
Get Started
Are you new to ALTA Best Practices and unsure of how to start implementing the Best Practices standards? Check out the links below and get started on the path towards Best Practices compliance.
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Frequently Asked Questions
These FAQs are designed to give you a better understanding of the ALTA Best Practices.
- Assessment Guide & FAQ Resource
Create Policies and Procedures
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Best Practices Policy and Procedure Creation Guidance
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The Policy and Procedure Creation Guidance includes detailed instructions and tips on how to draft procedures that fit a company's practices, an example of what written policies and procedures should look like, as well as a template to provide a standard format for recording policies and procedures.
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Sample Outline/Table of Contents for Best Practices Policy and Procedure
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The Sample Outline provides an example of items a final policy and procedure should include.
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Template for Best Practices Policy and Procedure
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The Template provides a standard format for companies to use when drafting their policy and procedures. After drafting their policies and procedures, companies can combine these Templates into a Best Practices Manual.
Key Documents
- Title and Settlement Company Best Practices Framework V 3.0 (07-08-2020)
- ALTA Best Practices Framework - Assessment Procedures V3.0 (07-08-2020)
- ALTA Best Practices Representation Letter V 2.5 10-13-2017
- Assessment Procedures V 2.5 (10-07-2016)
- Assessment Guide & FAQ Resource
- Certification Package V 2.0 (07-19-2013)
Best Practices FAQ Portal
To help ensure industry receives consistent guidance about the Best Practices, ALTA will be publishing answers to frequently asked questions on its FAQ Portal. If you do not see an answer to your question, you can fill out the FAQ Question Form below.