Lisa,

You have no idea. That is the bottom line. You know what is going on in one of the FIFTY states, and you are imposing ideals that you THINK should be followed by everyone, though it is independent of any actual knowledge of systems operate outside opf Texas.

Ultimately, it should not even matter to you whether others are searching online, or how anyone else completes their work. You have to worry about how YOU complete your work. If YOU choose to not use online resources that are available to you, that is YOUR choice.

YOUR CHOICE.

However, your choice should not be a mandate for how everyone does their work. If nothing else, from a very cynical standpoint, those mistakes mean more money in your pocket when you have to do the work that others have failed at.

"The only thing I can really not agree with whether I am in your state or not is that from 2003 you cannot get any records at the courthouse - county clerks are liable for the records that are filed with them and have to maintain records.  I may have misunderstood your statement."

It is not a debateable point. The only place that the property documents are readily available is on the Web from 2003 to date. You CAN wait for an original physical copy, but I am not sure how long that would take and wheter it is even possible in all cases.

You have to understand that the City of New York processes over 800 thousand documents in its system each year. The whole premise for the digital system is for the original to NOT remain at the Register, but rather the digital image. This is why documents were put on film, as they occupied far less space.

Let's try to understand the full breadth of a situation before commenting on it. You will notice I have in no way bashed the method used in Texas or anywhere else, and I would appreciate the same in regard to how a search is conducted in NYC...