What Milestone Title handles in a FSBO closing
- Escrow: a neutral, disciplined home for the deposit
- Full title search, municipal lien search, and estoppels — the diligence a buyer's agent would normally be pushing for
- Settlement statement preparation: payoffs, prorations, doc stamps, every figure balanced
- Closing document coordination and signing logistics
- Recording and post-closing follow-through
The FSBO failure modes we prevent
FSBO deals mostly die (or detonate later) in predictable places: a contract cobbled from internet forms that doesn't say who pays for what; deposit handling between the parties themselves; missed FIRPTA on a foreign seller; an open permit discovered the week of closing; deed and stamp mistakes from DIY paperwork. A professional closing team turns each of those into a checklist item.
One boundary matters: as the title and closing team we don't represent either side in negotiating the deal. When you want advice — contract terms, disclosure duties, a buyer pushing something odd — that is attorney work, and Muroff, Milestone & Milestone, P.A. can represent you under a separate engagement. Many FSBO sellers pair a flat-scope attorney review with our closing services and still come out far ahead of a listing commission.