ALTA Title Survey Checklist: What Lenders Look For
If you are buying or financing property, you will hear one term again and again: ALTA title survey. In fact, most lenders will not release funds without one. Yet many buyers still feel confused about what this survey actually needs to show for financing approval. They assume any ALTA survey will work. Unfortunately, that assumption […]
Why Every Geothermal Lease Needs an ALTA Land Title Survey
In September 2025, the Bureau of Land Management finished Idaho’s newest geothermal lease sale. Developers paid $4.44 million for nine parcels of land across Elmore, Washington, and Bonneville counties. Together, these parcels cover more than 24,000 acres. That’s a huge amount of ground that may soon host drilling rigs, utility lines, and new roads. But […]