM environmental cases, county sewer-connection mandates, and county and City of Miami building permits. And the part that matters most at auction — whether each lien survives a foreclosure or tax deed — a flat recorded-docs list won’t tell you. We do.

Price
Us
$59 flat
National
$55–$275 + add-ons
Delivery
Us
Minutes, automated
National
~48 business hours (+$35 to rush)
Liens, mortgages, judgments
Us
National
Open code cases & live balances (pre-lien)
Us
Included
National
Recorded liens only
Building permits & inspections
Us
Bundled
National
Not part of a title search
DERM & sewer environmental
Us
Bundled
National
Prior-owner chain
Us
Included
National
Separate “Two Owner” product
Clear risk summary
Us
National

Built for the deal clock

ProTitleUSA quotes roughly 24 to 48 business hours for a standard search, and even the rush fee only gets you to about four business hours — a Friday order can land mid-next-week. Ours is automated end to end: enter a folio, and the report is back in minutes, Sunday at 11pm the same as Tuesday at 9am. When you’re running an auction list the night before, “business hours” isn’t a turnaround you can use.

The math at volume

A finished Dade search from a national service routinely lands between $150 and $275 once you add the municipal-lien search, the prior-owner product, and the rush fee — each its own line item. That’s fine for the one deal you close. It’s impossible across the ten you’re screening. At $59 flat, with everything already in it, you run the read on every lead and spend the certified search only on the survivors.

What we’re not

To be clear about the boundary: we’re not a certified, insured title product, and we’re not trying to be. We don’t write title insurance, and to close you’ll still want a title commitment. That’s a different job for a different moment. But for the due-diligence question — “before I commit capital, what is actually attached to this parcel?” — that’s exactly what this is built to answer, fast, for $59.

So which do you use?

Both — just not at the same moment. Use us first, on every Miami-Dade parcel, as the triage step before you spend real money or sign anything. Bring in a national service (or a local title company) when you’re working across states, or when you’ve cleared the first look and need the certified, insurable product to close. We’re the one that comes first — and the one that costs $59.

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