Register of Deeds
803.642.2072
Mission Statement
The mission of the Aiken County Register of Deeds (ROD) Office is to provide for the recordation, maintenance and availability of county records dealing with real and personal property.
Recording Fees
This Office Does:
- File, index, and record deeds, mortgages, and other property related records
- Record and index financing statements and state and federal tax liens*
- Collect state mandated recording fees for all documents recorded
- Assist the public in obtaining copies of deeds and other recorded documents
The Register of Deeds records the following types of documents in Aiken County:
- Deeds
- Mortgages
- Plats of Property
- Easements and Rights of Way
- Powers of Attorney
- Federal Tax Liens & Federal Judgements
- Homeowners Associate Liens
- Mechanics Liens
- Restrictive Covenants & By-Laws
- UCC Finance Statements
This Office DOES NOT:
- Perform title searches or searches for other information
- Advise or make legal recommendations (Please refer to the SC Bar.)
- Prepare or provide forms
Recording Alert System
A home is one of our most valuable tangible possessions. Much is being said currently about title fraud and about the act of stealing properties or borrowing monies against your property. It is not nearly as easy as the commercial ads want you to believe. If a property is to be conveyed by a supposed owner to another individual, the owner’s signature must be forged, which is a crime. To be placed on public record, a document must have requirements per SC law and must be signed in the presence of two witnesses and be properly acknowledged before a notary public. No lender is going to loan monies without a proper title search making certain that there is sufficient legal collateral. There is no guarantee that fraud will never be perpetrated, but no company can be employed to “prevent” fraud from happening. Public land record monitoring can only notify you after a document has been recorded. “Free” monitoring of property records is available through our record’s webpage. To sign up for the monitoring, go to fraudalert.bislandrecords.com. Follow the prompts to accept disclaimers, and to include the names to be monitored as well as an email address at which you will be notified if any document is recorded including the name you entered. It is our responsibility to record a document if it appears to be legitimate by meeting all the prerequisites per SC law, so please understand that the recording alert does not preclude a recording. It will simply notify you after the recording and allow you to begin a process of addressing the situation more quickly.
***Recording Alert System***
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Information
The Registrar in Aiken County is an elected position and is held by Julie Stutts.
Documents recorded after June 12, 2005, are electronically imaged and are available for viewing using computers in the ROD office; documents recorded before that date are in book form in the ROD Office.
Records in the Aiken County ROD Office date back to 1872 and are public information.
Beginning November 1, 2019, the SCDOR maintains all state tax liens (new and previously filed) in the online State Tax Lien Registry, http://dor.sc.gov/LienRegistry. The SCDOR will no longer update existing liens or file new liens in county offices. This change is due to the amendment to South Carolina Code Section 12-54-122(G) that passed in March 2019.
