Posted on: 04th Jun, 2009 09:30 am
my husband and i purchased a home in my city approximately on year ago and all is well with our house title. however, i recently received a call from an attorney for a title company saying a completely different title for a completely different house in our city also has our names on it due to some type of clerical mistake. he wants us to sign a quit claim deed in order to fix the error. is this as simple as this lawyer makes it sound, or should i be looking into this further before i sign anything?
Hi Lisachristenson!
Welcome to forums!
In my opinion, the attorney is correct in saying that you need to sign a quitclaim deed in order to remove your name from the other property. You can personally visit the attorney and check out the papers and then sign it.
Feel free to ask if you have further queries.
Sussane
Welcome to forums!
In my opinion, the attorney is correct in saying that you need to sign a quitclaim deed in order to remove your name from the other property. You can personally visit the attorney and check out the papers and then sign it.
Feel free to ask if you have further queries.
Sussane
i would absolutely look into it further.
Hello there,
A similar situation happened in my family due to an error at the clerk's office many, many years beforehand. The property had been sold by my family member for an agreed price to a buyer; however, the deed wasn't properly filed/recorded at the clerk's office and the new grantee was never recognized. Adding to the problem was the transferring of this same property to a living trust after the date of the sale (simple typo on a deed for similar property). When the "grantee" was attempting to close on the sale of same property, the title showed as not clear. After being contacted by the closing attorney's office, we examined the documents and signed them after recognizing the error. There would be no value to gain by protesting a valid sale that was recorded in error. In addition, if you tried to legally protest a transaction that was obviously not fraudulent in nature, you would probably gain nothing more than a heap of legal fees. Remember, this could happen to you at your own closing so you know the old saying that what goes around, comes around.
Hope this has helped.
A similar situation happened in my family due to an error at the clerk's office many, many years beforehand. The property had been sold by my family member for an agreed price to a buyer; however, the deed wasn't properly filed/recorded at the clerk's office and the new grantee was never recognized. Adding to the problem was the transferring of this same property to a living trust after the date of the sale (simple typo on a deed for similar property). When the "grantee" was attempting to close on the sale of same property, the title showed as not clear. After being contacted by the closing attorney's office, we examined the documents and signed them after recognizing the error. There would be no value to gain by protesting a valid sale that was recorded in error. In addition, if you tried to legally protest a transaction that was obviously not fraudulent in nature, you would probably gain nothing more than a heap of legal fees. Remember, this could happen to you at your own closing so you know the old saying that what goes around, comes around.
Hope this has helped.