@Ian Walsh  NO BUBBLE when your talking the finest grape growing region in the Entire US and second only to the very best of the French growing sites... there is only a finite amount of it.and there are more rich multi millioniares and billionares that buy this stuff than there is land to go around...

So all my lots bordered county road and I had to come through the lots to get to my tree farm and use my established logging roads which are pretty stout as they have to handle 40k pound trucks full of the northwest finest douglas fir logs.. on one section I was able to dedicate the road way through the parcels to my gate onon my southern entrance the lot crossed my logging road.. so I retained an easement for ingress egress and utilities. as I was working on a monster Zip line park ( but that's another story). so the buyer of the 10 acre parcels wanted animals and as such he wanted at gate at the beginning of his property and were my gate was at our common boarder.. at first we were a little miffed as we now had to open two gates instead of one....

Feb 2017As I was traveling, I was growing my furnished rental business, hired a business manager, 3 team members, and finally got started on some processes and procedures.

I called the town to ask about the procedure and was told to just send the originals with a self addressed envelope and after 4-6 weeks it will be recorded and I get them back.  

I am not familiar with any of the books so comment there, but I do agree with @Ned Carey re: the laws differ so much state-to-state and the procedures county-by-county that you need to find someone who is familiar with the specific jurisdiction in which you plan to invest.

We have had to adjust some of our procedures based on how the magistrate judge wants things done, even though we shouldn't have to based on the law.

But the standard forms miss a lot of things like move out procedure, what is damage and not, who is responsible for pest control, mowing lawn etc etc.Other option besides an attorney is to hire a property manager as management firms typically have their own leases

I know I was late with this by I started legal procedures in dec. we technically do not have a lease because I never sent him a signed copy but we are going under the assumption that we have one.

This is standard operating procedure for banks.

What organization oversees real estate closing procedures?