A contract for deed agreement is nothing new. These agreements are between a current owner of the property (the 鈥渓egal titleholder鈥) and a person who is interested in purchasing the property from the owner (the 鈥渆quitable interest holder鈥) but may not be eligible for traditional financing (or for other reasons), and the owner agrees to finance the transaction. The equitable …
A Claims Tale: All Mortgages Are Not Created Equal 鈥 HELOC Mortgage Payoff
Dealing with mortgages and deeds of trusts in a transaction seems fairly easy to address at a closing, you would think. On occasion, we see a security instrument known as the Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) Mortgage or Deed of Trust 鈥 a revolving credit line secured by the home鈥檚 equity 鈥 that is not treated the same way …