The County/City needs to make a giant leap into this century and administer their tax roles/assessment data and have that information available to the recording clerks so they can simply cross reference the grantors on the deeds to match with the data they "should" have as the current owners- this is not all that difficult to accomplish- other counties/cities are able to proceed like this to make sure of the correct sellers are listed. A background check would be an unnecessary action and sounds like there might be some link to the council man for that too. Why would they go so far as to make it a requirement to do a background check? How current would that possible be? Another waste of tax payer dollars being offered! Unless you are somehow linked to a PI service- which it more than likely is.

Steve Meinecke