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Category Archives: News & Public Service Announcements
Public Service Announcement: Mandatory Cover Sheet
IMPORTANT RECORDING NOTICE
MANDATORY COVER SHEET – EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 2017
Dear Recording Customer:
In compliance with P.L. 2011, c. 217 (N.J.S.A.46:26A-5) our office must require a Cover Sheet with all individual land documents submitted for recording effective Monday, May 1, 2017.
If you submit land documents to our office for recording via U.S. Mail, Express Mail, Courier Service or In-Person Over
Public Service Announcement: How to protect your home from scam artists
How people can secretly steal your property in New Jersey
Bishop Frank Garris Jr. knew something wasn’t right when he tried to do a walk-through of the Newark church he had just closed on.
He wanted to inspect the property, but the alarm at Clinton Avenue Presbyterian Church wouldn’t shut off – even after Garris entered the code to do so. Read More
Legislative Black Caucus Hearings Help Formulate Policy
Essex County’s Register of Deeds and Mortgages told lawmakers too many home owners, many of them elderly, are losing their properties to scams — fake and forged deeds filed and successfully recorded to change ownership illegally — because New Jersey law doesn’t allow the registers to “police” the documents… Read More
