Debbie Allen started her escrow career in 1973 and worked on a massive real estate deal in 1976 involving over 760 properties across 4 states that closed at $225 million. This experience working to close such a large deal led to her vision of starting an independent escrow company, Crossroads Escrow Services, committed to excellence in escrow. Crossroads Escrow Services takes the path "less traveled" in the escrow industry to deliver a highly qualified professional escrow service.

1. It began with a commitment to excellence; a decisive point;
a turning point; to take the path less traveled.
Excellence in escrow is the vision of Debbie Allen, a highly respected Certified Senior
Escrow Officer serving the Southern California real estate and escrow community.
Crossroads Escrow Services, Inc. is the result of that vision; a journey which began some
34-years ago, a path to deliver a highly qualified independent, professional, and dependable
escrow service company to the real estate professional.
Debbie’s quest for excellence began with Lawyers Title in 1973; having just graduated with honors from Bishop Amat High
School, and while attending Mt. San Antonio College, Debbie traveled every day to Los Angeles to work in the “Special
Projects Division” of Lawyers Title; the project which came to be known as ‘the Phillips Deal’, involving Phillips Petroleum
Corp., Southland Corp., TOSCO Corp., and GATX Tank Storage Terminals Corp.
The gigantic deal amassed some 760 properties located in California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada; 45 various counties
in California; 85 title officers and over 2,000 documents. On April 1, 1976, Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation celebrated its
12th anniversary by closing the $225 million dollar deal; twice the number of transactions that LTIC offices in the state closed
in their entire year of operation. After the closing, James Mullen, of Phillips Petroleum Company wrote a personal letter of
acknowledgement to Debbie, declaring,
“…without your assistance the closing would have been most difficult,
if not impossible.”
As the Project Coordinator’s assistant, and under the watchful eye of Richard Marshall and Charles Gray, a pioneer and noted
author of California escrow practices, procedures and escrow law, Debbie began her journey to achieve excellence in escrow.
The Road not Taken, is a poem by Robert Frost, published in 1916 in his collection Mountain Interval, the narrator declares
that taking the road “one less traveled by” “made all the difference,” can be seen as a declaration of the importance of
independence and personal freedom.
Crossroads Escrow Services, Inc. is the evolution of career decisions where two roads meet; a decisive point; a turning point;
to take the path less traveled.
Mastering Excellence in Escrow is the vision, path, and mission of Crossroads Escrow Services, Inc.
A commitment to Excellence in Escrow; taking the path
“the one less traveled by”…which “makes all the difference.”
20955 Pathfinder road, Suite #160 • diamond Bar, California 91765
tel: (909) 843-6415 • fax: (909) 843-6474 • dallen@crossroadsescrow.net