Scanner Love 6: Abstract House

8th January 2008

According to my banker, Iowa is one of the few states to require that every house have what they call an, “abstract”, or a record of all hands it has been through, mortgage activity, etc. So, when we bought our current house, we got a very neat little folder with pages describing every transaction on our house since 1940 which is rather neat. I thought I would share the first page of our house’s abstract, detailing the first recorded transfer in 1940.

Note the mortgage for $1,200 — I guarantee you we didn’t pay that in 2005! (more like 40+ times that amount)

Posted: on Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 at 14:55.
Filed under: Scanner Love.
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There are currently 2 responses to “Scanner Love 6: Abstract House”

1 On January 8th, 2008, Marie (102 comments) said:
That’s neat! Thanks for sharing part of yours. I like how it tells you exactly where the house is located.

I liked looking at Charles’ house’s abstract and all the things done to it. It’s pretty helpful.
2 On January 9th, 2008, alyndabear (24 comments) said:
I love that it’s an oroiginal record… keep that for the scrapbooks!

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