Two address columns, two dates, one page

Today's rep runs a short, fixed motion on a one-page county list: the Richland County, Ohio Clerk of Courts foreclosure excess-funds list (fetched live for this rep; the file's last-modified stamp is August 4, 2026).

Source: the Richland County, OH Clerk of Courts excess-funds PDF at richlandcourtsoh.us (one page, last modified August 4, 2026).

The page: a single PDF, seven columns — case number, parties name, last known address, property address, date of sale, date paid in, unclaimed amount.

What the rep logs, in order:

**1. The two dates.** This office pairs a sale date with a "date paid in" — the sale and the money arriving are different events, and this list prints both. Read them row by row: one row on this page prints a paid-in date EARLIER than its sale date. Whatever the explanation is, the record as printed disagrees with itself. The rep: copy both dates exactly as printed and flag the contradiction in your log. Never silently fix a source — a corrected number you can't defend is worse than a flagged one you can.

**2. The row count.** Nineteen case rows, nineteen amount cells — every row carries a figure, so no zero-blanks to trip over here. But the page also carries five "Claimed" notes, each hand-dated by the office, and the page's own line reads "ENTRIES IN BOLD ARE NO LONGER ELIGIBLE TO BE CLAIMED." The county is telling you disposition is part of the data. Log each note verbatim and treat the eligibility line as the county's own instruction — do not assume which rows it applies to, because the formatting it refers to is not something you can confirm from a text copy.

**3. The two address columns.** This is the part worth the most attention. The page gives you a "last known address" AND a "property address" — and on multiple rows the two strings are different. One party's last known address is out of state entirely. The county hands you where the person WAS and where the property IS. That gap between the two columns is the whole research problem, printed on the page.

**4. The decision line.** One line per row, two questions: is a disposition note printed on this row — yes or no. And is there a contact path from what's printed — yes or no. Nineteen rows, two answers each, written down. A rep without a written decision is just reading.

One page, nineteen rows logged. That's a rep. Run it on your county's list — and if your county publishes no equivalent list, post that too; that finding changes your plan, not your goal.

This is education, not legal advice. We are not a law firm and can't provide legal advice; claims are prepared and filed by independent licensed attorneys.

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Two address columns, two dates, one page