title company joe shows up in front of a recorder with todays docs from all closings, filings. How many docs? 30 docs for 200 closings sound fair? total 6k
recorder has to examine each one for compliance. How much time does that take? after compliance he must book and page each one with a stamp. Times 8 or 10 title companies per day plus the odd walk in that needs shit explained. Now we have approximately50k pieces of paper that need to be indexed then scanned. How do you index? It requires data entry, that takes time. with the foreclosures hitting triple the paperwork. I used to live in west palm so I know the dedication and skill set of the local government workers. They are lucky to have a running system at all, much less an efficient one.
The true libertarian answer would be to close all courthouse recording systems and let the title companies compete for most accurate systems, I can picture that :-)