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County clerk warns residents of expensive ploy
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By Art Cusano
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Putnam County Clerk Dennis Sant is urging county residents to beware of an ongoing ploy that has residents paying significantly more for a copy of their property deeds than the really need to.
Sant warns that a company called New York Retrieval Inc. is mailing letters to residents saying it will retrieve a certified copy of the resident’s deed from the clerk’s office and mail it back to them for $59.50
The problem, Sant said, is that price is about $56 more than the clerk’s office charges for such a request.
“We routinely provide a certified copy of a person’s deed for a fee of $4 plus the cost of copying each page at 25 cents per page,” Sant said.
Sant said the county only accepts checks, money orders or cash, while the company in question is asking for credit card numbers, another red flag.
Any resident with questions concerning legal documents can call the Putnam County Clerk’s Office at (845) 225-3641. The Westchester County Clerk’s Office can be reached at (914) 995-3080.
Sant said that he has received five letters of complaint from residents about the ploy recently, but in the past had received 30 to 40 complaints about it. He said that what the company is doing is legal, just expensive.
“I tell them (residents) it’s legit, but I can do it for a lot cheaper,” Sant said.
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