Even $3 is high for just a copy of the deed. I always do my own title search when buying property. You go to the courthouse and you just go back one page at a

Even $3 is high for just a copy of the deed. I always do my own title search when buying property. You go to the courthouse and you just go back one page at a time. Each deed references the previous ones. You copy each on the photocopier there which if you live in a fair and reasonable county costs 10-25 cents a page. Or you can even bring your own scanner in if you like. Go back 100 years or so. Then at your leisure later review each of these for liens and encumbrances. And also whack problems with the boundary descriptions, or questionable issues with right of way. Doing this is way more valuable than paying hundreds to somebody to hand you off something they are pretending to be a proper title search.