Title Mentor: A Guide to Researching Land Ownership in Ohio

This step-by-step guide to Title Abstracting will introduce these topics: -Creating a surface chain to find previous property owners - Following a mineral reservation forward to find current mineral interest holders - Finding any leases and assignments of leases on the property - Discovering easements, rights of way, mortgages and liens that may affect the property - The vocabulary you'll need to know to read mortgages/deeds/leases/estates/auditor records/tax maps