Partner with a title company — as an owner, not a referral source

The three ways brokers “partner” with title

When a broker says they want to “partner with a title company,” they usually mean one of three very different things:

• Referral relationship — you send business, they keep the revenue. Simple, but you own nothing and (under RESPA) you can’t be paid for the referral.
• Marketing or service agreement — you’re paid for actual marketing or services rendered at fair market value. Legitimate, but heavily scrutinized and capped at the value of what you actually do.
• Joint-venture ownership — you co-own a bona fide title agency and earn a return on your ownership interest. This is the only model where you share in the recurring profit your volume creates.

Vested builds the third kind: a genuine joint-venture title company structured to RESPA’s Affiliated Business Arrangement rules.

Why ownership beats a referral or marketing deal

A referral relationship makes someone else rich on your pipeline. A marketing-service agreement is legal only up to the fair value of services you genuinely provide — and it invites regulatory questions. Ownership is different: as a part-owner of a real title agency, you earn a return on your investment, not a payment for referrals. That return is recurring, it scales with your volume, and it’s an asset you build equity in.

What Vested actually does

You bring the relationships and the closings. We build and run everything else:

• Form the title agency and secure licensing, bonds, and underwriter appointments
• Hire and manage licensed title and escrow staff
• Stand up the technology, order management, and a branded closing portal
• Run accounting, audits, and clean owner distributions
• Keep the Affiliated Business disclosures and compliance current

You see the revenue; we carry the operation. Want the numbers? Run them in the calculator or read how a title company gets started in Florida .