Title Searches
Easements and Restrictions
Copies of Instruments
How to release a mortgage
Taxes
Tennessee Department of Revenue Conveyance and Mortgage
Taxes?
Changing a deed
Preparing a Deed, Mortgage, Release, etc.
Conveying Right-Of-Ways or Easements
The Register of Deed's office does not perform title searches. You may contact the
attorney or title company of your choice to issue an attorney's title opinion or to have a
title search on property.
The Register's Office does not perform title searches. In order to find all of the
easements and restrictions on a certain property, one would have to perform a title
search. If you have a title policy on the property in question, refer to schedule
"B" for reference to any restrictions and easements that apply to the property.
We will be glad to view a copy of your recorded deed and report the book and page of any
easements or restrictions mentioned on the deed.
The Register's Office will be glad to mail any requested copies of deeds. The proper
procedure is for one to call the office at (423) 209-6560. Upon request the information
clerk will look up the deed and report the number of pages in the instrument. One would
then send a request of the specific Book and Page of the instrument and enclose .50 per
page requested. Please include the return address for the copies to be mailed to, and a
phone number. Send the request to Pam Hurst, Register, 625 Georgia Ave., Room 400
Courthouse Bldg., and Chatt., TN 37402.
When one pays off a mortgage, it is the responsibility of the mortgage holder to
release the Deed of Trust. Tennessee Code 66-25-102 recites the penalty for failure of the
mortgage holder to release the instrument promptly.
Many times when a mortgage company sends a release for a borrower, the company requests
the release to be mailed back to the mortgage company. Then the company generally forwards
it to the customer. Please, contact the mortgage company or holder of the mortgage if you
recently paid off a loan and have questions about the release of your mortgage.
- For current county tax information
please call the Hamilton County Trustee,
(423)209-7270.
- For county back tax information
please call the Back Tax Office, (423) 209-7272.
- For Chattanooga city tax information
please call the City Treasurer's Office, (423) 757-5191.
For further questions about the taxes collected in the Register of Deed's Office,
please contact Diann Schneider, Tennessee Department of Revenue, 6th Floor Andrew Jackson
State Office Building, 500 Deaderick, Nashville, TN 37242, (615) 741-9295, & Fax (615)
741-5319.
For further questions about the taxes collected in the Register of Deed's Office,
please contact Diann Schneider, Tennessee
Department of Revenue, 6th Floor Andrew Jackson State Office Building, 500 Deaderick,
Nashville, TN 37242, (615) 741-9295, & Fax (615) 741-5319.
A title company or attorney should prepare any new deed. Always record the deed in the
Register of Deed's office as soon as possible.
One should have all legal documents prepared by an attorney or title company. Once
prepared correctly, the documents should be recorded immediately in the Register's Office.
For your convenience, click here to see the current fee schedule
for recording documents.. Recording of all legal documents is subject to that document's
meeting all legal requirements, and to the payment of applicable fees.
An attorney or title company should prepare any document to convey a right-of-way or
easement. To grant a right-of-way or easement, please, contact a professional for
preparation of the instruments. Always record the completed document in the Register of
Deed's Office as soon as possible.
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