New Blog 1: Reconvey Deed Of Trust

Monday 17 December 2012

Reconvey Deed Of Trust

A deed of trust is a legal document that gives your mortgage lender a lien on your home. The lien attaches to your property for as long as you still owe money under the mortgage loan. California state law requires a mortgage lender to remove the deed of trust within 21 days after you fully pay off the mortgage loan. Technically, the lender does not actually remove the deed of trust but instead provides a deed of reconveyance that in effect cancels the deed of trust. Reconveyance in those states which use deeds of trust as a mortgage on real property to secure payment of a loan or other debt, the transfer of title by the trustee (which has been holding title to the real property) back to the borrower (on the written request of the borrower) when the secured debt is fully paid. Under the deed of trust the borrower transfers title in the real property to the trustee (often a title or escrow company) which holds it for the benefit of the lender (called "beneficiary"). The lender must surrender the promissory note to the trustee who cancels it and then reconveys title and records the reconveyance.