Abstractor/Searcher; Webster
Listed on 2026-02-01
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Administrative/Clerical
Legal Secretary, Business Administration
Location: Iowa
Date posted: 9/30/2025
Type: Full-Time
Pay: From $15.00 per hour
County: Franklin
Entry Level Position in our Franklin County office, located in Hampton, Iowa. Provide extensive research with digital database, courthouse land records and other online tools. Compile details of complete ownership of real estate, and conveyances, encumbrances, liens, judgments, etc. affecting chain of title.
Prepare abstracting products aligned with the high standards required by our profession, and those for legal purposes. Serving law firms, lenders, real estate firms, settlement (closing) companies and their consumers.
- Abstract research, compiling, typing, printing
- Open Office Suite knowledge, (helpful, yet easy to learn)
- Ability to maintain spreadsheet
- Search database and Court House land records
- Familiar with legal descriptions (helpful, but not necessary)
- Effectively communicate in person, by telephone and email
- Help us to maintain our atmosphere of Exceptional Customer Experience
- Ability to maintain accuracy while multitasking
- Professionally represent our company outside the office.
Skills:
- Ability to type 55 wpm and proof read work
- Strong power of mental retention and recall
- Telephone etiquette, pleasant voice, smile when conversing
- Organized, orderly, positive attitude and a team player
- Effective time management
- Knowledge and practice of basic math and proper grammar
Our company motto/mantra is "Fast, Accurate and Friendly". We look for persons whose work reflects our motto to clients.
Benefits:
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
Schedule: 8 hour shift Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types: Bonus opportunities
Education: High school or equivalent (Preferred)
License/Certification: Driver’s License MUST PASS BACKGROUND CHECK
Compensation: From $15.00 per hour
Reasons to choose Abstract Associates of Iowa, Inc.- Our friendly, accurate, experienced staff
- Our fast turnaround times
- "Know what you pay for" with published price list of basic fees on our website
- Itemized invoices: never any question of what services were performed
- Free pick up and delivery within Fort Dodge
- Our Certified Title Plants in Calhoun, Franklin, Hamilton, Webster and Wright counties
- Easy online order services for Calhoun, Franklin, Hamilton, Webster and Wright counties
- Easy access to Attorney Title opinion services
- Complete adherence to Iowa Blue Book Abstractor Standards
- Membership in Iowa Land Title Association
- Participating member in Iowa Title Guaranty
- Our handsomely bound abstracts, delivered in a protective plastic sleeve
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