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Latest video published 9/3/2019
- Installment Notes: Interest-Included and Interest-Extra
Use of interest-included and interest-extra installment notes to set the repayment schedule of debt.
- Word-of-the-Week: Appraisal
An appraisal is an individual's opinion or estimate of a property's value on a specific date, reduced to writing in an appraisal report.
- Introduction to Promissory Notes
Types of promissory notes and the function of usury law to prevent exorbitant interest rates and bad lender behavior.
- Word-of-the-Week: Force Majeure
Force majeure is an unanticipated event which renders a transaction participant unable to fill their contractual obligations.
- Evidence of the Debt
Use of a promissory note to evidence the borrower’s promise to pay
- Word-of-the-Week: Blockbusting
Blockbusting is the prohibited practice of inducing a property owner to list their property for sale in response to a change taking place in the neighborhood demographics.
- Title by Claims of Adverse Possession
Five critical elements to establish title by adverse possession based on a claim of right or color of title.
- Word-of-the-Week: The Quick Tell-All about Easements
An easement is a right held by one property owner to use the land of another for a specific purpose.
- Describing the Property Conveyed
Use of a common address or legal description to sufficiently describe the property being conveyed.
- Words of Conveyance for a Fee or Less
Use of a quitclaim deed to convey whatever interest, if any, the grantor may hold in the real estate.