Property transfer

There used to be a way to see the houses sold in Hays along with the date sold, parties involved and amount sold. Does anyone know how to access that info?

Try the register of deeds

Go to appraisals here and type in address and hit search. It will bring up current property owners name highlighted. Click on that it will give basic info, but to see sales info you will need to register.


http://www.ecountyworks.com/elliscama/index.asp?page=app_search

Thanks Ratz. Says only appraisers real estate people etc can register.

That's crooked IMO. It sounds like the BS where I work that you can be fired for telling other employees what your wages are or asking theirs.

luv2cook wrote:

Thanks Ratz. Says only appraisers real estate people etc can register.

The more I think about this, the more I don't like it. If those are public records and releasing them is not a risk to national security they should be available to anyone who wants to see them.

It's like the old Sanborn fire insurance maps that showed where all the existing structures, water mains etc. were. The state has them for almost every town from the latter 1800's through the early 1900's but won't let the general public have them. Even public libraries have difficulty in getting the state to send them copies and that's pure bull. I'm getting real tired of public records held by the government not being available to the public.

What reason does the state give for their position on the Sanborn maps?

Ratzilla wrote:

luv2cook wrote:

Thanks Ratz. Says only appraisers real estate people etc can register.

The more I think about this, the more I don't like it. If those are public records and releasing them is not a risk to national security they should be available to anyone who wants to see them.

That's how it is in each county I've lived in. The only people who have access to that information is real estate professionals, or folks in the appraiser's office. I don't get it, either.

Justoo wrote:

What reason does the state give for their position on the Sanborn maps?

I think alot of it stems from animosity archeologists have for private relic hunters. Sad thing is some of the best stuff on display publically was found by private hunters and much of the relics found in archeological digs has "disappeared" from museum inventories. During a fued between California archeologists and private hunters it was discovered as much as 80% of the finds made by state archeologists were unaccounted for.

Make 100K or more a year watching college students find things for you and then make extra selling it out the back door. So naturally with the salary, prestige, and side profit to be made in old artifacts they don't want private citizens knowing where all the historic sites, old wells, cisterns, and privies were that might contain them.