David: You bring this up every time I mention "on-line' systems- as you can clearly see from all the ones that are now available- NONE of them acknowledge that the information is the "official record" since it is a copy of the original that was produced for recording-and all of them have the same disclaimer- if I go into the respective court house with my laptop and bring up the exact same document side by side in the record room from their computer systems,  they are the same - but one has a disclaimer on it- so which one is the one that you would provide to your client- which one would you profess to your E&O carrier that is it not the real thing- and which one would you decide not to provide because of it's potential of not being the "official record", or do you actually provide certified copies with all of your searches,and that has to be impossible since you fax your reports from a mobile location, which might be just as insecure as any other way of delivery also.

The only true document that can be obtained for legal actions would have to be a certified true copy and those are still available for that purpose as needed from the web site- only difference is I have to go into the record room and pick it up my self. The cost for those is $3.00 plus the fee for each page of the document- would make it difficult to do a search for anything less than a couple hundred dollars just to break even.

I do not see your proliferation of posting SS #'s on the site either- while they are there because the document preparers were/are ignorant about the laws and requested the notaries to note them on the acknowledgment page or they are on a page that was not supposed to get recorded- all just errors that a careful recorder would and should pick up and correct before it is recorded in the land records.

Steve Meinecke

Franklin, Tn