From what I have seen, the quitclaim deed in my state and the one in another state are formated the same. So Heineman and Johnson's office probably fill out the forms and mail them to the "client" for them to take to a notary who may not have a clue about the title industry. Again, the notary only acknowledges that the person signing the document in their presence is the person that they say they are. Then as in my county's case, the "client" walks the quitclaim deed in to the Registry to have it recorded by a county clerk who does not have a clue about the title industry.
From what some SOT abstractors have said on this message board, some Registrars are active in screening the recordings and are refusing to record Heineman's documents. I applaud those Registrars who remember that they are responsible to the people who put them in office, if they are elected officials.
One Registrar in a rural county in NC refuses to put the documents on line because he says it is his civic duty to protect these documents. He said that if the identities of the people in his county were stolen that it would affect the whole infrastructure of the town. He's right. When this happens to one, it happens to all of us.
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