ESS Solutions, LLC claims to be out of Cantonsville but in fact only maintains a small "branch" office there. If this is the same outfit you have been talking with, then you are being fed a load of curried crap.
The Maryland office (421, Oella Avenue) is a regional office according to their website. http://www.essllc.com/contactus.aspx . The site also lists a branch in the UK but their main operation is in India based.
The company was founded by "Dr." M Sanjay Kanth and he is the current CEO. In December 2005 Kanth boasted to the Wall Street Reporter in an audio taped interview that his company was
"America's First Offshore Title Plant".
July of this year the Economic Times Mumbai inteviewed Kanth and reported:
The founder of Bangalore-based ESS Solutions aims to make his company
the Google of land titles. ESS serves the multi-billion dollar US title
industry.
The founder of Bangalore-based ESS Solutions aims to make his company the Google of land titles...
All this is done by ESS team of searchers in its Bangalore office who
look up online databases and records and collect the information about
the property.
The company plans to add 600-650 jobs over the next couple of years in
India. It also plans to start similar ventures in the UK. ESS has two
offices in US, one in London and two in India. As a group, the net
revenues per quarter is around $0.8 million (Rs 3.2 crore).
It seems to me that Kanth wants U.S. abstractors and Ameican bankers to believe one thing while telling an entirely different story when he is at home in INDIA.
He also indicates in the article that his company has also suffered as a result of the current problems in American real estate market and a growing shortage of once cheap labor in India.
Scaling up the venture from this point onwards is not going to be easy
with the overheated real estate and manpower market in India.
Kanth says, “It’s been a very satisfying journey but, with its highs
and lows. High attrition has been a constant challenge and even more
challenging is to keep my clients happy.
Here is a link to the full article http://www.essllc.com/Press/ETarticle.aspx
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