If you are investing with an investor use an Attorney who is instrumental in writing the operation agreement.  

Not only are you looking for the history on the house in question, but you will also have to look at other mortgages held under the persons name to see if the house shows up in those instruments a collateral. 

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A security instrument such as a mortgage or deed of trust would be used and recorded if the lender want's collateral.  

does any one know what the instrument  numbers on a real estate deal mean???

@Herve FrancoisWhen working with your Solo 401(K), any debt instrument must be non-recourse.There are a handful of such lenders, but the leaders operating nationwide include First Western Federal Savings, North American Savings Bank and Titan Bank.To my knowledge, none will do a line of credit. 

In one of the POD CAST , i heard there is some tool for knowing water pipe bust or water leak in entire house. Need more information on this. 

I guess the common problems I see with 1031 fall less to the instrument  and more with the user implementation. 

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