All Forum Posts by: Skip Rivera

I tried email and have bo time to sit on hold but thank you

I have a friend whose property sold at the April 27th tax sale in Riverside County and he is wanting to know what M06 commercial zoning was. Doez anyone know?

This ratty bare 5acres sold for 141k and I think it has something to do with the zoning. 

Wow Leonard thanks for the input. The re-insurance detail is so new to me. I was actually going to call mu old attorneys nect week and ask how I might go about using  TTS to clear title on my property in Palm Springs. Now that you've explained, I believe we went through the flaming re-insurance hoops at one time and we got burnt. I'm basically stuck with a pair of commercial units where anyone who could object to my possession is dead, and it's the lack of heirs that secures my position. Crazy that one of my tenants is a new car dealership but they likely have zero idea that I can never sell, let alone get a mortgage on their space. Makes me wonder how many other commercial complexes have the same problem. There's that guy in Palm Desert who spent 10 years in court over a Holiday Inn (i think) where the place went to tax auction but where the prior owner filed bk under some sort of exotic foreign trust. Does anyone remember Alohr's trust from the 90s? Another bk foreign trust guru.

Anyway thanks for the input.  My attorneys repeatedly push the adverse possession route but I have a pair of tenants paying a collective "under $50k" monthly. Why do something that could make them nervous? 

Leanord offered some good advice. Thanks for that. There's also a company called Tax Title Services https://www.taxtitleservices.com/ that appears to be able to clear title for a bidder who holds a tax deed. Their site mentions no quiet title action needed  and no 6-month waiting period...though it looks like they meant that to go along with the former. It'd be truly InterestIng to see them at work. I know that the property across the street from apn 342110002 is also on the auction block. It actually belonged tobthe same seller as the 002 parcel, Mary Pultz. My friend who had 002 since 02 bought 11 properties from Pultz  (all inherited) and these two are the only ones that had a problem.

According to him, he'd once mer with a probate attorney whose name was on an estate settlement in 1996, and he claimed the title issue was a document recording error. This because the husband of the deceased walked a pair of deeds into the recorders office in 1981 (both deeds were dated 1971), and proceeded to  record them. The story is that they got switched and tbe escrow instructions from 2005 seem to suggest that may be true...but a profile on the other parcel doesn't show it. Pretty  crazy stuff. 

I'm willing to place a friendly wager. Only because I own a tilt-up in Palm Springs that has such severe title cloud that its been placed in a life estate for my children because a $1200-hr law firm (not lawyer) threw their collective hands up over the matter. 

As to Louise st, I'm in the teaching mood. Pass along your email address and I'll forward email transcripts from Riverside County.  In them I am crystal-clear in explaining the title problem. They are crystal clear in telling me "Riverside County does not take possession of properties and therefore is not in the legal position of guaranteeing marketable title.  If the title was clouded by  pre sale "chain of title" issues, they will remain on title when [the] tax deed is delivered". 

Anyway happy bidding. 

Riverside guarantees no liens or encumbrances will be on the property but do not guarantee marketable title. 

I suppose a good probate attorney could figure it out.  Also there is a company called Tax Title Services that claims to be able to clear title as long as you have a tax deed. Their site says "no 6 months for quieting title " implying that they don't use the court.

Chain of title 

Lillie  McJunkin

Mary Pultz 

Stevana Terrie Richards  

Michael Allison 

I'm privy to an escrow file and prelim from Chicago Title that states "grantor Lillie McJunkin never had any legal interest in property". There's the break in title...in 1971 which is years before Anna Milton died. 

Just a friendy note to anyone who is bidding on apn 342110002 in the Riverside county tax sale at ************** 

While this property may appear to have no title issues, a prelim from Chicago Title in 2004 says otherwise. 

Yes it has two home sites, all utilities,  grandfathered permts on two addresses  (22079 and 22111 Louise st), and sits in a redevelopment zone, it cannot be sold without a lengthy probate process that--so far--has been a nonstarter for two prominent probate attorneys on the past 8 years. You have been warned.

I'm looking at a property in Riverside county CALIFORNIA that is coming up for tax sale. The county guarantees that the successful bidder will get the property free of all encumbrances. My problem is that I know a former would-be purchser who got a preliminary title report from Chicago Title that read the owner--and three prior title holders--never had any legal interest in the property. His deal fell out of escrow I Dr the issue. So do tax sale purchases clear all clouds from title, making them marketable? I hope someone will give their views on this.

Skip

He's been in court for a year,  is pro per (no lawyer), but seems to have the blessing of the judge on his case. Why would I write that?  Because in California,  nobody can record a "notice for pendency of action" in a quiet title case unless they have the judge first approve it. Of course if they are represented by counsel the lawyer can do it. Pro per  litigants must ask He judge to sign for on it.

Mike's case would be a remarkable were it not for one little thing: he's in prison.  A case of a con man working the system?  If so, how has ever managed to stay in court so long? Is he judge in on the con?

The answer is "no" of course.  AP cases that involve color of title are unique in terms of how they are possessed. Write on Mike if you like.  He has mail only. No Internet in prison. 

Mike Allison AC9983

P.O. Box 500

Chino, CA. 91708