The questions below cover the operational decisions a new seller-carry holder makes in the first 60 days after closing. The answers point to the records and disciplines a note buyer or state examiner reviews at month six and beyond.Recording and document custodyQuestion one — [...]
The three case studies below describe seller-carry holders who skipped early-stage disciplines and absorbed the consequences. Identifying details have been changed; the operational patterns recur across the file types brought to a licensed servicer for cleanup.Case one — the unrecorded deed of trustA seller [...]
The first 60 days after a seller-carry closing decide whether the note becomes a clean, sellable asset or a file that discounts hard on resale. The seven mistakes below recur in seller-carry files brought to a licensed servicer for cleanup at month three, month [...]
A seller-carried note begins on the day the deed records, and the operational disciplines built in the first 60 days after that date set the note up for either a clean payment history and a resellable asset, or a tangled file that discounts hard [...]
A seller-carry holder choosing between a personal checking account and a dedicated trust account is choosing between two structures that look similar on a balance screen and that diverge on every other dimension. The comparison below walks the four dimensions where the two structures [...]
The three patterns below recur in seller-carry trust account files brought for cleanup. Each one started with a small operational shortcut and ended with a regulatory finding, a litigation exposure, or a resale discount the holder did not anticipate.Pattern one — the commingled account [...]
The ten questions below recur in conversations with seller-carry holders during a trust account intake. Each has a clean technical answer when the records are in order and a complicated answer when the records are gaps. A holder who can answer the ten questions [...]
A seller carrying a single note opens and operates a compliant trust account in a workflow that takes one afternoon to set up and twenty minutes a month to maintain. The guide below walks the ten steps from account opening through the year-end close, [...]
A single-note seller-carry holder operates the same trust account discipline a hundred-loan servicer operates, on smaller volume. The eight mistakes below recur in single-note files brought to a licensed servicer for cleanup before resale or before a state inquiry.Mistake one — depositing borrower funds [...]
A seller who carried back a note at closing is collecting borrower funds the moment the first monthly payment arrives. A portion of that payment is principal and interest owed to the seller; another portion is escrow for property taxes and insurance owed to [...]
