The records of the closed title company MIGHT show how they handled the issue, but more likely they missed this issue otherwise as part of their solution a mortgage satisfaction document would have been recorded at that time. 4.

Do you transfer money directly from your business account to your personal account?

If they have the ability to purchase the note, why can't they just buy it directly from the bank?

Here is the thread I started a few months back detailing my experience with Growth Equity Group, Brett Immel, and their cronies.https://www.biggerpockets.com/...Subsequently, I've had dozens of investors come to me directly, many of them having phone conversations with me, stating how they lost most or all of their retirement funds.

@Andrew Grimmett If a seller is hesitant due to capital gains taxes, consider creative solutions: suggest an installment sale (seller financing) to spread tax liability over time, a 1031 exchange to defer taxes by reinvesting in another property, or a structured sale for flexible deferred payments.

Investors should be extremely cautious with Qualified Intermediaries that also represent (and get paid on) replacement property solutions or Qualified Intermediaries that refer clients to their "associates" or "friends" for replacement property solutions so that they can get paid a referral fee or those that actively put replacement property solutions together in order to make money.  

I've also heard about rolling over some money into a self directed IRA to invest in real estate, but that doesn't really solve my problem. 

So there's not a way to know unless you find out from the seller directly.

Likely your best solution is to do a 1031 exchange. 

And a percentage of the revenue gets auto-directed to the CapEx subaccount.