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  2. Scammers are stealing homes from under their owners' noses ...

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    Gordon had purchased the property in 1999 for $76,500, but at some point, someone submitted a new deed to the Pima County recorder, using Gordon's name but changing the state from Arizona to Texas.

  3. Title search - Wikipedia

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    In real estate business and law, a title search or property title search is the process of examining public records and retrieving documents on the history of a piece of real property to determine and confirm property's legal ownership, and find out what claims or liens are on the property. [1] A title search is also performed when an owner ...

  4. Recording (real estate) - Wikipedia

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    A grantor/grantee title search attempts to locate records by searching the parties listed on a recorded instrument. One approach to conducting a full grantor/grantee title search starts by searching the grantor index in the County records and determining the name of the first recorded owner of title.

  5. Recorder of deeds - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Frederick Douglass in the D.C. Recorder of Deeds Building. Frederick Douglass was the first recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia.. Recorder of deeds or deeds registry is a government office tasked with maintaining public records and documents, especially records relating to real estate ownership that provide persons other than the owner of a property with real rights over ...

  6. Lot and block survey system - Wikipedia

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    a description of the map's place of official recording (e.g., recorded in the files of the County Engineer). The legal description of a 2.5-acre (10,000 m 2) property under the Lot and Block system may be something like; Lot 5 of Block 2 of the South Subdivision plat as recorded in Map Book 21, Page 33 at the Recorder of Deeds.

  7. Tax sale - Wikipedia

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    A tax sale is the forced sale of property (usually real estate) by a governmental entity for unpaid taxes by the property's owner.. The sale, depending on the jurisdiction, may be a tax deed sale (whereby the actual property is sold) or a tax lien sale (whereby a lien on the property is sold) Under the tax lien sale process, depending on the jurisdiction, after a specified period of time if ...

  8. Commissioner of deeds - Wikipedia

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    The office of Commissioner of Deeds is one unique to the United States. During the 19th century, deeds concerning property located in a particular state could only be acknowledged before a Notary Public in that state; if the deeds was acknowledged outside the state where the subject property was located, the grantor would have to find a judge of a court of record to take the acknowledgment.

  9. Harris County, Texas - Wikipedia

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    The Harris County Commissioners closed the poor farm in August 1958. [38] In 2014, no more burials were allowed to occur at the Oates Road facility due to overcapacity. [39] By 2013 the county was building a second potter's field due to overcapacity at the first. [38] Harris County Eastgate Cemetery had started operations in 2014. [39]