Trust Real Estate Agent in Costa Mesa, CA
Paula Aragone represents successor trustees selling Costa Mesa property held in a revocable trust, from the Certification of Trust escrow will ask for to the city report of residential building records that has to be applied for within three days of an accepted offer.
A Costa Mesa trust sale is a sale by the successor trustee of a revocable trust, made without a judge, in the one Orange County city that happens to house the probate court. Probate Code 17209 keeps trust administration free of judicial intervention, so there is no hearing at the Costa Mesa Justice Complex, no appraisal floor and no overbid. What replaces the court is a documentation trail, plus one local step no other city in this group requires: the city report of residential building records.
| Court | Not involved. Probate Code 17209 keeps it out. |
|---|---|
| Power to sell | Probate Code 16226 plus the trust instrument |
| Heir notification | Within 60 days, Probate Code 16061.7 |
| Time to contest | 120 days from service of that notification |
| City requirement | Building records report, applied for within 3 days |
| Sewer lateral | Owner's responsibility to the CMSD main |
A City Where Three Quarters of the Houses Predate 1980
Costa Mesa was never master planned. It has no village system, most single family blocks carry no association and no special tax, and the lots are large enough that people kept building on them. Every one of those advantages produces the same problem for a trustee: paperwork nobody kept.
The city's Housing Element records that more than 75 percent of housing units were built before 1980, specifically 79 percent of owner occupied units and 77 percent of rental units. The 2010 type mix was 49.6 percent single family, 34.7 percent in buildings of five or more units, 13.6 percent in two to four unit buildings and 2.1 percent mobile home and other. Condition is reported as relatively good, with less than ten percent needing minor repairs and about two percent needing substantial rehabilitation. Good condition and old systems are not the same statement.
The pre 1950 Westside and downtown band carries raised foundations and post and pier construction, knob and tube remnants, galvanized supply, cast iron drains, original wood sash, lead paint and asbestos era materials. Under floor access is a genuine inspection item in this band and nowhere else in the city. The 1950s, including Halecrest with its raised foundations and cottage and ranch designs, adds early slab construction, galvanized supply at the end of its life and original panels well past service, with Federal Pacific and Zinsco squarely in range.
The 1960s band is the largest single body of housing in the city and the one most trust files land in. Eastside, Mesa Verde, Mesa del Mar and College Park are slab on grade, with galvanized or early copper supply, cast iron drains, original aluminium sliders, obsolete panels, and aluminium branch wiring live for anything permitted from 1965 onward. That is exactly the window the Consumer Product Safety Commission studied, which found pre 1972 homes with aluminium branch wiring far likelier to reach fire hazard conditions at the connections.
Lot size is the city's real differentiator, roughly 7,405 square feet median on the Eastside and roughly 6,969 on the Westside. That is why so much of the stock has been added to, converted or partly rebuilt, and it is why unpermitted additions and converted garages are the most common escrow problem here by a wide margin. The lots were big enough to build on, the houses are old enough that the work often predates current records, and the local culture rewarded square footage.
The 1970s and 1980s attached product in South Coast Metro and Wimbledon is a different file entirely. Polybutylene supply piping, manufactured between 1978 and the middle of 1995, is the item to look for, and association reserve studies and building envelope questions replace the foundation and panel questions of the older detached stock. A trustee holding one attached unit and one Eastside house is running two unrelated sales at once.
The honest reading for a successor trustee is that a Costa Mesa house is usually sound and almost always undocumented. The buyer pool knows this and prices the unknown, not the house. The response is not to hide the gaps, it is to close them: permit search first, report of residential building records applied for on time, a lateral video on older blocks, and a written disclosure that says which questions were answered and which were left open.
Selling a Costa Mesa Trust Property, Step by Step
California law fixes most of this order. Costa Mesa adds one step of its own that runs on a three day clock, and a trustee who learns about it late is already behind.
Establish who holds the pen
Read the trust, the restatement and every amendment to find who succeeds, whether co trustees must act together, and whether a written acceptance is required first. Families are often certain about this and often wrong. Escrow will not take a signature from someone the instrument did not authorise, and unwinding that discovery mid transaction is what turns a clean file into a delayed one.
Serve the sixty day notification and keep proof
Probate Code 16061.7 requires the trustee to notify every beneficiary and every heir of the deceased settlor, including a disinherited one, within sixty days of the trust becoming irrevocable. The notification carries the statutory ten point boldface warning and starts a 120 day contest period. Keep the proof of service, because a title underwriter will eventually ask to see it.
Put the death on the county record
File the Affidavit of Death of Trustee with a certified death certificate at the Orange County Clerk Recorder, main office 601 N. Ross Street, Santa Ana. This is the document that makes the chain of title read the way the trustee describes it. Recording it early converts a potential escrow condition into a line already on the record.
