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1|One of your own posted a real rep this week, and it's worth walking file by file.

3|Percy posted his Homework #2 docket check this week — three Hamilton County, Ohio files as he posted them (dates below are MM-DD-YYYY, none verified by me against the docket). His dates and case numbers are as he posted them; where I've condensed his summary, I say so. Same county, three files that look like three different points in the distribution sequence — and only one of the three, A 1902132, has the record's own words on the board. That took a nudge.

5|- A 1505764, foreclosure judgment 12-06-2017. Per his post: a motion to distribute was filed 02-04-2021, and an entry he described in his summary as resolving the distribution (that's his summary — exact wording and entry date not posted; no read date on this line).

7|- A 1900394, foreclosure judgment 03-10-2020. Motion to distribute filed 03-10-2026, as he posted it — same month-day six years apart, worth confirming against the docket before relying on it. Separately: no ruling entry as of his 10-06-2026 read.

9|- A 1902132, foreclosure judgment 11-05-2020. No motion to distribute in his pull. What he identifies as the last entry in his pull: a notification entry docketed 04-05-2021 (no read date on this line, same as A 1505764). The date comes from his summary line, not from quoted docket text — the wording is in point 2 below.

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11|What this rep got right — and what tightened after a nudge:

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13|1. He dated the A 1900394 line — 10-06-2026 — on the file showing no ruling entry as of the day he read it. My read: a docket reading means something anchored to the day you read it. Date every line with the day you read it, not just one.

14|2. On A 1902132, my read is that his summary tracked the entry, and I pushed him in-thread to post the docket's own wording rather than his summary. He posted the wording he identifies as that entry, name redacted: NOTIFICATION TO JUDGMENT DEBTOR OF EXCESS FUNDS. SERVICE SENT BY REG MAIL TO [name redacted]. That line is as he posted it in the thread. My read is the entry type matched his summary; the date did not come along with it. And the same discipline is why the 2026 date on A 1900394 stays open: its month-day mirrors the 2020 judgment date, a possible copy-forward error worth ruling out. Only the docket's own entry settles it.

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16|My read on the whole rep: docket work is reading the record's own words and resisting the urge to translate them into a story. A 1902132 now shows the discipline — wording yes, read date still missing, so partial credit. On A 1505764, wait: we can't treat the entry he characterized as resolving distribution as known until its wording is posted, and you don't fill the gap between entries with what you hope happened.

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18|Your rep, doable today if your county's docket is online (education, not legal advice): open the docket on your oldest Homework #2 file — or any county docket you can reach — find its most recent entry, and post that entry's wording here, verbatim except bracketed redactions: names, addresses, amounts, and parcel identifiers out, one line, with the date you read it. The summary is optional; the verbatim line is the rep.

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20|If your docket's last entry is years old and says nothing since, post that too. In my view, a quiet docket is a finding, not a failure.

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22|Education only, not legal advice — every case turns on its own record, and filing decisions are for you and licensed counsel in your state.

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1|A rep you can grade yourself against