The owner seems to have pretty extensive history with the registrar of deeds and I just am wanting to be sure there are no other liens out there.

--Lastly--and I'm not an expert in this part--but you'll probably want to do at least a cursory search online and with your local/state business registrar to make sure there are no glaring other uses of that name in your field.

I guess the only surefire way of doing this would be to suggest riding the coat tails of a mentor and or giving another investor a helping hand and trying to swap sweat for knowledge and or equity while also potentially putting some blood on the registrar as well to prove commitment on the deal.

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It is necessary to check the Registrar of deeds in order to verify the actual ownership of the estate object of sale, to check the registrations (servitudes, burdens, etc.) and to assess the existence of mortgages or other encumbrances (cautionary attachments, etc.).

At lunch I went to the county registrar of deeds to do some sleuthing.Lender is First Franklin, a division fo National City Bank out of San Jose, CA(Wikipedia indicates First Franklin was bought by National City Corp & Merrill Lynch, which was in turn bought by BOA & PNC Financial Services)Also listed was MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registry System), P.O.

Ultimately if it's readily available at the registrars office and it's publicly available than an agent should have no problem helping you with this.

The next of kin who I have been in touch with said the deceased owner didn't have a will, so they would have to go open up an estate at the Registrar of Wills and go through the process to take possession.

It turned out the Registrar of Deeds had accepted a forged deed and several mortgages based on it. 

Despite laws in some states that require the buyers or sellers in all contracts for deed to record the sale in the office of the county recorder or registrar of titles within a specified time period, the sales often go unrecorded due to a lack of financial and legal sophistication on the part of both parties involved in the agreement.Before the rise of subprime lending in the 1990 s, many buyers who were unable to qualify for traditional financing resorted to contracts for deed.