Yesterday, I went down to the county Recorder’s office to look up information on my girlfriend’s townhouse. This was just for practice, but I think I did pretty well. I made friends with some of the title company people and with Daniel who works there. People in Alabama are pretty cool, friendly and nice. After I assured Nan, the title lady, that I didn’t work for the IRS or for a scummy mortgage company she was happy to show me the ropes there. The computer system there is pretty hard to use, but she flew through it. I’ve got a Computer Science degree and I kept going to the wrong places. Oh well. She says she’s been doing it for years. You can even look up the tax assesor information all from one place.

I told Yara that I went and she was amazed. Apparently when I lived with her before, I told her that I was going to go down there and start to build my real estate empire. I guess I never got around to it, but the first day home since going to KC I went out. She was glad to see that I’m taking action. I told her to stay on my case about that. I’m planning on going back for lunch to look up our neighbor’s information and some of the other houses that have sold recently. It’s amazing what is in the public records.