Posted on 06/04/2017 8:27:40 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Silver City is nice. I don’t live too far from there, used to go there pretty often to shop but these days I go in a different direction so I can visit kids and grand kids when I go to town. I grew up near Flagstaff, AZ and Silver City reminds me of Flagstaff or at least the Flagstaff I remember.
My dad sold a ranch in 1961 and in the 1980s he was contacted because when the people he sold to began the process to sell it there was a little piece of it that was still in my dad’s name. It was pretty odd, he signed off on it with no issue to help them settle it because as he told the man he intended to sell him the whole ranch and it was just an error at the clerk’s office when it was recorded. I often wonder how much that used to happen years ago. The man was lucky my dad was honest and willing to just sign off on it to correct the error; it could have been a legal mess I imagine.
The entire industry of title insurance is built around how poor the records are. It’s still happening, records traces can be complicated as people divide and combine parcel, and mean to combine parcels but don’t get all the i’s dotted (probably what happened in this case). And parcels get abandoned, my grandmother had bough some “spec” land in New Mexico that civilization was going to grow to any day, 30 years later she dies we poke around on the internet trying to decide if the land is worth anything, find the entire “development” is in a state of chaotic nothing where things are still being sold and nothing built, and town is still 20 miles away, so we just say “forget it” and toss the deeds. Someday someone will hate us for that.
We also realize that he had to go
And fill this one last cavity.
We were there from 1973-1986. We loved it.
We lived in Las Cruces for 9 months when I first moved to NM. My wife hated it. So I showed her this small town in the mountains called Silver City, we moved and she never complained again. smile.
I got a promotion to the Home office in 1986. Left the company in 1988. smile. (swore I’d not be back in the same business, changed industries, 3 months later I would up with another company like the first. Spent 35 years in the business.)
I’m not an authority, but Tom is pretty good at this.
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