Research pandemic
How much research do you typically do?
Often it’s simple, but of course it can get messy.
I’m constantly in the vault but they shut down this week, can’t get there.
For me I have extensive records if I want to fight through my scanned jobs so it saved me along with my title connections.
The main issue this week was a string of deeds, 1902 Smith (patent issued to Smith) deeded to Jones 11Ac, 1949 Smith deeded to Johnson 12 Ac easterly of Jones but included some of the Jones Acreage, 1952 Jones deeds to Samson a strip being most of the overlap area, then shortly deeds another strip to Samson, now the entire area is Johnson-Samson. Today Johnson’s land is in probate and they need to know what it is, it’s never been developed, the strip in question are lands occupied by a road mostly, so no fencing along the boundary, it’s complicated because the owner isn’t a US citizen and probate is happening out of the country.
But, luck had it that I have all the deeds from previous work. One job was 875 pages of scans, the other was only 350, it took me over two hours to find and print them all out. In the Vault it would have been 15 minutes since these are large family owned ranches with very little transactions since the patents were issued.
Problem with the local vault is that although they scanned some books they stopped going back about 2003.
Seems this is enough for most people’s needs, not mine.
The state has a 40 year +1 deed rule, sometimes it’s relevant, but like the above example, it often isn’t.
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