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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">The situation is unfortunate indeed, though I’m not sure you’ll convince the County to eat the recording fee. In these instances, as irritating as it is, it’s often more cost-effective to pay the recording
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">My problem with that, the 2022 deed is a red-herring. If my client had done nothing, the 1994 deed is still there and would show up on the other property’s title report.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Heather is right about the cost.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">It’s almost as if the bureaucrats in the recorder’s office are being passive-aggressive. Imagine that!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 27, 2023 11:02 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">This seems like an unfortunate set of circumstances, but it sure doesn’t seem efficient to sue the County. I would argue that if they want the 1994 deed with their mistake
rerecorded, perhaps there is a good argument they can/should cover the cost. The 2022 deed is a tougher issue, but to take the original deed and attach a coversheet and rerecord it to correct the legal description will only be a couple of hundred dollars,
if you do it now (before recording fees go up). The title company should be able to tell you if fixing the quit claim deed is even necessary, but it doesn’t seem like a couple hundred dollars is worth blowing up the whole deal.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Was the 1994 deed insured? Maybe you can fix the problem and then make a claim against the title company who insured it.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Apparently, the county separated the documents while recording and somehow attached the second legal to the deed for client’s property. It was not the grantor’s problem.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Why is it the County’s fault that the 1994 deed contained an additional legal description to property not owned by the then grantor? Wouldn’t that be the fault of the drafting
party in 1994? It’s not like the recorder’s office verifies or guarantees seisin or good title.
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<b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Correcting County Auditor's Recording Mistate - Who Pays<span><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">This is very irritating and makes me want to sue the Auditor.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">In 1994, Auditor records a deed, from the predecessor owner to my client and former wife, that contained an additional legal description to property not owned by the then grantor.
In 2022, we recorded a deed to this property to create community for the client and his new wife. We simply used the legal description from the 1994 deed. The error, that was just discovered, is now, somehow, creating a problem with closing the sale of
the property, which legal was attached to the 1994 deed. County admits it was their error, in 1994, to have attached the additional legal, as it should have been attached to a UCC statement. The title company, closing the present deal wants, a rerecord,
of which deed, is not clear, but either our 2022 deed or the 1994 deed, or both, to eliminate the extra-legal. I said, sure, I will draft the rerecord deed, but we are not paying the recording fee. The County refuses to waive the recording fee. It says
I should have caught the error in the 1994 deed, and should have ordered a title report before recording the 2022 deed. Huh? To that I said FU and the black horse you road in on. Title company keeps hounding us to rerecord but my client wont pay the fee.
I’m not ponying it up. I don’t see why the title company just wont insure around it. I don’t see why the county can’t waive the recording fee due to their error. Have any of you had anything like this happen. Is there anyway to force the county to waive
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