Check whether the deed ever caught up with the trust
Costa Mesa is full of houses bought in the 1950s and 1960s and trusts written thirty years later. If the deed was never changed, title stands in the settlor's name and the trustee cannot sell. Where written intent is documented, a Probate Code 850 petition, the Heggstad petition from Estate of Heggstad (1993) 16 Cal.App.4th 943, confirms the property into the trust.
Pull the permit history before anyone photographs the house
Search Building and Safety records by address and APN, then file a Public Records Act request for permit jackets, approved plans, inspection logs and finals where the online record stops. Pre digitisation gaps are normal here. Compare what you find against the Assessor's recorded square footage, because the difference is usually a garage conversion or a room added decades ago.
Value it inside the quadrant and the era
Probate Code 16003 requires impartiality among beneficiaries and 16060 requires keeping them informed. Eastside and Westside are different products with different median build years and different median lot sizes, Mesa Verde and Mesa del Mar are different again, and South Coast Metro attached product is a fourth market. A citywide comparison is not a valuation a beneficiary should accept.
Apply for the report of residential building records within three days
Municipal Code section 5-120 requires the owner of a residential building to obtain the city report on entering into an agreement of sale, and to apply within three days of that agreement. Section 5-121 gives the city thirty days from a completed application and payment. Section 5-123(b) requires delivery to the buyer before the transaction completes, with a buyer acknowledgment filed within thirty days after closing.
Disclose what the trustee does not know, in writing
A successor trustee who never lived in the house cannot answer questions about it from memory, and should not try. Say what is known, say what was inspected, say what was never opened up. On a 1960s house with an addition of uncertain vintage, a documented uncertainty defends the trustee. An optimistic guess does not.
Market it openly, close, then account
Probate Code 16002 requires administration solely in the interest of the beneficiaries, and 16004 and 16005 forbid self dealing. Broad exposure is the trustee's own defence as much as it is the estate's income. Escrow disburses to the trust, the trustee accounts to the beneficiaries, and any distribution in kind is decided against the tax questions below.
Costa Mesa Quadrant by Quadrant, and What Each Does to a Sale
There is no village system to organise this city, so the quadrant, the tract and the block do the work instead. These are the names that appear on trust files.
Eastside Costa Mesa
East of Newport Boulevard toward the Back Bay, median build year around 1961, midcentury ranch with Colonial Revival and modern farmhouse infill, median lot around 7,405 square feet. City policy favours single family preservation, so blocks stay consistent.
The 17th Street corridor
Eastside's commercial spine and the everyday errand and dining street. It is the reason the Eastside reads as walkable and it is the strongest amenity argument on that side of town that has nothing to do with schools.
Westside Costa Mesa
Median build year around 1960, median lot around 6,969 square feet. Orange County's first tract housing appeared here in the late 1940s and 1950s, spurred by the Santa Ana Army Air Base, now the Orange County Fairgrounds.
19 West
A Westside overlay zone designated as a revitalisation area, permitting residential or mixed use. The reason a Westside parcel has to be evaluated block by block rather than by neighbourhood name.
Mesa West Residential Ownership
A Westside ownership overlay. Overlay zoning is what puts residential next to commercial and industrial here, and noise, odour and vibration from a neighbouring use are disclosure facts, not atmosphere.
Mesa West Bluffs
The third Westside overlay. A trustee selling here should read the zoning designation on the parcel itself rather than relying on how the street looks on a Sunday morning.
Mesa Verde
Bounded by the 405 to the north, Harbor Boulevard east, Victoria Street south and the Santa Ana River west, bisected by Adams Avenue. Largely built in the 1960s and 1970s, anchored by Mesa Verde Country Club, opened January 1959.
Mesa del Mar
An early 1960s tract north of the Fairgrounds, consistent single story and two story ranch product on regular lots. One of the most cohesive mid 1960s neighbourhoods in the city, which makes valuation unusually clean here.
College Park
Adjacent to Orange Coast College and the Fairgrounds. Established, with varied lot shapes and a mix of original construction and newer infill, so two houses on the same street can be forty years apart in systems.
Halecrest
Mid 1950s, conceived by Herman Hale and originally named College Estates. Cottage and ranch designs with raised foundations, wide porches and mature landscape. Halecrest Park is a private swim and tennis club rather than a mandatory association.
Hall of Fame
Sits with Halecrest as the north central established pair, with streets named for baseball figures. Same era, same systems questions, and the same permit history gaps on any addition.
South Coast Metro
Attached product, condominiums and townhomes beside South Coast Plaza, Segerstrom Center and the office employment core. Straddles the Costa Mesa and Santa Ana boundary, which affects which city issues the permits.
South Coast and Wimbledon Village
Attached communities within the Metro area, largely 1970s and 1980s. Conventional associations, reserve studies, building envelope questions, and polybutylene supply piping as the recurring item.
