They could be misunderstanding their lease contract and he can explain it to them.I am not at all a fan of cash for keys for a number of reasons.

The clerk is only human and may give you wrong information if they misunderstand your question.It sounds like your goal is simply to search records or obtain a list of party names/mailing addresses of certain court record types.

@Nathan James Flesher You're right, I did misunderstand a little bit of where you're at.

Just seems like they are trolling for more business or it could be a misunderstanding and they just assumed you had an agent and were ready to place an offer.

Very helpful. upon consideration, I think the loan was probably an short term ARM and that’s where the misunderstanding came from. 

I have found the additional context in our NY property laws that answers my question though and fortunately it looks like the misunderstanding will only cost me $400.

Folks who say that they won't for fear of economic turmoil in my opinion seriously misunderstand the Fed's role, purpose, and leadership.- This is not a good time to be speculative or to think "buy low, sell high", because interest rates rising will drive down asset prices on any business, real estate, or speculative asset that you can borrow against. - It's a fine time to buy assets that are likely to see cash flow increase with inflation, so long as you can live with the market prices of those assets falling in the short-term or medium term. - The US is still the best economy in the world, the dollar still the best currency.

Apologies if I completely misunderstand cost segregation study.Thanks a lot!

I may be misunderstanding but are you accounting property tax and insurance as 5% each?

Something tells me this is either a misunderstanding or something to do with your lot.