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[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ The Forum Board ] [ FAQ ] Re: Learning how to research property title.. Posted by Ward-CA- on December 07, 2001 at 6:13 PM In Reply to: Title Research posted by Confused on December 07, 2001 at 11:49 AM : Hi Ward: : Do you know of any published material that outlines how one researches at the County Recorder's Office? I went yesterday and felt overwhelmed by the amount of information available to me. I had thought what I would need to do is identify how senior is the loan being foreclosed upon, and then determine if there are any other liens senior to it (including IRS). : I want to be nothing short of thorough. Can you suggest how I go about formulating a historical timeline for a property, marking all the liens attached to it, and determine thereafter all I need to explore? : Thank you in advance for your response. =?=?=?=?=?=?=?=?=?=?= Dear Confused, Trying to teach yourself the skills of title record searching can be nigh near impossible, since you won?t really know what you still don?t know when you think you are done. In such a situation most people make assumptions that aren?t really based on fact. I have had a number of conversations with potential trainees, who want me to shorten my three day foreclosure training course to two days, since they feel they don?t need to cover title researching because they have spent some time down at the county recorder?s office going through it already. My rejoinder is that I?d agree with them if they can explain to me how they know when they have gone back far enough in the public record. None of them has ever come close to knowing when they can safely stop going back in time. I was very fortunate in learning the way title companies did title record searching in the recorder?s office before they switched to their own computerized proprietary databases of today. I think that trying to learn such a skill from a book would be like trying to learning how to swim by reading a book. We have taught hundreds of trainees how to do such searches via the hands-on approach and I think every one of them would agree it?s the only way to thoroughly learn it. So why don?t you ask around your recorder?s office if they know of someone, perhaps some local regular, who could teach you the ropes? Follow Ups: Post a Followup: Name : E-Mail : Subject : Comments: : : Hi Ward: : : Do you know of any published material that outlines how one researches at the County Recorder's Office? I went yesterday and felt overwhelmed by the amount of information available to me. I had thought what I would need to do is identify how senior is the loan being foreclosed upon, and then determine if there are any other liens senior to it (including IRS). : : I want to be nothing short of thorough. Can you suggest how I go about formulating a historical timeline for a property, marking all the liens attached to it, and determine thereafter all I need to explore? : : Thank you in advance for your response. : =?=?=?=?=?=?=?=?=?=?= : Dear Confused, : Trying to teach yourself the skills of title record searching can be nigh near impossible, since you won?t really know what you still don?t know when you think you are done. In such a situation most people make assumptions that aren?t really based on fact. : I have had a number of conversations with potential trainees, who want me to shorten my three day foreclosure training course to two days, since they feel they don?t need to cover title researching because they have spent some time down at the county recorder?s office going through it already. : My rejoinder is that I?d agree with them if they can explain to me how they know when they have gone back far enough in the public record. None of them has ever come close to knowing : when they can safely stop going back in time. : I was very fortunate in learning the way title companies did title record searching in the recorder?s office before they switched to their own computerized proprietary databases of today. : I think that trying to learn such a skill from a book would be like trying to learning how to swim by reading a book. : We have taught hundreds of trainees how to do such searches via the hands-on approach and I think every one of them would agree it?s the only way to thoroughly learn it. : So why don?t you ask around your recorder?s office if they know of someone, perhaps some local regular, who could teach you the ropes? Optional Link URL: Link Title: Optional Image URL: [ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ The Forum Board ] [ FAQ ] WWWAdmin 2.0a © 1997 Matt Wright and DBasics Software Company, All Rights Reserved

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