[WSBARP] Death of Courtesy Recordings? Third Party E-Recording Services?

Wed Jan 27 10:44:39 PST 2021

I second that. I have been using them for years both in Washington and Florida.

Nestor Gorfinkel, Attorney at Law
Licensed in Florida & Washington
Florida Civil-Law (International) Notary

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From: wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com> On Behalf Of Joshua McKarcher
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Subject: Re: [WSBARP] Death of Courtesy Recordings? Third Party E-Recording Services?

I have used Simplifile for years and am a huge fan. Here is a list of all the states/counties in which you can very straightforwardly e-record: https://simplifile.com/e-recording/e-recording-network/

Once you get the gist, you literally drag/drop your finished PDF onto a screen, fill in a few fields, and click Submit.

I choose to pay no ongoing fees and just $10/document, which is added to the recording fee and ACH-debited from my firm's operating account.

Extremely easy, good customer service when needed (but rarely need it), deep county-specific information, including an email or phone number for the specific recorder's-office employee who handles e-recording and usually will happily preview your PDF filing to tell you if they'll reject it - honestly, it's just a no-brainer in my mind.

I can e-record in Minnesota or Nevada or Arizona (or Washington or Idaho) or nearly anywhere with no problems (after have a deed prepared by a local lawyer, of course, but signed here in my office), and have nearly instant recording with little effort and no FedEx/mail and waiting weeks for documents to come back.

Good luck! Best, Josh

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From: wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com<mailto:wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com> <wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com<mailto:wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com>> On Behalf Of Doug Schafer
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ePN apparently is https://goepn.com/
The other major e-recording services appears to be https://simplifile.com/

About a week ago a local title co. office did do a courtesy e-recording for me of a QC Deed with King County. It had insured a refinancing about a month earlier in which the lender had required title in the individual borrower's name rather than her LLC. The QC Deed restored title in the LLC.

Doug Schafer, in Tacoma.
On 1/27/2021 09:18, Allen Sakai wrote:
Rob:

We use ePN.  No set up fee.  No monthly fee.  No annual fee.  Just $4 per recording (on top of the regular recording charge from the county of course).  They are supposed to be state wide and actually national.  But just check to make sure they cover the counties you are working in.  Snohomish County was a bit of a pain to set up but we did it.

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Subject: [External Email][WSBARP] Death of Courtesy Recordings? Third Party E-Recording Services?

It used to be that one could send a deed or instrument out of county to a friendly title company who would go ahead and record at no charge.  Seems to have disappeared.

I just sent over two trustees deeds for a couple of trustee sales I finished in King and Pierce County for recording. I have a large contingent of private money lender clients.  Sending the deeds to a different large corporate title company in King County and discovered  they won't do courtesy recordings (which I assumed) after sitting around for about ten days.  I didn't use the title company who issued the sales guarantees because they were incompetent missing a judgment and a seven-figure subordinate deed of trust which would've not been noticed on the trustee sale but for my digging around.  I fired the negligent title company.

They sent the deeds over to a separate third-party electronic recording service who will be doing my recording for an additional fee.

Thoughts on setting up an account with one of these third party services? Recommendations?  Pros and cons?

Thanks.

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