Lowell Deeds

We received our first electronic recordings from Simplifile late this morning. A set of six documents was submitted by a local law office and recorded by us without any difficulties. This is further evidence of the explosive expansion of electronic recording that is now underway. In addition to this e-filing news, we also made a slight modification to our scan and return process to better prepare ourselves for the complete transition to that method of recording next Monday morning. Now, when a document is recorded, we immediately scan it and return it to the customer. In today’s change, we have asked the customers to move to the Customer Service area which is where their documents will be returned. (Formerly, the customer just stood around the recording counter area, creating a feeling that it was more crowded than it really was). We have also injected a verification step into the process. Before the documents are handed back to the customer, one of our employees checks the images to confirm that we have good images before the original documents are handed back to the customer.