RVA Real Estate Settlements, LLC is a Virginia title insurance agent and settlement company. We provide real estate closing services for properties and customers throughout Virginia, serving primarily central Virginia – Richmond, Virginia and surrounding counties.
Our services include:
- Residential settlement (closing) services to individuals; and
- Title insurance to purchasers (individuals and businesses) and their lenders; and
- Title services and title insurance to attorneys handling commercial transactions.
Our Mission and Vision
We opened RVA Real Estate Settlements in early 2018 for the purpose of providing our customers with personal, high-quality, competitively-priced settlement and title services. Our employees have decades of real estate experience. We work diligently to make the real estate settlement process and title insurance understandable and transparent.
Our People
RVA RES is managed by John L. Lumpkins, Jr.

John is an attorney – a graduate of University of Richmond’s School of Law – who has been practicing law since 1988. His practice focuses on real estate, estate planning, probate, administration, and small businesses. For several years in the 1990s John held both his law license and a Virginia title insurance agent license. He has managed title agencies owned by two different law firms, both based in Richmond, Virginia. His real estate experience includes handling many complex partition suits. You may visit his law firm website here.
Kendra W. Lumpkins and Michael L. Lumpkins are the primary points of contact with RVA RES customers.

Kendra is a real estate assistant and closer with RVA RES. She has worked with John in his law firm for several years. Prior to joining John at the law firm, Kendra worked as a Revenue Agent, stayed at home much of the 1990s raising three children, and worked in several retail positions including store management at Williams-Sonoma. Kendra was raised in Fairfax County, Virginia and has an accounting degree from the University of Kentucky.
Janet C. Lee is RVA RES’s designated license producer. Janet is an experienced, Virginia-licensed title insurance agent. She has been in the real estate and title business in the Richmond area since the later 1980s.
In addition to Janet, Margaret D. Kapinos also underwrites title insurance coverage for us. Margaret also has many years of real estate and title experience in law firms and title agencies in Richmond.
RVA Real Estate Settlements, LLC is an agent of Old Republic National Title Insurance Company.

Our Agent Number with Old Republic is A45744
Our Virginia Title Producer License # is: 143390
As part of our company’s commitment to meeting and exceeding industry standards, Secure Insight has confirmed that RVA RES’s credentials meet the risk management standards set by Secure Insight’s mortgage lender clients.
