I am transferring title between myself personally and an entity in several Texas Counties, and I asked my attorney to draw a template deed, where I could enter the county name and record the deeds in the various counties. He had me get a PO Box number to put in the deed, and I am wondering about the merits of also including an email address.
Any thoughts?
Do you want the whole world knowing your email address. If you put it in the Deed and put the Deed of record that is what will happen
Well, I do want Landmen to find me. If I move or get married and change my name, it could be difficult. Address changes stop after 6 months or so, and I won’t have a reason to keep my landline after my mother is gone, because she’s the only person who still uses it. So what is cost free and permanent that I could put in a deed?
If you move or have name change, you can always file an affidavit from yourself as affiant to the public. You can do that everytime you marry like Liz Taylor, or everytime you move. There is no need to view the filing of the deed as one and done. The affidavit could be styled Affidavit of Ownership or Affidavit of Name Change, and include all of the information you wanted to impart to a title searcher, like married name, new address etc... I wouldn't agree that the whole world would know your email address if you put it in the deed. The whole world gets on facebook, but the whole world doesn't do courthouse type research. Relative to the population of the world, only a demented few do that, and that comes and goes.
Thanks, Dave. Hadn’t considered that. Appreciate you and Charles weighing in. I am also looking down the road. I have minerals in eastern Montana that probably won’t be drilled in my lifetime, and I want my kids to be found. The deeds I have from the fifties don’t have addresses in them, and a landman found me from my landline. They (landlines not landmen) seem to be going the way of the dodo. Now it seems to be standard practice to include an mailing address in a deed.
It's good that you are weighing these issues as a responsible mineral owner. There is really no permanent solution though. It's a continual process.
Well said!
Just as an FYI
Every document that I record, I put my name, permanent address and permanent e-mail at the very end of the document, where you said
Filed by and return to:
Jane Doe
Permanent Address
Permanent e-mail
Buddy Cotten
Hi Buddy, As always you give great advice.
Appreciate your wisdom, Mr. Cotten. Thanks for weighing in.