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Self-close vs title company, decided on paper

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1 · Learn the move · Comparison matrix

On a small cash tract the question comes up every time: close it yourself with an attorney-drawn deed, or pay a title company to run it. The decision usually gets made on a feeling about fees. A comparison matrix makes it get made on paper, with the same rows for each route and a cell for every cost, risk and unknown. The trap is that a model asked this question will happily fill the fee cells with 'typical' amounts and tell you self-closing is common. Neither is true of your deal. The only fees in the matrix are the ones on quotes you pasted, and whether a non-attorney may close in your state is a question the matrix routes to an attorney licensed there, never a cell it answers.

Compare two ways to close this tract: self-close with an attorney-drawn deed, or a title company. Same rows for both: what it does, what it costs, what risk stays with me, what is still unknown. Costs come only from the quotes I pasted; anything unquoted reads [NEEDS: quote]. Do not tell me which route is legal in my state. [contract] [quotes]

2 · Your turn. You write the prompt

You have a signed contract on a 6.2-acre tract in Harrow County at a cash price, an emailed quote from a title company, and a quote from an attorney to draw the deed. The seller wants it done in two weeks. Write the prompt that lays both routes side by side without inventing a single fee or a legal answer.

Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.

Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.

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