She held the note in exchange for us paying more than we should have for the house.

I need to replace a 25 year old furnace with a bad heat exchanger.

It refers to getting a property under contract to purchase, and then assigning your contractual rights to another party, via a contract assignment, in exchange for some consideration (an "assignment fee").  

All contracts in RE must show that payment is made for the financial consideration, that can be measured, given in exchange for payment. 

Beware that there are a lot of scammers since they promise citizenship in exchange for the investment.

Wishing you the best of luck and look forward to exchanging ideas.Cheryl

That is longer than you said, but they also have a trading exchange where you can buy out someone's portion at a discount/premium

That is, the Ringgit will eventually recover and I see this as nothing more than an opportunity to buy what's already cheap real estate at a cash discount.The flip side, of course, is you'll receive rent in a depressed currency so you either have to spend the money locally (buy more property?)

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The reason is because foreclosures have a 7 year time frames from the date the bank took back the property and the title exchanged hands however, if you can document it happened during the trustee's control of your assets (within the BK CH7) then the BK time frames of 4 years from the date of discharge applies (this is key!).