Patent ID: 8442921

Claim:
A system for maintaining property information, the system comprising: a. one or more databases configured to receive and store property information of a plurality of users, the property information comprising property history information for a first property owned by a current record owner, the property history information pertaining to one or more projects performed on the first property; b. a server operatively connected to said one or more databases for receiving data to be written to the one or more databases and for delivering to a user data from said one or more databases; c. a communication system operatively connecting one or more remote users to said server for writing to and/or reading from the one or more databases; d. a property ownership locking mechanism limiting control of the property history information for the first property to the current record owner of said first property, the property ownership locking mechanism being configured to allow the current record owner to designate a portion of the property history information for the first property as private; and e. a property ownership transfer mechanism operable to change the current record owner of the first property from a first user to a second user, the property ownership transfer mechanism being further configured to, upon the change of current record owner of the first property from the first user to the second user, transfer control of a non-private portion of the property history information for the first property to the second user, and retain under control of the first user the portion of the property history information for the first property designated as private.