Now I realize that both foreclosures and estates are conducted differently in different areas, but a searcher I know just ran across something that I found interesting, here in Ohio. 

He was given a property address & a name to search for a foreclosure search.  While doing the search, he discovered that the current grantee was deceased.  He reported the estate, got the document the client required, ran the clerk of courts & did not find anything more.

When asked to do an update, he knew that he should find a foreclosure, but in running clerk of courts every way he could think of, he found none.  Upon calling his client, he discovered that the foreclosure was filed against the executor of the estate (as an individual).  The indexing only had the executors name listed.  His question was, "How was he suppose to find this"  He tried every way he could think of to run  the deceased person, heirs of, estate of, her name only----Nothing comes up!!  So does this mean that we have to run the executors names on all of our searches? 

Personally I think that this was a mistake on the part of the person filing the foreclosure and the clerk of courts in indexing.  But unfortunately we as abstractors seem to be running into more and more of this sort of problem.  I would like to see someone do this one "on-line".

Wanda Steudel
AccuSearch Co.