You’ll only need to evaluate the deals to make sure they are good investments and protect yourself as a lien holder in first position.

My servicing business was very similar to your thoughts, had the right to continue advancing payments to the note holder under another agreement and proceed to foreclosure of the assigned note and DOT.

Owning real estate where the deed holder is an LLC (if done correctly) is a powerful asset protection tool.

"Notice of sale was given to the Trusses and not the Trusses' grantee who was the title holder at the time of the tax sale.

However, for a fix and holder, who wants to build equity - I prefer return on equity as a measure I track (and roughly estimate for the long term) to compare to alternative investment like stocks/bond).

Here’s what I’d add from my experience - feel free to add or amend as needed.Additional interest is much the same as “certificate holder”.

So - my question - my current mortgage holder gave me two options to refi and remove my wife's name from the loan both keep the current 4.x% rate but one can be done within 45 days and the loan starts again at 30 years.The other option, an assumption process, takes 4-6 months, retains the 4.x% rate but keeps the life of the loan at the current 24 months.I'll be rolling a HELOC into the loan.My question is:  the longer term of 30 years will lower the monthly outlay a little bit and speed the process of getting my wife's name off the loan. 

When you lend the money you are listed as the first lien holder.  

Was the easement just for ingress and egress to the lake or is the easement holder also entitled to park there and put out a chair? 

this stimulates investments into business's and there are rules to follow  like the note holders cannot be direct relatives  etc. the cost of setting up  dictates its only worth it for 7 figure and above cash investments..