How to Find Home Deeds in Texas - Easily
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 02/19/2020
- Real Estate
The availability of online databases and services certainly can streamline your house deed search. However, there is more to it than logging on and plugging in a few words. You need to know what you are looking at, and what to do if the ...
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How to Find a Deed Online
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/29/2020
- Real Estate
Searching deeds online is a far sight better than traipsing from courthouse to courthouse looking up information on multiple parcels of land. However, there are still ways you can simplify your online search, and make the search tools work ...
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How to Sell Your Property When You've Leased the Mineral Rights
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 11/13/2019
- Real Estate
You have a piece of land that has been pretty good to you. Maybe it was good pastureland or grew terrific crops. Plus, it came with a bonus - you got a lucrative mineral lease from an oil or gas company that developed a productive well. ...
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What is Acquiescence to a Boundary Line?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 09/17/2019
- Real Estate
Robert Frost wrote, “Good fences make good neighbors." Hopefully, that means if the poet next door placed the fence two inches onto Mr. Frost's property, the neighbor took possession by acquiescence. Otherwise, a legal dispute would have ...
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Why Do You Need a Land Survey?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/28/2019
- Real Estate
A land survey is a vital component of land sales and development. Anytime you need to know the boundary lines of a piece of property or the type of features it has, a land survey can provide that information.
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The Red Flag of Lis Pendens – What You Need to Know
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 07/31/2019
- Real Estate
The term lis pendens literally means “a suit pending,” and is often abbreviated as lis pend. If you see this term connected with a piece of property, whether yours or one you are thinking about buying, it means legal action has been filed ...
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How Do Liens Affect Real Estate Sales?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/10/2019
- Real Estate
How is a real estate sale affected by a lien on the property? Certain types of liens may have an impact when you sell or when you buy. A thorough title search can uncover any clouds on a title, including various types of liens that have ...
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What Are the Most Common Types of Real Estate Encumbrances?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/03/2019
- Real Estate
In real estate terms, an encumbrance is a claim on property by an entity other than the title-holder. Encumbrances are obstacles to the use and sale of property by the title-holder and can be considered a cloud on a title.
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What is an Abstract of Judgment and How Can You Find One Online?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 03/13/2019
- Real Estate
One obstacle to a clean title is an Abstract of Judgment, which is a method of placing a lien on real property to pay a legal judgment. If an individual in a lawsuit receives a financial responsibility, any real property is used as ...
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What are Easements and Rights of Way?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 02/20/2019
- Real Estate
It’s a rare piece of property that has no need to allow encroachment of any kind. In most municipalities and counties as well as at the state and federal level, parts of most land parcels must be given over to use by someone other than the ...
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