Recently the Clerk started their E Recording program.\u00a0 I dutifully set up my account and, just yesterday,\u00a0finally had the opportunity to try it out.\u00a0 The process is fairly simple:\u00a0 Scan the documents you want to record, log into your account on the Clerk’s website, and upload the documents.\u00a0 Now documents can be recorded immediately after a closing takes place.\u00a0 The immediate recording can substanitally cut down on the “gap” – the time it takes from completeing the closing to recording the final documents.<\/p>\n
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So are there any downsides to electrontic recording?\u00a0 Only time will tell.\u00a0 The biggest difference that immediately comes to mind is the fact there is no original recorded document.\u00a0 At least, what I think of as an original recorded document.\u00a0 Prior to electronic recording, our office would courier closing documents to the courthouse and pick them up a few days later.\u00a0 The documents would be returned with a nice little sticker on the upper portion of the documents.\u00a0 The sticker would contain the recording infomration – book and page of recording, the tax collected and the consideration paid.\u00a0 Now the only proof of recording is the receipt that you can print out when the documents is accepted by the Clerk – no more nice little stickers.\u00a0 Time will tell how the system develops and how it\u00a0will be\u00a0accepted.\u00a0 I do antcipate the day that all closings will be handled through the internet – electronic signatures, pdf documents and electronic recordings.\u00a0 Will it ever come to the day that we will not need\u00a0a physical recording department?\u00a0 At the rate that we are relying more and more on computers, its not out of the question.<\/p>\n
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Recently the Clerk started their E Recording program.\u00a0 I dutifully set up my account and, just yesterday,\u00a0finally had the opportunity to try it out.\u00a0 The process is fairly simple:\u00a0 Scan the documents you want to record, log into your account … Continue reading