As many of us who have traversed the complex trail of real estate loans and long lines of credit know – there are certain non-traditional financing options, such as loans to irrevocable trusts and probate estates, that are generally denied by virtually all lenders – with the exception of certain licensed trust lenders… or more specifically, irrevocable trust lenders.

Conventional lending organizations such a credit union or your friendly local bank, will typically deny any loan request of this kind and will rarely approve a loan like this to an irrevocable trust – until the trust has been dissolved and the home title has been converted to the financial interest of a borrower, or individual.

California trust beneficiaries and trustees find out very quickly that funding for a trust is not the type of financing your standard bank or conventional lending firm will deal with. We find that most niche financing can be accomplished for high net worth individuals, or for individuals with an extremely high credit rating… Not so in this case.

Even if you have a fabulous credit score or credit report, most lending organizations will still not fund an irrevocable trust for you.  For example, when you buyout beneficiaries that are instigating family conflicts by insisting that the family sell off inherited property  and wind up selling their inherited property shares to one or more siblings looking to keep the property in the family – and keep a parent’s low property tax base… This will make the sellers happy to do so when they find out that by avoiding a realtor to sell their inherited parental home plus other hidden costs they end up with a lot more cash in their pocket having their sibling or siblings buy them out through a trust loan.

In fact, no matter how urgent or important our situation is, we discover very quickly that the only type of firm that will fund an irrevocable trust is a trust lender, with genuine expertise in property tax relief, and in the subtle measures contained in Proposition 19, and Prop 13. As long as a loan to an irrevocable trust is structured properly by your trust lender, you should be OK buying out sibling property shares while keeping your inherited home at a low Proposition 13 tax base – what property tax professionals refer to as “equalizing the distribution of a trust…”

So, in other words, the party or parties keeping the parent’s home and low property tax base, as well as the beneficiaries selling off their shares, soon realize they are entering into a win-win transaction, where everyone walks away in better shape than when they began!

And that is the unique upside and tremendous benefit that a good trust lender brings to the table… in particular the well known trust lender, Commercial Loan Corp irrevocable trust loan financing, which focuses on helping beneficiaries to keep a parent’s low property tax base, long-term, through the parent-to-child exclusion, and ability to avoid property tax reassessment, through Prop 13 and now Proposition 19, which still protects and breathes life into property tax relief in the state of California. Commercial Loan Corporation can be reached at 877-756-4454.  They have a flawless record for assisting clients avoid property tax reassessment on an inherited home and their testimonials can be viewed on Google with this link.

“These property tax benefits from Proposition 13 came about in California because people didn’t want property tax increases of 25% or 30%, or whatever. It really was out of control. And property tax rates were particularly high and unpredictable and unstable in California, for whatever reason, prior to 1978 when Prop 13 passed. So, as you know, property appreciates let’s say on average 20% per year. For the sake of argument, let’s say 20%. But property tax values are only going up by 3%…

People know intuitively that they can’t rely on the Assessors evaluation. Property value goes up 10% or more let’s say, as opposed to assessed value going up by 2%. That’s a significant difference. Was California really that bad before 1978, when Proposition 13 tax relief went into affect? Yes. California was raising taxes more than any other state, before 1978.

Most seniors – before Prop 13 – were reassessed at present-day rates. And many, many were forced out of their home. They simply could not afford the property tax hikes descending on them. Period. People, especially older people, were being impacted with higher property taxes year after year. And in many cases – with catastrophic results, obviously.”

While at the same time providing the beneficiaries selling off their inherited property shares with more cash than any outside buyer would want to offer them. A definite upside of working with a trust lender, in conjunction with Proposition 19. Obviously, beneficiaries in this sort of equation would have their own attorney or law firm looking over their shoulder, and advising them on the paperwork.

Trust and estate needs are varied and sometimes complex, but taking an experienced view toward the real estate component can offer superior results. One common situation occurs when one heir wants to keep the “old family home,” but the trust entity does not have enough cash or investments to “even the equities” among the beneficiaries. That same heir may want to eventually live in the home, or convert it to a rental property in the future and hold it as a  long-term investment. Either way it is a profitable return.