Lola Levoy

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Lola LevoyBeverly Hills Escrow118 South Beverly Drive, Suite 222Beverly Hills, CA 90212Phone (310) 273-9850 ext. 15Fax (310) 274-1676

May 23rd, as recipients of Spirit of Compassion awards will be presented to Lola Levoy, Richard J. Welch andGeorge T. Caplan.

Lola Levoy, a member of Aviva's Board of Directors for over 12 years, has served terms as Vice President and co-chair of the annual benefit committee.She is an active member of the Fulfillment Fund and, for over 18 years, was a California State coordinator for a children's program.As a member of the Board of Passions and Dreams, Lola supports community women's efforts to establish business and professional careers including financial assistance and emotional support.

Lola is President and owner of Beverly Hills Escrow and Beverly Hills Deferred Exchange.She lectures frequently at UCLA and USC on commercial and residential property sales, financing and all transactions requiring escrow services.She is a member of the California Escrow Association and holds the professional designation of Certified Senior Escrow Officer.Her abilities with very complex transactions are unparalleled in the industry.

Lola Levoy, owner of Beverly Hills Escrow and a practicing escrow agent with 37 years' experience, said that she sees more residential properties falling out of escrow today than at any time in her career.Levoy theorizes that the overheated Southern California real estate market is the culprit.

"Buyers are overbidding to get into properties, and sellers spend the time during escrow questioning whether they sold too low.The result is that both the buyer and seller are very nervous that they made a mistake, and may attempt to back out of the deal," she explained.

She sees savvy real estate brokers agreeing to very short escrows so that their clients will not have time to dwell on their decision.

According to Levoy, the best way for a buyer to achieve a positive escrow experience is to carefully read the purchase agreement, and to communicate his intentions to the seller.

"The buyer falls in love with the beautiful Tiffany lamp over the breakfast nook and assumes that it is part of the deal," Levoy said."Meanwhile, the seller has no intention of parting with Auntie's heirloom.Buyers are so caught up in the house and whether or not their furniture will fit that they don't read the escrow instructions."

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Some kids sported coding on their name badges, indicating that they were on medication or could not be photographed at all because they live in hiding from an abusive parent, said board member Lola Levoy.

Levoy, owner of Beverly Hills Escrow, said that many of the children are forced out of the system when they are 18 without the skills to get along on their own and that as many as three-fourths of prison inmates nationwide were once in foster care.Among the young girls whom Levoy has assisted was one who was sold for sex from the age of 2 by a series of uncles in exchange for drug money.