Tract Runsheet

Need title run on just one tract?

Real estate professionals running title on a surface parcel. Oil & gas professionals running title on a mineral tract. Both use the same County.Land service, deep landman title work on a single tract, with every relevant document from every source.

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Two audiences, one service

Real estate or oil & gas, same craft.

For real estate professionals

You're closing on a tract and need a deeper title look than your title company's commitment provides. Or you're a commercial broker doing due diligence on a property with a complicated chain. Or you've got a contract that depends on a specific reservation, easement, or boundary call.

We run the full chain on the tract: every recorded instrument, every encumbrance, every cross-reference. You get a workbook and a written summary you can put in front of your buyer, your lender, or your attorney.

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For oil & gas professionals

You're a landman, a fund partner, or an operator who needs title run on a specific mineral tract, not a whole county. You need the runsheet, the chain, the abstractor's notes, the cross-references to releases and ratifications, and the lease/HBP picture.

We run the full O&G title work-up on the tract: all instruments, mineral severance trace, current ownership with interest fractions, well/permit data joined, skip-traced owners.

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What you get

Every relevant document, from every source.

A Tract Runsheet workbook is a scaled-down version of the County Foundation, same craft, narrower scope.

Tab	What's in it
Subject Tract	Parcel ID, legal description, acreage, current owner of record, CAD valuation
Runsheet	Every recorded instrument touching the tract, chronological, normalized, with Abstractor's Notes on every row
Title Chain	Full chain of title from the root forward, every grantor → grantee, every interest passed, every pivot annotated
Cross-References	Releases, ratifications, corrections, partitions, easements that touch the tract
Encumbrances	Liens, mortgages, easements, ROW agreements, restrictive covenants, current and historical
Mineral Status (O&G work-ups)	Severance trace, current mineral ownership, lease status, HBP inference, well/permit data joined
Owner Detail	Skip-traced contact info for current owners (O&G) or last-known owners on broken chains (RE)
Document Library	Every source PDF hyperlinked from every referencing row
Abstractor's Summary	Plain-English written summary from a senior Texas landman, what's clean, what's flagged, what's recommended

The deep difference

What separates landman title work from a title insurance commitment.

A title insurance commitment is a legal opinion structured to support an insurance policy. It's narrow on purpose, the underwriter cares about the policy's exposure, not your operational questions.

Landman title work is different. We aren't optimizing a policy; we're answering the questions you actually have:

What does the legal description actually convey? Old metes-and-bounds get re-platted. Boundary calls drift. We tell you exactly what's covered.
Where did the minerals go? A title commitment may exclude minerals entirely. We trace every severance, every reservation, every conveyance.
What's the practical chain health? Are there gaps that will haunt the next deal? Are there pending probates? Likely heirs not yet vested?
What's encumbered, even if it doesn't affect insurance? Old ROWs, dormant leases, restrictive covenants, recorded affidavits.
What would a senior landman actually do here? Plain-English recommendations from someone with 20+ years of Texas title experience.

When buyers use Tract Runsheet

The common cases.

Pre-acquisition diligence

You're buying a tract and your title company's commitment doesn't answer the questions your investment committee is asking.

Mineral verification

The tract has unclear mineral status. The title commitment excludes minerals; you need to know what you're actually buying.

Litigation support

A boundary dispute, an easement question, or a chain-of-title challenge. You need a written abstract from a senior landman.

Heir / probate cleanup

The tract has a broken chain, a probate that wasn't closed properly, or unvested heirs. We trace it and recommend curative action.

Lease take-down (O&G)

You're targeting a single tract for leasing and need the full ownership + HBP picture before sending offer letters.

Curative work

You know there's a problem in the chain and need it identified, documented, and a curative path recommended.

Tract Runsheet vs County Foundation

When each is the right fit.

	Tract Runsheet	County Foundation
Scope	One tract (or a handful)	The whole county
Buyer	Closing a deal, doing diligence, solving a problem	Entering a basin, planning a campaign, building a position
Typical use case	Per-transaction	Strategic / portfolio
Turnaround	2–5 business days	~5 weeks
Output	Workbook + written abstractor's summary	nine-sheet linked workbook + Atlas + Methodology
Title insurance	No, research and abstract only	No, research and abstract only