{"id":32637,"date":"2026-04-06T11:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=32637"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:10:44","slug":"leases-and-rental-agreements-are-not-usually-recorded-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/leases-and-rental-agreements-are-not-usually-recorded-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leases And Rental Agreements Are Not Usually Recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While practices can vary, real estate property leases are typically not recorded in the United States. Copies of the lease are kept by all parties involved.  If there was an issue with the lease itself or a need to legally enforce the terms of the lease, the records of the resulting court case may include a copy of the lease or mention its terms. If one of the parties involved died while the lease was still in effect, the lease may be recorded in their probate case file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One ancestor was renting property when he died in Illinois in 1877 and that agreement was included as evidence in his estate settlement. In another case there was a disagreement over the terms and the lease was recorded as evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually if there are no \u201cissues\u201d with a lease, there\u2019s no reason to have it recorded. And\u2026in these cases the agreement was not really \u201crecorded\u201d like a land deed would be recorded. It was evidence in a court proceeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While practices can vary, real estate property leases are typically not recorded in the United States. Copies of the lease are kept by all parties involved. If there was an issue with the lease itself or a need to legally enforce the terms of the lease, the records of the resulting court case may include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}