Sacramento County
Deed Transfer

A deed transferring Sacramento County property is prepared, signed before a notary, and submitted to the Sacramento County Clerk-Recorder with a completed Preliminary Change of Ownership Report. TruPoint Legal handles all of it: we prepare it to the recorder’s format, arrange notarization, and e-record it for you the same business day when it is in hand before the county cutoff.

Yes. The Sacramento County Clerk-Recorder accepts electronic recording, and a document received before the county’s afternoon cutoff records the same business day. TruPoint Legal is set up to submit your prepared document electronically, so there is no drive to the American River Drive office and no waiting on mail — the stamped copy returns to your inbox.

TruPoint Legal prepares a Sacramento County deed for $325, or $400 for an entity (LLC or corporation) transfer. County recording fees and optional add-ons are separate and itemized before you commit. California attorneys typically charge $1,000–$2,000 for the same deed, with consultation billed separately.

The Sacramento County Clerk-Recorder’s main office is at 3636 American River Drive, Suite 110, Sacramento, CA 95864, reachable at (916) 874-6334, open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. With TruPoint Legal preparing and e-recording your deed, you do not need to visit in person — we submit it electronically on your behalf.

Yes. TruPoint Legal serves all 58 California counties, Sacramento included. The intake, document preparation, and e-recording are all handled remotely, and notarization can be arranged in-office or by a mobile notary near you. You never have to travel to San Jose or to the Sacramento recorder.

It can, if the right exclusion is not claimed. Transfers between spouses, into a living trust, or qualifying parent-child transfers can avoid reassessment — but only when the exclusion language and the Preliminary Change of Ownership Report are completed correctly. A missed exclusion can mean a permanent reassessment worth thousands of dollars a year. We prepare the matching exclusion with your deed.

They serve different purposes. A grant deed carries two implied warranties and is standard for a sale; a quitclaim deed makes no warranty and fits trusted family transfers. You identify which one your situation calls for through our intake, and we prepare it — both are the same $325.

Yes. A California Registered Legal Document Assistant can prepare and e-record a deed at your direction, and the Sacramento County Clerk-Recorder formally registers LDAs. TruPoint Legal is LDA #268, Santa Clara County, registered and bonded, and records deeds in Sacramento and every other California county.

Yes, and it is a common reason people call. Rejections come from a short list: the legal description was copied from the tax bill instead of the recorded deed, the notary acknowledgment was incomplete or on the wrong form, the documentary transfer tax declaration or exemption statement was missing, the Preliminary Change of Ownership Report was not attached, or the margins failed the recorder’s format rules.

You can, and for a simple transfer it sometimes works. The failures we get called about are consistent: the template was written for another state, the exemption recital was left blank or worded generically, the legal description was copied off the tax bill, or the vesting did not match what the family intended. A rejected deed costs you a week. A deed that records with a failed exemption is worse, because the reassessment notice arrives months later and by then the deed is already on the public record.

Under Proposition 19 the parent-child exclusion applies only to a family home the child makes their own principal residence, the child must file the claim with the County Assessor within the statutory window, and there is a value cap above which part of the assessment is added back. Rentals, second homes, and property the child will not live in are reassessed at current market value. We are not tax advisors, so confirm with the Assessor or a CPA before you sign. We prepare the deed, the Preliminary Change of Ownership Report, and the exclusion claim form together. See how Proposition 19 works.

It depends on how title was held, which is written on the last recorded deed. Joint tenants means an affidavit of death of joint tenant. Community property with right of survivorship means an affidavit of death of surviving spouse. Property held in a trust means an affidavit of death of trustee. If the deceased owned in their name alone, nothing passes automatically and a probate procedure applies instead. Once you select the document you want prepared, we confirm the fee before any work begins.

It is the state form filed with the deed whenever ownership changes, telling the Sacramento County Assessor what kind of transfer took place — spousal, parent-child, trust, entity, or sale. Filing it does not by itself grant any exclusion: if your transfer qualifies for one, the matching claim form still has to be filed with the Assessor separately. If the report is missing, the recorder charges an additional fee and the Assessor may issue a Change of Ownership Statement afterwards, which carries its own deadline. We prepare the report with every deed we record.

Yes, at the same fee no matter where you are. We prepare the deed and email it with signing instructions. From another state you sign before any notary public licensed where you live, and wee-record it with Sacramento County. From outside the country the acknowledgment is normally taken at a U.S. embassy or consulate, and California also accepts a notary of that country, though some counties want the signature authenticated first. You never travel to California.

The current recorded deed, or the property address and APN so we can pull it; the exact legal names of everyone giving and receiving the property; how the new owners want to hold title; and whether the transfer is a gift, a sale, a divorce transfer, or a move into a trust or entity, because that determines the exemption you direct us to claim. Intake takes about ten minutes online and nothing is charged until we confirm the fee.

Yes, and it is usually cleaner to do them together. Each property needs its own deed and its own recording, because each has its own legal description and its own county, but the intake happens once and we prepare them as a set. We e-record in all 58 California counties, so a Sacramento rental and a Bay Area home stay with one contact rather than two offices. Tell us how many properties and which counties and we will quote the package before you commit.