The letter from Local Records Office highlights how private companies try to dupe people into paying big bucks for public services they can accomplish themselves for free or a fraction of the cost.
After her husband died, Dani Brusius recently transferred her Ventura County property to her name alone. She paid $2 for a copy of the deed and $1 to certify the change.It wanted $89 for the same service.
When the rest of the package is bending over backward to fool you, however, these disclosures can be easily overlooked. But everything else suggests otherwise. The letter includes publicly available information on the specific property’s assessed value, square footage, year of construction, a “Property ID No.” and a “service fee” of $89.Brusius noted that Local Records Office even splurged on first-class postage. “That makes it look like they’re serious,” she said.
to stop sending “misleading” letters from Local Records Office to local consumers. Similar injunctions subsequently were issued by nearly half a dozen other states.several years ago for allegedly violating state law “at least 256,998 times.” My guess is that letters from Local Records Office are automatically prompted by any change in public property records. When Brusius altered the name on her deed, that may have triggered the solicitation.“We, at Local Records Office, are a legitimate business entity,” it says. “We make it clear that we are not a government agency or are associated with any governmental agency.”
The only reason such companies have to repeatedly declare they’re not government agencies is because they go out of their way to make themselves look like government agencies.Stephen Whitmore, a spokesman for L.A. County Assessor Jeffrey Prang, said homeowners should closely examine any official-looking mailers.
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