I found this Grant deed in my parents papers. Is it better to leave the stamps on the document and does the fact that the escrow company or other entity drew a line through all the stamps affect any value they might have?
Yes, leave them on. No problems about the line - something like that is very common with revenue stamps, which were often cancelled by lines or signatures.
These are documentary stamp taxes ("DST"). Drawing a line over it is a common way of cancelling it so it cannot be reused. This is acceptable for DSTs unlike the marker monkeys that we currently have
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Posted 12/16/2010 4:21 pm
