Minnesota · DeedsMinnesota deed recording: acknowledgment, the drafter statement, page standards and the $46 fee

To be recorded in Minnesota, a conveyance or other instrument affecting real estate must be legible and archivable, executed and acknowledged by the parties with the acknowledgment certified, and must carry the original signatures of the parties and of the notary or other officer; an instrument executed out of state is also recordable if it meets the law of the place of execution (Minn. Stat. §507.24). The county recorder won't record a deed or other instrument conveying, creating, encumbering or assigning an interest in real estate until the name and address of the person or company that drafted it appear on it – for example "This instrument was drafted by (name) (address)" – though a recorded instrument missing the statement isn't impaired (§507.091). Paper documents must be sheets no larger than 8½ by 14 inches, in black ink and type no smaller than 8 points, on white paper of at least 20-pound weight, with a blank three-inch space at the top of page one – the right half for recording information and the left half for tax certification – and half-inch borders elsewhere; an administrative page may be attached in front to meet the standard (§507.093). The county recorder's fee for indexing and recording a deed or other instrument is $46 (§357.18, subd. 1); the deed tax is separate.