This document spells out who holds the legal title to a home Written By Written by Contributor, Buy Side Kim Porter is contributor to Buy Side from WSK and expert on mortgages, student loans and debt ...

When a piece of property is held in a land trust, it’s very hard to trace the ownership of the property back to a private individual. Unlike an LLC, a land trust is not recorded anywhere. Land trusts ...

In some states, after you pay off a home loan, your lender issues you a document known as a deed of reconveyance. This means that the title to your home is no longer being held as collateral. Here’s ...

Question: My mother is the trustee of her revocable living trust, with me as the sole beneficiary. The only asset in the trust is my mother’s house. My mother wants to simplify things and record a ...