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Excellence in Title Engineering Services

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Expertise in West Coast Markets

Unwavering Commitment to Integrity

Unwavering Commitment to Integrity

With over 25 years of experience, West Coast Title Services provides comprehensive California title services that include title mapping, boundary analysis, easement plotting, and legal description interpretation. Our in-depth understanding of property records, title reports, and regional land use practices allows us to offer accurate and 

With over 25 years of experience, West Coast Title Services provides comprehensive California title services that include title mapping, boundary analysis, easement plotting, and legal description interpretation. Our in-depth understanding of property records, title reports, and regional land use practices allows us to offer accurate and reliable mapping solutions tailored to title companies, surveyors, attorneys, and real estate professionals. Whether you need straightforward exhibit maps or detailed boundary analysis and easement plotting, we are committed to delivering work that is clear, precise, and marked by exceptional attention to detail.

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Unwavering Commitment to Integrity

Unwavering Commitment to Integrity

Unwavering Commitment to Integrity

We uphold the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and technical excellence in every project we undertake, including boundary analysis and California title services. Clients can rely on our responsive service, transparent communication, and unwavering attention to detail, whether it involves easement plotting or legal descript

We uphold the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and technical excellence in every project we undertake, including boundary analysis and California title services. Clients can rely on our responsive service, transparent communication, and unwavering attention to detail, whether it involves easement plotting or legal description interpretation. Our commitment to accuracy and quality ensures that every title mapping and research assignment is executed with the precision and reliability our clients expect. We recognize that every property presents its own unique challenges, and we approach each assignment with the diligence and expertise necessary to deliver meaningful results.

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Risk Mitigation Expertise

Unwavering Commitment to Integrity

Risk Mitigation Expertise

Leveraging decades of experience in California title services and mapping expertise, we turn complex legal descriptions into clear and accurate visual representations. This process not only aids clients in confidently understanding property rights and encumbrances but also facilitates detailed boundary analysis. By focusing on legal descr

Leveraging decades of experience in California title services and mapping expertise, we turn complex legal descriptions into clear and accurate visual representations. This process not only aids clients in confidently understanding property rights and encumbrances but also facilitates detailed boundary analysis. By focusing on legal description interpretation, we translate intricate recorded matters into practical, easy-to-understand exhibits, including easement plotting. Our valuable insights show how these interests impact the land, whether for a routine transaction or a complex title matter. Our title mapping exhibits offer the clarity necessary to navigate property interests with confidence.

About Me

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My Story

 

Founded in 2009, West Coast Title Services was built on the belief that complex property records should be transformed into clear, accurate visual information that clients can trust. Following the real estate market downturn of 2008, many title companies began outsourcing title engineering services outside of California and overseas. Rather than leave the profession, Thomas Ellis leveraged years of specialized experience to establish an independent title engineering company dedicated to serving California clients with local expertise, precision, and personalized service.

Today, West Coast Title Services remains owner-operated and serves clients throughout Southern and Northern California. With more than 26 years of title industry experience, including 22 years specializing in title engineering, Thomas has earned a reputation for delivering accurate mapping solutions for even the most challenging easements, legal descriptions, and recorded property interests.

Thomas began his title career in 2000 as a part-time title searcher with Southland Title Company while attending school. Starting in the title plant, he learned the industry from the ground up, researching records that ranged from handwritten books dating back to the 1800s to modern digital databases. In 2004, he was trained as a title engineer, developing the specialized skills that would ultimately become the foundation of West Coast Title Services.

Specialized Expertise

Our services include easement plotting, legal description plotting, property boundary mapping, rights-of-way plotting, and the review of preliminary title reports as they relate to easements, property boundaries, encroachments, and legal descriptions. While our focus is exclusively on mapping and spatial interpretation, our work provides clients with a clear understanding of how recorded interests affect the land.

Over the years, West Coast Title Services has become known for handling the assignments that others cannot. Complex legal descriptions, difficult easement configurations, and challenging plotting projects are frequently referred to Thomas because of his ability to interpret and accurately map recorded property interests. Many of the projects he receives have already been attempted elsewhere.

Our clients are primarily title companies, though we also assist attorneys, surveyors, engineers, real estate professionals, developers, and property owners when appropriate documentation is available. Whether a project requires an hour or several weeks of detailed analysis, every task receives the same commitment to accuracy, responsiveness, and professional service. Rush service is available for time-sensitive projects, ensuring priority attention when deadlines matter.

