All deals must be screened for title issues prior to closing and either necessary and appropriate actions must be taken to clean the title or the deal must be scrapped because of unsolvable issues.A title issue, also called a cloud, is any recorded document or state of affairs that prevents the transaction from getting through the title policy underwriting process because of a potential claim to the property in opposition to the seller's.

Many places in our country are now requiring asphalt shingles with some silly notion that asphalt doesn't burn.

Keep in mind, this doesn't prevent you from being charged, it's only a legal defense as to why you were carrying a gun.

Also, if I transfer a property that I already own and have a mortgage on into the LLC, what is to prevent the lender from calling the loan due?

This is not to say that an atttorney could not investigate and track down the owner, etc, but it would take many, many hours at $300-$400 per hour which will add up to thousands of dollars for the party wanting to find out the owner of a property held in a land trust.As far as getting "ratted out", their is a process/procedure to choosing your Trustee, and even if the trustee was looking to "screw you", there are many safeguards in place to prevent that.

You can get as many references as you like for those qualified enough to get these done but that doesnt prevent the fact that guidelines are changing constantly.

I record a memorandum on the property which would prevent them doing this unless I give permission.

They're going to try to prevent you from taking that money.

Is there some type of an agreement you can have between you and all your buyers list that prevents this sort of thing?

The title search will identify those, but you still do not know if they have been properly contacted before the sale so that they have an opportunity to prevent the property from going into the sale in the first place.That is just one example of many that can an do sometimes occur.