For the most recent day available on line (November 7th) Montgomery County, Maryland deeds in the morning were recorded in Liber 55188...by the end of the day they were on Liber 55195.
That seems like an awful lot of books for one day. How many pages in the average book?
Do they fill up one book before beginning another? Or does this just mean that there where 8 clerks working that day, each with a book? I believe that around 100 deeds are recorded on an average day in the local counties.
Jim Frame, post: 455417, member: 10 wrote: That seems like an awful lot of books for one day. How many pages in the average book?
999 (I believe)
Must have finally got around to filing all the new easements needed to build that superhighway to Hell and back everyone is always talking about.
Mark Mayer, post: 455418, member: 424 wrote: Do they fill up one book before beginning another? Or does this just mean that there where 8 clerks working that day, each with a book? I believe that around 100 deeds are recorded on an average day in the local counties.
The actual 'book' comes later in the process...the staff assigned the book and page digitally when the deed intake occurs.. The person recording gets a receipt that list the book & page. To be honest, I don't even know if there are actual books, or if the entire process is digital...I don't think I've been in a courthouse deed room since 2005 or so
Mark Mayer, post: 455418, member: 424 wrote: around 100 deeds are recorded on an average day
With all the certificates, affidavits, intake sheets, etc that are added to a deed in that county you're looking at 10-15 pages per deed. Add a 20-30 page mortgage recorded at the same time, seller's mortgage releases and 100 deeds adds up to a lot of pages. Throw in 50 easements a dozen 40+ page covenants, condo declarations, condo bylaws etc.
It would take this county a year to fill that many volumes, average is 5,000+ documents per year.
Actually there are no more new volumes here since 2005 when the county went all digital on new recordings.
When the internet is down, and that is more frequent than believable, no research can be done as there are no saved digital records in house.
Some sort of rule by the company that provides the service.
Los Angeles County Recorder usually records 2 million+ documents a year, about 8,000 a day.