{"id":1766,"date":"2021-05-17T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dukescountydeeds.com\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2021-05-17T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:08:25","slug":"consumer-alert-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/massrods.com\/dukes\/consumer-alert-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are out of state companies that continue to to prey on unsuspecting homeowners by sending a direct mail solicitation asking them to send a check for $83\/$95 in order to receive a copy of their deed or other assessment information.<\/p>\n

They are often labeled as \u201cRecorded Deed Notice\u201d and request that the homeowner send them a check for a copy of their deed and \u201cproperty assessment profile\u201d. The Registry has been contacted by several individuals who have received this kind of solicitation. Please do not fall for this scam.<\/p>\n

While the deed direct mail solicitation may be legal, it is by no means ethical. Clearly, this is a scam being perpetrated against the hard-working residents of our county, many of whom are first-time homeowners or elderly. Consumers are interpreting these notices as a bill, since they are affixed with a respond by date.<\/p>\n

Please note you may obtain a certified copy of your deed from the Dukes County Registry of Deeds at the cost of $1 per page. You may also access our records at no cost by going to masslandrecords.com<\/a>. For assessment information, you may contact your town assessor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

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There are out of state companies that continue to to prey on unsuspecting homeowners by sending a direct mail solicitation asking them to send a check for $83\/$95 in order to receive a copy of their deed or other assessment information. They are often labeled as \u201cRecorded Deed Notice\u201d and request that the homeowner send […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/massrods.com\/dukes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/massrods.com\/dukes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/massrods.com\/dukes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massrods.com\/dukes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massrods.com\/dukes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/massrods.com\/dukes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/massrods.com\/dukes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massrods.com\/dukes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massrods.com\/dukes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}