About 40 minutes before we were set to close, they told us we needed to wire our down payment and wouldn't accept a cashiers check -- that we obtained several days ago . . . because that's how you do it. Then they ducked some four or five calls from our lender. We worked it out (was easy enough to pop by the bank, return the check, and send the wire), but this really added a bit of unnecessary stress to closing. If wire-only was the rule, I sure wish they'd have made it clearer to us. (We searched prior communications with them to see if maybe they did and we missed it, but we didn't find anything.) All's well t hat ends well, but that was a nasty curveball. In any event, we wouldn't find ourselves recommending ANY title company, good or bad, to friends, because the sellers/lenders usually sort that kind of thing out.