Can anyone in DeSoto Parish go to the clerks office and get a copy of a gas lease?
Remember it is not what is in the lease that is most important it is what is "not in the lease" which can come back to bite you.
I want to see a copy of a recently signed gas lease. I am 700 miles away and can not do this myself.
If you get a copy and white out or blacken out the names of the landowners and put in on the site for all to see (scan in), it would help us see what we might be signing.
The website for the DeSoto Parish Clerk of Court is: desotoparishclerk.org
As Mr. McConnell mentioned, it is not a "free" site. You will have to pay $50.00 as a set-up charge to begin your account, $50.00 for the first month (this is just for the basic account and you will only be able to view the indexes, not entire documents and suits) and $50.00 if you wish to be able to view everything. Basic package is $50.00 per month, deluxe package is $100.00 per month.
I am pretty sure I have it straight but you can call the Clerk at (318) 872-3110 and they can tell you if anything has changed.
The Clerks office in Sabine Parish responded to my request and gave me appropriate access to all the information I needed timely and pleasantly FREE.....
Tom
Well, it depends on what you are asking for. The original post was from someone who wanted to see "a lease", not a specific lease. So he's asking that someone look up someone's lease and provide a copy, so he can see what language is included. The clerk's offices really aren't in a position to just go and run the records like that. Now, if you have a specific document you're looking for, most of the clerks will be happy to help. It just depends. DeSoto, also, is very crowded these days, and Sabine is maybe not so busy.
To the original poster - if you mainly want to review a sample lease, there's one posted here at the City of shreveport's website:
And I don't work for DeSoto Parish, just wanted to say that a lot of what any clerk's office can do for you, especially over the phone, depends on what it is you're asking for.
That's actually a problem that clerk's offices everywhere have with all their records, now that they are moving to online access. Online access is wonderful, but a large variety of public records used to carry SSNs - deeds, leases, mortgages, etc. I think that may be one reason that the clerks are using subscriptions to limit access (apart from the time and cost involved in scanning records, maintaining the websites and databases, etc.). I've always said that people would be shocked to know what could be learned about them from public records.