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How Can I Prepare a Deed and Have it Recorded

Tokapeba

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I just sold my timeshare and want to see what is involved in doing the paperwork myself. The buyer and I will both be in the resorts city next week and it's only a 20 min drive to the recorders office.

Andy.
 

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Take your old deed that shows the legal description, copy it, whiteout the names and change them. Have a notary sign an acknowledgement. Take or mail to the recorder's office. The end. After it's recorded, send- or take to the resort or mgmt. company.

You could retype the whole mess, but why?

Jim
 

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use your deed as a guide copy it exactly (except of course for the names and addresses of buyer and seller and how they want to take title) sign it in front of a notary and take it to the court house

I just did one in Orleans Parish, La. They publish some instruction on line...maybe your county does too. Or call
 

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As seller you don't have much to worry about so long as the buyer's check is good. But if all the buyer does is take the deed from you and record it, they're trusting that you actually own what you sold them, you haven't sold it to anyone else before them, you haven't put a mortgage on the property, you're up to date on the maintenance, etc.

At the minimum a prudent buyer will get an estoppel letter from the resort and they'll do a title search. (Not that they couldn't do it themselves if they're a bit resourceful).
 

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I just sold my timeshare and want to see what is involved in doing the paperwork myself. The buyer and I will both be in the resorts city next week and it's only a 20 min drive to the recorders office.

Andy.

I am assuming you are in California.

From the time you probably purchased most counties in California now request a PRELIMINARY CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP REPORT (Search on that term within the County the T/S is located in for the PDF form/

The resort may require an official stamped copy of the deed, which might not be available immediately, additionally the ownership transfer might need to be done at another location. As the seller you want to control the process trough getting it out of your name.



 

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If you do this, make sure you copy EVERY detail of the original deed. Cutting corners on something may render it invalid.

It is legal in every state I know of, for a party to the transaction, buyer or seller, to prepare the deed themselves. In some states, like North Carolina, that would only be different if a corporation which was the party purported to prepare the deed.

As a practical matter, from timeshare deeds I have seen recorded on the NC OBX, the odds of a do-it-yourself owner deed preparer getting it right and recording a valid deed is MUCH higher than the odds of a multi-state timeshare closing company which uses out of state laypeople to prepare deeds doing so.
 
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