About Us
Attorney Title Services, Inc. was established in 1995. Louis Bakkalapulo heads the Company. Mr. Bakkalapulo has been a Florida licensed attorney since 1988.
The Title Company’s president, Mr. Bakkalapulo, was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas and was conferred a Bachelors of Science Degree from the School of Business in 1984 in the field of Business Administration. He then attended the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing Michigan and was conferred a Juris Doctorate degree in 1988. While attending Cooley Law School, Mr. Bakkalapulo appeared on the Deans List and Honor Role for several terms and was awarded the Lawyers Cooperative Book Award for the highest grade in Mortgages and Land Contracts. Mr. Bakkalapulo was a Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity member while in Law School.
The Company is also comprised of a well-trained and extremely competent staff of professionals. It is a full service Title Agent, which performs residential and commercial closings and escrow, services.
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You finally found the house of your dreams. You signed a contract and got approved for a mortgage. You’ve even hired the movers. Now comes the most important part: the closing. In an ideal world, closing should be a mere formality, where homebuyer and seller sign on the dotted lines, exchange checks for the keys and shake hands. But this isn’t an ideal world, which means that if you and the professionals you hired don’t prepare, your closing could be a disaster. To Read more, click...
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