I couldn't agree more. We are getting more and more requests for current owner seraches and I have heard that claims from these types of searches are on the rise. The abstractor can not be blamed if the client only asks for a current owner search and there are still liens against the previous owner. (Thank God)
As for the technology... it seems to me that the county offices aren't as familiar with the technology as they should be. When they enter something wrong, it is lost forever. We have spent a lot of time on some of these current owner searches because things are sometimes very difficult to find on the computer. One of the large "slum lords" here has hundreds of entries in the computer and his company name is entered 13 different ways! Think how long it takes to check them all. The computer hasn't necessarily made this easier.
Just my $0.02!
Robert
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