E-Recording First for Minnesota

The first Level II electronic mortgage document has been recorded in Minnesota, according to U.S. Recordings, St. Paul, Minn.The company said the Minnesota Real Estate Electronic Recording Task Force established the guidelines for various levels of document recordings. Level II electronic recording includes documents that are generated in paper form, signed and notarized with a wet signature, then scanned and sent in electronic form to the county along with indexing data. To date, six counties in the state are approved in an ERER Task Force pilot to receive Level II electronic documents: Clay, Dakota, Martin, Renville, Scott, and Wabasha counties. Dakota County Recorder Joel Beckman said the Level II submission of a mortgage by U.S. Recordings "was seamless and efficient, and we hope that electronic recording will continue to expand." Dakota County operates with Fidlar software to receive documents from U.S. Recordings.