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A promissory note is a mortgage document promising to pay back a lender under certain terms. The note includes information such as how much you're borrowing and the mortgage interest rate. The lender ...

Cash might be considered king, but it isn’t realistic to pay cash for every purchase in your life, such as buying a home or car or paying for a large renovation project. Those are all instances when ...

When you take out a mortgage, or any other kind of loan, the law requires you to sign a document that signifies your agreement to repay the money. The promissory note represents a binding legal ...

A promissory note is a type of negotiable instrument that's similar to a common law contract. Basically, it is a promise to pay a certain amount to the holder of the note, according to certain terms, ...

A recent case may change the procedure for assigning deeds of trust in Maryland. Mortgages and deeds of trust are security instruments that provide their beneficiaries with encumbrances on real ...

States long imposed fees to record documents in land records. The Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems loan registry system, created in the mid-1990s, meant lenders no longer needed to record ...