§ 1169 Recording Real Property Instruments

• •Instruments that affect real property must be recorded with the County Recorder of the county where the property is located.
• •Recording occurs after the instrument is properly acknowledged, proved, and certified.
• •The statute has been in effect since 1872 and was amended in 1873-74.

You sign a deed to sell your house and need to take the signed paper to the Recorder's office in the county where the house is located to have it recorded.

The law requires the document to be recorded with the Recorder of the county where the real property is situated, so the deed is officially entered into public records there.