Reminds me of a situation last week where someone was "searching" for a gas easement on their land. They just thought they would pull the deed and it would be there (it wasn't - duh). Then they went into the lease room (where I was working) and pulled ONE book, found a lease, and declared it must be the gas lease and started complaining about not receiving royalties on that lease. Just curious, I looked over my shoulder and saw a nice big, red cancelled stamp on the page she was reading. I asked the woman if that was what they thought was their lease and she said it was. I then informed her it was cancelled (read the stamp) and she got very upset and wanted to see the release. Then she demanded the recorder explain the cancelled lease to her. Even the recorder was confused, since it was clearly cancelled what was the question?? Anyway I just told her briefly how she needed to go through all the books, looking at every property owner who had owned that parcel of land, pull every document found, read them, and MAYBE she would find the lease. She just got more upset and started yelling at me she couldn't afford to pay an attorney to find this stuff and she was told she could do it herself and why would someone make it that hard. I ended up walking away since I don't need to be yelled at for pointing out a lease was cancelled and how to find one. I truly try not to get involved in those types of situations, but I thought I was being "nice" to point out it was cancelled. HA!

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