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There is a difference between there being a record of it in some county's database and a team of Treasury department and federal law enforcement members scrutinizing the sale (and being given additional records on it from the intermediaries involved).

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Right. The difference is that you don't NEED a whole damn team to do financial forensics on the sale if the actual owner is recorded on the fucking plat map.

For normal people docs with equivalent or more info are definitely provided to tons of intermediaries and available to the gov.

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