[no-to-illegals]

Thirty years is normally enough, in most cases

[Sacajaweau]

Title search is just that....done by a title company...since a title company will normally insure a mortgage.

But a property search can go back much further.

IIRC, the deeds for Fairfax County have the building that GW used for his Survey Office as its cover page. I lived in Williamsburg for a year.