The 119 days spent overseas have cost taxpayers millions of dollars. At the same point in their respective presidencies, George W. Bush had spent 116 days on 28 trips, Bill Clinton had spent 113 days on 27 trips and Ronald Reagan had spent 73 days on just 14 trips.
The methods for recording vary, but book and page systems or document numbering systems are common. Specific real estate documents, such as deeds, mortgages, deeds of trust and liens, are considered recordable. The clerks charge a small fee to record documents, and that fee usually is based on the number of pages. After a real estate deed is filed or recorded, the original is returned to the grantee.
As a legacy of business practices gone by, most companies still keep paper records of everything. Sometimes the original paper-copy document has unique legal force, such as an executed lease agreement. In any case, while striving to avoid unnecessary paperwork, you do need to establish a good recordkeeping system for your hard files. Invest in a series of file cabinets and arrange them according to the types of records they hold, keeping basic record types together and using folders and partitions to separate individual files.