Saturday 6 December 2014

Doing A New York Lien Search Can Be Easy

By Claudine Hodges


Property liens can be inconvenient when not settled properly. They often show up at the wrong time when you are trying to sell a property or refinance a mortgage. Of course, you have to clear the tax warrants before you can sell the property or the lender can underwrite a new loan.

Luckily, there are a few easy ways to help you do a New York lien search. Finding the records you need is very fast and simple. However, you must bear in mind that the correctness and completeness of the report depends on its source. Some options are better than the others.

Before you start searching, you have to understand property liens first. Basically, the state can secure tax warrants against any individual who fail to pay taxes. This leads to income execution, levy or seizure and sale of property in order to settle the debts. Both the local clerk's office and Department of State are notified of this. Since the record is public in nature, anybody can freely access it. This includes credit reporting agencies, thus, affecting your credit score negatively.

Once a warrant has been filed, the only way to clear it is to pay the debt in full. After you have been cleared, a notice that the tax warrant has been satisfied is filed to the same agencies to finally remove the lien. If the property in question will be sold, the guaranteed funds may be used to pay the debt. In this case, a Notice of Pending Warrant Satisfaction will be issued. Many title companies consider this acceptable and would remove the lien.

All concerned parties should be informed in the event a tax warrant was filed. The details like the amount to be paid, the concerned departments, the points of contact and the property in question are all specified in the notice being sent. Unfortunately, there are possibilities of notices not reaching its intended recipient for one reason or another.

Therefore, it is wise to perform a lien search every time you have plans concerning your properties. Examples include mortgage refinancing and loan applications with the property as collateral among others. This is the surest way to determine if you should proceed with your plans.

The easiest and quickest way to do look for the record is by visiting the state's official website. For searches in Albany NY, you can find the information on liens and tax warrants under Uniform Commercial Code. Selecting State Tax Warrant Notice Search will give you the available search criteria.

You will be asked for certain search criteria like the city in the warrant address record, the warrant status, the taxpayer's name, the search type and the county it was filed in. You have to fill out each one for faster and more accurate result. After you viewed the report, you will have the option to either store it in your machine or print it for future use.

Likewise, you can also visit the office of the local clerk in person. They keep the most recent report with all the complete details. Although the state makes effort to update the data on a regular basis, other factors could possibly cause delay in the updating of data. Above all, you can also ask the staff, who are the specialists in this field, for any inquiries or concerns you have in mind.




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