Trust deed investing has been around for decades, offering private investors a myriad of opportunities to invest in real estate development and provides benefits such as diversification, capital ...

With home sales at a crawl and financial institutions cautious about lending, perhaps no one in real estate faces more significant challenges than Mortgage Brokers. The same people who've made ...

A deed of trust is used in over half of states instead of a mortgage. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us when you take certain ...

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Investing in real estate has always been an option that many people do not regard themselves as being a part of. When asked, “Do you invest in real estate?” most responses include some sort of comment ...

When closing on a home, you might sign either a mortgage or a deed of trust. Both use the home you buy as collateral for your loan, and both require a promissory note (a document in which you agree to ...

Q: Marsha, what is a Deed of Reconveyance and is it something I should be concerned about with my home? A: Oh yes, it is something you should be concerned about. When you borrowed the money secured by ...

Trust deed and REIT investments seem similar on the surface. They both utilize crowdfunding to raise capital which opens the door to commercial real estate investments at a lower buy-in than your ...

Secured loans are made every day by banks, credit unions, and other financial lenders. If the security for repayment of a loan is real estate, the security is taken in the form of a deed of trust ...

To be enforceable, a deed of trust must sufficiently describe the real property security. There are several different ways to describe real property. Commonly used methods include referring to a block ...