Just because the title company says it has been recorded, doesn't mean that it was. It should have a stamped receipt from the county, and it should be available in the county records office. During the housing boom in 2006 or so, a lot of mortgages were bought and sold very quickly, and the mortgage holders never bothered to actually record the deed at the county office. When they tried to foreclose on the mortgage, some of them couldn't because the county records showed another mortgage holder, that was often a bank that was no longer in business. The official owner of a property is who the county says it is.
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