Yes, you can sell a home with a Deed of Trust. However, just like a mortgage, if you're selling the home for less than you owe on it, you'll need approval from the lender.
In real estate law, "assignment" is simply the transfer of a deed of trust from one party to another.
Amending a trust deed is process that should be treated as requiring careful planning, consideration and intentionality. Indeed, unintended (and undesirable) consequences can flow from a purported trust amendment that has been undertaken with such consideration, such as a resettlement of the trust.
And if someone wants to put you on their deed, they must tell you — not surprise you. Otherwise, you could lose the property over a court challenge that you never acknowledged receipt of the deed during the transferor's life.
When the trust owner dies, the trustee can transfer property out of the trust by using a quitclaim or grant deed transferring ownership of the property to the beneficiary. Here are details on the process and what to do with the inherited property if you're the beneficiary. Estate planning is a complex process.
Under the Marketable Title Act, “the duration of a debt secured by a deed of trust is limited to 10 years after the final maturity date of the debt, if that date can be ascertained from the recorded evidence of indebtedness (i.e., the mortgage or deed of trust), or, if no maturity date is evident, to 60 years after the ...