s soon as you buy real will not check to see if your
estate, it’s a must to deed is valid, or even whether
register it at the you actually own the property. –
recording office or wherever real that would only be investigated
estate transactions are during legal proceedings in case
registered in your particular a dispute arose as to who owned
jurisdiction. If you don’t, you the property, etc. All the
could end up losing title to your recording office does is keep the
real estate due to the misconduct document and make it available to
of the previous owner or even due people who need it. The only
to a mistake. If you have bought thing the clerk will check is
property (as opposed to leasing what kind of document you are
it or accepting a mortgage on it, recording.
both of which can also be
recorded), you will need a 2. Recording
properly executed, acknowledged,
and delivered deed to your The recording office will copy
property. In some states, a mere your deed and put it into their
contract for the sale of real Official Records in numerical
estate may be recordable, but order. So you might end up
since you’re going to end up with recording your deed, for example,
the deed anyway at the closing of in Volume 452, Page 209.
the transaction, recording your
deed is usually the best idea. 3. Indexing
You will have to have your deed
notarized. It may have occurred to you that
recording deeds in strict
1. Filing chronological order can make a
deed almost impossible to locate
The clerk at the recoding office if you don’t already know the
date upon which it was recorded. the buyer’s) name, along with the
That is why the recording office volume and page numbers where a
also prepares a set of indexes copy of the deed can be found. It
recording information about each might also include a description
document for easy reference. Your of the deed and the property. The
deed will be recorded in a recording office will probably
grantor-grantee index which also maintain a grantee-grantor
alphabetically lists recorded index alphabetically arranged by
documents according to the the buyer’s name.
grantor’s (normally the seller’s)
name and the grantee’s (usually
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