The Register of Deeds Office is broadcasting an homeowners' alert against the private company National Deed Service, which sends out mass mailings advertising a $59.50 service to obtain the same deed that consumers can obtain directly from Metro for $1.00 per copied page. According to a NewsChannel5 report tonight, a reporter sent $59.50 for a deed to National Deed Service a month ago and she still has not obtained a copy. However, she went down to the Sommet Center and in a manner of minutes picked a copy up for $2.00. She also found out that she could have requested a copy by phone by calling Metro rather than driving Downtown.
National Deed Service is sending out their advertisement on what looks like official, government-like copy, and they are preying on holes in people's informed consent in the process. Don't become National Deed Service's next victim.
UPDATE: A Memphis report from last fall on the National Deed Service scam.
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