OSCEOLA COUNTY, FLORIDA
OFFICIAL RECORDS ONLINE SEARCH

These instructions describe how to search, free of charge, the Osceola County Public Records database for final judgements, land records, court records, and other public documents recorded since January 1, 1957. The search will return a list of Grantors/Grantees or Parties, the date of the document, the book and page number of the document, and other linked related instruments. This method can be used on all devices with Internet access and all web browser software.

This application uses a tab structure to switch between views. The top three tabs are used to switch between the Search options (making the four lower tabs visible), the list of the Results for the most recent search, and the Document currently selected for viewing (if any). Use these tabs, not your browser's Back button, to return to the Search or Results tab.

Search Criteria

Click on the Search tab to show the Party, Document Type, File Number and Book/Page tabs. Click the Search button after entering all required and optional criteria on the selected tab. Click Clear to clear the existing criteria.

• Party Search Tab:  Enter one party name as specified. You can enter a partial company or last name to find all parties starting with the characters entered. For example, enter BANK to find bank names starting with BANK as well as persons with names such as BANKS or BANKHEAD. You can optionally select one or more county document types to search for the given party as described in Selecting Document Types below. A Date Range is also optional for a Party Name search.
• Document Type Search Tab:  One or more county document types can be selected using the instructions below. A Consideration Amount and a Date Range are optional for a Document Type search.
• Selecting Document Types:  When using the Party tab and the Document Type tab, if you know the document type codes, key them separated by commas in the Document Type (Optional) box. Another way is to use the Select Document Types list and check the document types to be searched. You can narrow the selection list by typing some text included in document types or descriptions in the Search Document Types box, for example MORT to list mortgage related document types.
• File Number Search Tab:  Enter a specific county file (instrument) number to be found. The county format is a four digit year and a six digit sequence number.
• Book/Page Search Tab:  Select a Book Type in the selection list and enter the Book Number and Page Number for the document to be found.
• Search Options:  For a Party and Document Type search, provide an optional Date Range by typing From and To dates (omitting leading zeros for month and day), or click the calendar icons to select the dates from a calendar, or click 7 Days, 30 Days or 90 Days (including the current day) as the range to use. If desired, select a multiple of 100 rows in the Limit search to maximum records option or a multiple of 25 rows in the Display records per page option (this option will cause a list of clickable page numbers to be shown below the search results hit list).

Returned Search Results

The resulting hit list will be presented on the Results tab, showing documents matching the criteria entered. The county will limit the number of records that can be retrieved in one search. Here are the ways to use the hit list:

• View Details:  Click View to show the document details and image on the Document tab.
• Sorting:  Click on the words in a column heading to sort the list on the contents, alternating between ascending and descending sequence on the column and the default sequence on the first column displayed in the list.
• Filtering:  Move the mouse to the right side of a heading and click on the icon with three lines for a selection box to filter the hit list. Type some characters to limit the selection list to values containing those characters.

Document Details

When View is clicked in the hit list, details and the document image are shown on the Document tab. Use the plus and minus buttons or your mouse scroll wheel to enlarge or reduce the document in the window. Use the buttons above the image to go to the previous or next page or a specific page number, to Rotate the view by 90 degrees left or right, or to Reset the view to normal.

Click Print Page to print the page being viewed only, or PDF All Pages to create a PDF (Portable Document Format) file for the entire document. For documents of more than xxx pages, two PDF files will be created. For the Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge web browsers, a View link will shortly appear at the right of the buttons to open the PDF and print or download it with the web browser's built in interface for PDF documents. For Internet Explorer, you may see a prompt to Open or Save the file. Select Open to view the file in Abobe Acrobat Reader or another PDF viewer application. You can then Print or Save the document in that application.