{"id":1043,"date":"2013-09-17T19:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T00:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2013-09-17T19:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T00:45:28","slug":"companies-charging-homeowners-for-free-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/companies-charging-homeowners-for-free-information\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPANIES CHARGING HOMEOWNERS for FREE INFORMATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several city homeowners have recently reported receiving notices from a company offering to provide them with a copy of their property deed for an $83 payment.\u00a0 However, the mailings fail to mention one thing:\u00a0 homeowners can obtain a copy of their deeds themselves for a fraction of the cost &#8211; possibly even at no charge &#8211; simply by contacting their county clerk&#8217;s office.\u00a0 The mailings imply that homeowners must comply within a specified period of time.\u00a0 While the mailing does state that it is not a bill and homeowners are under no obligation to pay the fee, some consumers have found the mailing confusing and have issued complaints their local BBB office.\u00a0 Nothing illegal or wrong, but the banner print and inset boxes on the note give so- called\u00a0 &#8216;compliance response dates,&#8221; which seem to demand attention and action, but the small print at the bottom of the notice says it not necessary to pay.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Several company names who issue the notices are Property Transfer Service and Record Transfer Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several city homeowners have recently reported receiving notices from a company offering to provide them with a copy of their property deed for an $83 payment.\u00a0 However, the mailings fail to mention one thing:\u00a0 homeowners can obtain a copy of their deeds themselves for a fraction of the cost &#8211; possibly even at no charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}