When you’re involved with fraud investigations, asset recovery, judgment enforcement, settling property claims, or ensuring a business’s financial stability, you’ll need to check recorded documents, an important type of public record. While full of information about properties, owners, and lenders, these records—deeds, mortgages, tax liens, and more—can be confusing and difficult to locate. They are often scattered across multiple agencies, each with access rules.  

Learn from Marcy Phelps, a professional investigator, and Certified Fraud Examiner, about recorded documents, why they’re so valuable to researchers and investigators, the challenges involved in working with these types of public records, and best practices for quickly finding the documents and information you need.

Learning Objectives

• Discover what a recorded document is, the reasons for recording, and the different types of recorded documents.
• Explore the value of recorded documents for investigators and researchers and what information they can find.
• Recognize the challenges of finding and using recorded documents for research and investigations.
• Identify the best sources for recorded documents and how to search for the different types of documents quickly and efficiently.

Course Outline

Introduction
Defining and Identifying a Recorded Document
Reasons to Search Recorded Documents
Challenges when Searching Recorded Documents
How to Search Recorded Documents: Part 1
How to Search Recorded Documents: Part 2
Summary & Conclusion

Supporting Downloadable/Printable Materials:
Recorded Documents: Slide Deck/Handout
Glossary

ASSESSMENT/QUIZ

Key features of this course include:

• 1 hour of video lecture with practical and engaging content
• Content authored by experts in their field
• Quiz/assessment (unlimited attempts)
• Certificate of completion