Quitclaim Deed
Categories: Real Estate
A deed does for real estate what a car title does for vehicles: it provides proof of ownership for a piece of property. Going up to the Yukon to pan for gold? Better have a deed to your gold claim.
Most deeds fall under the category of "warranty real estate deed." Transferring a deed moves ownership from one party to another. It also comes with a lot of stipulations. It affirms that the person transferring the property actually owns it and has the right to sell. Basically, the person (or company) receiving the property gets a series of protections and guarantees.
A quitclaim deed is like the watered-down version. Or...think of it like the Wild West version, a short step above transferring property by spitting into your palm and shaking hands. (Perfect for a Yukon gold claim).
The quitclaim deed is a written document (no need for spit-splattered palm-pressing), but it leaves out many of the long list of protections included in the warranty version of the deed transfer. It makes it faster and easier to conduct a real estate transfer, but creates some risks for the buyer. There are no guarantees about the seller's title, and it only transfers their share of the property. If there are other owners of the real estate, they might still have a claim.
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obligations of the bank underwriting the purchase of whatever inventory
is involved here In this trust deed it lays out
the rights of the people transacting and it spells out
who gets called defend or when there is a conflict
And this is particularly useful in a world where there
is indeed not a lot of trust Essentially a business
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deed owns that merchandise until the business owner essentially buys
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the legal documentation that outlines the various obligations of both
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would you want one of these arrangements If you're a
business owner Like why bother with all this trust deed
stuff and inventory and banks Well if you didn't have
tohave one well you wouldn't But if you're a fledgling
company hoping to make it big in the big city
and you need lots of inventory to make lots of
genes or nobody takes you seriously well then you do
what you have to dio and you can imagine that
banks charge very high interest for setting up the's trust
deeds because the credit risk they take here is usually
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companies Entrepreneurial activities Well another reason banks charge high interest
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get their money back by selling that eighteen miles of
denim on ebay So as a result not only do
trusted borrowers pay high interest but they also have to
carry relatively expensive insurance on that inventory So that at
the end of the day the on the bank isn't
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