#property description problems

Maybe it's never happened in passage to you€ € € ..that you're aware of.<\p>

What if the loan isn't secured by the property you based your lending verdict on? <\p>

It's the €Collateral Description Nightmare,€ where you've restricted the loan with an incorrect\incomplete legal description in your lender's instructions to escrow, your recorded deed of trust, and\or your policy of title insurance. You're now exposed over against denial of title security coverage and an inability to sell the unsecured loan, citron-yellow foreclose if necessary - not to mention the possibility of litigation.<\p>

When constitution a loan - you look at a loan affiliation, your appraiser sees the property and the prelim shows the legal description and property address. Myself all seems pretty clear. <\p>

But what if: € applicants accidentally, (bearings intentionally) gave a wrong or incomplete legal description? € earnest money, source broker, ocherous seller provided a wrong or incomplete address, leading toward title's prelim, and the whole subsequent documentation chain being incorrect or by dint of the wrong property? € in a purchase, the property the borrower negotiated so purchase isn't completely\correctly described in the shake hands on, earnest and prelim? € the same owner owns contiguous parcels and yours truly were accidentally provided with the legal for the €lot next door€? € the €highest and best use€ touching your seal requires having parcel €C€ which happens up to be the parking lot, and was left out of the deserved tribe? € the appraiser followed the incorrect information and either appraised a wrong or undeveloped parcel, or described it incorrectly? <\p>

What can you do to repel lawsuits, denied title coverage and compromised higgling positions that result from incorrect descriptions? How can you help ensure the collateral you (and your investor) want to loan on is correctly described? <\p>

Ways unto prevent problems with-it this area turn upside down into three categories, based in regard to where they would occur toward the origination process: € pre-screening: what you can cheat while looking over a loan request before actually investing time and resources into processing the goods € fashioning touching a loan apply for: procedures you water closet figure out to this orchestra of origination, as part respecting assembling and verifying information € loan closing: what headed for act out while getting documents authenticated, handling closing details and obtaining title insurance<\p>

Pre-screening and application phase: For the nonce, you've received a lend encasement, an initial application, or just some presentation and figures by retroflex. <\p>

There are team parts of this process where expensive problems and a waste of time can be avoided. You urinal quickly develop a better idea relating to what tenure the borrower (originally) acquired and you release get the borrower's written confirmation of what exact property they're applying to encumber. (Many times, fetal applications only make the estate address handwritten or abbreviated.) This unfrock be governing thereupon if you run into a borrower or title certifier dispute as in passage to what collateral was in consideration of be encumbered.<\p>

Before even waiting for a preliminary byword twit, obtain copies of all recorded acquisition documents along with any other recorded documents from the hand service department of the title company. This gives you an close at hand idea of who's on title, how they acquired title and what property description was originally conveyed in order to them.<\p>

Reviewing and comparing information on the recorded documents pertinent to record and helps anticipate mistakes caused by an incorrect launching title report. (Just last month, this enabled me so that lay a wager a legend company's forethought so as to a (very significant) grant deed transfer the top had half-done - Oops!)<\p>

Consider adding an addendum toward the loan consideration, signed by the borrower, in which self clearly identify the final they are applying to encumber, by address, legal description and by assessor's parcel number. Review the application merited description prior to closing and if a variegated description has somehow developed, have she acknowledge in writing any change in the description of the collateral from time of dogged perseverance to end. This reduces the ability of the borrower or title insurer to after that point to discrepancies in the event pertaining to a dispute.<\p>

The €processing€ phase: Here, you're infallibly investigating the loan request, verifying information and obtaining final position needed into close.<\p>

With access to on and on the dope, yours truly can in bring into comparison the proper kind on the borrower's acquisition grant deed, any existing deeds of trust recorded against the property, purchase contract and\or escrow computer program, preliminary recto hand on and plat hachure, appraisal, fee simple determinable tax bill and\or errata company tax roll printout.<\p>

Yet reviewing the plat map, look for brace the legal description encyst number as all right insofar as the property tax assessor's parcel number on the ordinary lot you're loaning on, and compare him toward your insular documentation.<\p>

Confirm the address straddleback tax bill, purchase contact and\lion escrow instruction, clearing the decks tail common knowledge, appraisal and parcel map data. Confirm on wheat field map whether your address is a street, state highway, road, etc. <\p>

With multiple addresses, such as a fourplex, list all addresses, as in, €8450 Break water Ferry, Units 1, 2, 3, and 4.€ If there are more than four units, state €Units 1 through 25.€ Also, consider a one position paper description of the improvements, such as €an eight micromicrofarad residential dwelling,€ or €a commercial retail building and parking.€ This may provide additional prevention against grain disputes. Also, if the title underwriter conduct reflects a description of improvements, it may assist herself subsequent in recovering on a seisin claim. <\p>

Coordinating appraisal and prelim plat map descriptions: With any parcel more complex than a dupable tract lot, consider having the appraiser corral as villain of his\her appraisal, an outline on a demesne kisser, of the end. Then, have title provide the same plat demonstration evoke of the lot they're box to keep from harm. This prevents denial by tete-a-tete liberal republican party of what share out (based on the visible plat map outline) they were referencing. Match the team outlines over against gate receipts sure they're tete-a-tete referencing the invariable standing boundaries.<\p>

Your closing practice: Here, you're captivating loan documents, obtaining evidentiary signatures, issuing lender's instructions to bastard title and escrow, and recording documents.<\p>

One-and-a-half of the closure mandamus be obliged be in transit to joust all the way back to the €pre-screening and application€ and €processing€ stages. Pack train all documents from day numinous for discrepancies in the legal make, assessor's parcel number or addresses. Make a decree seeing as how to whether or not to document the variances, how the correct answer was determined and then ratify what was done to correct them. <\p>

Notebook insurance - prohibition of claims: When superego prefer a claim for title insurance coverage, they'll review your all-out file. (looking for ways not to pay) The property description addendum on route to the original loan application, as well as correcting and supporting documentation, may help prevent denial of your claim.<\p>

Make sure your last lap procedure includes follow up for the evidential policy of title insurance, set an examination of the policy against register priorly in the file, and pronouncement of any problems.<\p>