Original recorded deeds

[Dobermanns]

I was organizing/decluttering, and found all our original recorded deeds from our contracts and organized them in a file. This is probably a stupid question: are they needed for selling the contracts or passing them down to beneficiaries? I imagine during a sale the title company would do their own title search and DVC verifies ownership detail?

I am wondering and thinking along of lines of the pink slips being needed for car sales.

Thank you!

 

[CarolynFH]

I was organizing/decluttering, and found all our original recorded deeds from our contracts and organized them in a file. This is probably a stupid question: are they needed for selling the contracts or passing them down to beneficiaries? I imagine during a sale the title company would do their own title search and DVC verifies ownership detail?

I am wondering and thinking along of lines of the pink slips being needed for car sales.

Thank you!

We are working on a gratuitous transfer, and the transfer company needed a copy of the deed. We scanned and emailed ours. Otherwise the company would have gotten it for us, for a $25 fee.

That deed is a legal document of your ownership. We treat ours the same way we treat the deed to our house and our birth certificates.

 

[Dobermanns]

We are working on a gratuitous transfer, and the transfer company needed a copy of the deed. We scanned and emailed ours. Otherwise the company would have gotten it for us, for a $25 fee.

That deed is a legal document of your ownership. We treat ours the same way we treat the deed to our house and our birth certificates.

Thank you! I put the file in the safe with our house deed and passports etc.

 

[ClaraOswald]

Dumb question - when buying resale, is a deed sent to us at the end of all this or what?

 

[DVChris]

Dumb question - when buying resale, is a deed sent to us at the end of all this or what?

Yes, a hard copy will be mailed to you.

 

[Royal Consort]

Dumb question - when buying resale, is a deed sent to us at the end of all this or what?

No, the deeds are now registered electronically so the electronic copy is now the "original"

 

[DonMacGregor]

No, the deeds are now registered electronically so the electronic copy is now the "original"

I know several brokers will still send you a hard copy of the deed, but it's no different than what you can simply download from the Comptroller's site (Florida), or the County Clerk-Recorder (California).