During our webinar in April 2014, our team provided important information concerning our services for the oil and gas industry. After recapping the webinar session, we wanted to provide a refresher of some of the essential concepts associated with our Landman Tools. Let’s take a look at 5 important questions and their answers:
1. What exactly do the Landman Tools include?
CourthouseDirect.com provides document images for statewide and nationwide counties. We serve around 1,000 counties across the country by providing document images for real property like deeds, mortgages, gas leases, and other property records. Another main Landman Tool is CourthouseDirect.com’s grantor/grantee indexes, which includes roughly 100 counties across Texas. While this area of the company has room to grow, the search features of our index are more specific and more sophisticated than the county clerks’ system.
2. What is a scanning crew?
Scanning crews visit courthouses to scan as many records as possible for CourthouseDirect.com databases. From handwritten grantor/grantee indexes to deed records, we want to makes sure our database offers an appealing alternative to regular county search options.
3. Can I access the grantor/grantee index from a specific county?
CourthouseDirect.com holds one of the largest real property record online databasesin the state of Texas. With an abundance of information, we are equipped to provide a Landman with specific search results from a specific county within the dates we have available. For example, if a Landman was interested in searching for the grantor/grantee index from Bastrop County, Texas from 1837-1973, CourthouseDirect.com is able to provide highly relevant search results for that search.
4. What is the advantage of CourthouseDirect.com’s records?
Having access to online databases offers a variety of advantages not found at the country clerk office. One of the biggest advantages is the ability to keep information highly organized throughout a search. For example, when looking at a drilling survey, the cards are kept in order the same way they would be at a title company. However, the risk of messing up the order of the deck is eliminated withonline researching. The cards will never be out of order.
5. How does the geo-index work?
CourthouseDirect.com’s indexed title plants are organized in the geo index, and our system makes it possible to search for specific lots, blocks and more. Simply select a specific county, and start searching by volume and page number of the subdivision plat. The process works like a Google search, and it provides color-coated results to indicate good matches.
The scope of the tools for landmen is vast and our basic CourthouseDirect.com tools provide a solid foundation for landmen to start working smarter while blowing past the competition.
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