Professional Philosophy

 As a husband of more than 25 years and father of two daughters, Thomas values the opportunity to build a business centered around both family and service. What continues to drive his work is the challenge of solving complex property puzzles and helping clients gain a clear understanding of the rights, easements, and recorded interests affecting their property. There is a unique satisfaction in bringing clarity to complicated situations and helping protect the interests of current and future property owners alike.

Our professional philosophy is simple: transform complex property records into clear, accurate visual information that clients can trust. Through precision, integrity, and attention to detail, we provide the clarity needed to understand property rights, easements, and recorded interests with confidence. Every map and plot we produce is guided by a commitment to accuracy, transparency, and professional excellence.

Why Choose WCTS?

Created in California by a California Title Engineer

Created in California by a California Title Engineer

Created in California by a California Title Engineer

Every exhibit is personally prepared by Thomas Ellis, owner and sole title engineer of West Coast Title Services. With more than 25 years of California title experience, Thomas interprets the legal descriptions, easements, access rights, and rights-of-way affecting the property to create a clear and accurate visual representation. Your project is never automated, outsourced, or passed between multiple people.

To Provide Confidence Before They Build

Created in California by a California Title Engineer

Created in California by a California Title Engineer

Recorded easements and other property interests are not always easy to understand from a title report or legal description alone. A custom property exhibit helps owners visualize where those interests are located in relation to their property, providing valuable information before they plan improvements, additions, landscaping, or other projects.

A Valuable Marketing Advantage

Created in California by a California Title Engineer

A Valuable Marketing Advantage

Offering a custom property exhibit provides an additional level of service that can help distinguish your office from the competition. Rather than simply providing clients with recorded documents and legal descriptions, you can offer a clear visual resource that helps them better understand the property they are purchasing and the recorded interests that may affect it.

Not Just Another Map

To Support Local Business

A Valuable Marketing Advantage

Every exhibit is personally prepared by Thomas Ellis, owner and sole title engineer of West Coast Title Services. Each project is carefully developed using more than two decades of California title engineering experience—not generated by automated systems or passed between multiple staff members. From the initial review through the completed exhibit, the same experienced professional handles your project from start to finish.

To Support Local Business

To Support Local Business

To Support Local Business

When you choose West Coast Title Services, you're supporting a California small business built on decades of local title experience. Your project stays in California and receives personalized attention from a professional who understands the records, practices, and complexities unique to California real estate.

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Contact Information

I invite you to contact me for any inquiries related to boundary analysis or California title services, or to schedule a consultation for easement plotting and legal description interpretation. Your trust in my expertise is my highest priority, and I am dedicated to providing you with prompt and sophisticated assistance, including title mapping.

West Coast Title Services

Redlands, CA, USA

909-725-2540 westcoasttitleservices@gmail.com

Business Hours

Mon

08:00 am – 04:00 pm

Tue

08:00 am – 04:00 pm

Wed

08:00 am – 04:00 pm

Thu

08:00 am – 04:00 pm

Fri

08:00 am – 04:00 pm

Sat

Closed

Sun

Closed

PREVIOUS WORK (1 HOUR)

PREVIOUS WORK (6 HOURS)

PRICING

Services are billed at $35 per hour with a one-hour minimum charge. Many standard assignments can be completed within that first hour, while more complex easement plots, legal descriptions, boundary maps, and title engineering projects are billed based on the time required to accurately complete the work.

The examples provided required approximately one hour and six hours to complete, demonstrating the wide range of complexity that can exist from one project to another. Because every property and recorded document is unique, pricing for more challenging assignments cannot always be determined in advance. Whenever possible, we work with our clients to provide cost-effective solutions while maintaining the accuracy, clarity, and attention to detail that every project deserves.

Rush service is available for time-sensitive assignments for an additional one-hour charge. While expedited service does not necessarily reduce the time required to complete a project, it does ensure priority scheduling and attention.

  

This service is neither a plat nor a survey. West Coast Title Services makes no representation nor are we assuring any party as to the exact location of the easements burdening the land shown hereon. This map is being furnished as a convenience to show the approximate location of said easements only and no liability is assumed by West Coast Title Services by reason of reliance hereon. Should precise location of said easements be required, it is advised that parties contact a licensed surveyor directly.


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