Bristol and Paularino
Mixed attached housing near South Coast Plaza and the arts venues. A different buyer pool from the detached quadrants, and a different set of documents, since the association packet drives the timeline.
Downtown Costa Mesa
Along Newport Boulevard and the 19th Street area. Small older lots and the oldest surviving housing in the city, which means raised foundations and the full pre 1950 materials list.
Freedom Homes, Canyon Park, Republic Homes and Sea Bluff
The tract names local agents use inside the broader quadrants, alongside the Fairview area tracts. Useful for a valuation because they identify a builder and a year rather than a general area.
Six Ways a Costa Mesa Trust Sale Loses a Month
Costa Mesa, California
Almost none of it is about the buyer. It is about records that exist somewhere and were requested too late to be useful.
Nobody applied for the city report in the first three days
Municipal Code Title 5, Chapter VIII requires the owner of a residential building to obtain a report of the residential building records on entering into an agreement of sale, and section 5-120 requires the application within three days of that agreement. Section 5-119 describes what the report covers: the zoning of the building, the number of dwelling units permitted under that classification, and other information about use, occupancy and construction.
The city then has thirty days from a completed application and payment under section 5-121, and section 5-123(b) requires the completed report to reach the buyer before the transaction closes, with a buyer acknowledgment filed with the city within thirty days after closing. Section 5-124 lists ten exempt transaction types, including first sale of an unoccupied building, court ordered transfers, foreclosures and transfers into trusts. A transfer into a trust is exempt. A sale by the trustee to an outside buyer is a different transaction and should not be assumed to be.
The addition dad built has no permit behind it
Unpermitted additions and converted garages are the most common Costa Mesa escrow problem, for a structural reason rather than a cultural one. The lots are large enough to build on, three quarters of the stock predates 1980, and much of the work was done before current records existed. The city report is the mechanism by which that surfaces officially, which is exactly why it matters more here than the same ordinance would somewhere else.
The trustee's exposure is not the addition itself, it is the surprise. Search Building and Safety records by address and APN first, then request permit jackets, approved plans, inspection logs and finals through the city's public records portal where the online record stops. Online results are immediate. Staff research takes days to weeks, which is a reason to start it before the listing rather than during escrow.
The sewer lateral runs to the middle of the street and it is the owner's
The Costa Mesa Sanitary District maintains about 224.2 miles of main, but the property owner is responsible for the lateral until it passes the point of connection with the district main, which is usually in the centre of the street. There is no point of sale lateral inspection or certification requirement here; the district runs a voluntary Sewer Inspection Rebate Program instead and tells owners to rod annually for roots.
On 1950s and 1960s Eastside and Westside blocks with mature street trees, a lateral video before listing is inexpensive insurance. A root intrusion finding is a routine repair negotiation, not a deal breaker. What is not routine is a buyer discovering the responsibility line during escrow and rewriting the deal around it.
A flat coastal city woke up in a fire hazard zone
Costa Mesa was one of five Orange County cities newly included in the March 2025 CAL FIRE maps, with Moderate and High zones and no Very High zone. Sellers in a flat coastal plain city do not expect this and frequently have not heard of it.
A High zone parcel triggers AB 38: documentation of defensible space compliance under Civil Code 1102.19, and since 1 July 2025 the fire hardening disclosure covering low cost retrofits from the State Fire Marshal list, which were completed, and known vulnerabilities such as eave and siding gaps, non tempered windows, roofing that is not Class A and combustible landscaping within five feet. Confirm the individual parcel against the state viewer rather than assuming the whole city.
The trustee never lived in the house and answered anyway
A successor trustee who inherits a Costa Mesa house often has never opened a wall, never met the neighbours and does not know when the patio was enclosed. That is a normal position and it is not a defect. Guessing is the defect.
The safer document says what is known, what was inspected, what the permit search produced and which questions remain open. Combined with Probate Code 16060, which requires keeping beneficiaries reasonably informed, it produces a record that protects the trustee against both sides at once: the buyer who later claims concealment and the beneficiary who later claims carelessness.
The notification is still in a drawer
The Probate Code 16061.7 notification goes to every beneficiary and every heir within sixty days, and its service is what starts the 120 day period for contesting the trust. Left unserved, the window never opens and never closes.
Costa Mesa families often deal with this last because there is no court date forcing the issue and the house feels like the urgent item. It is the reverse. Serve the notice, record the affidavit, confirm the deed, then talk about the listing.
Sell the Costa Mesa House, or Let a Child Live In It
A house bought on the Eastside in the early 1960s and held ever since sits at the extreme end of both rules. The spread between the parent's assessed value and today's value is what decides which one is worth more.
The case for selling rests on a basis reset the family already earned
IRC section 1014 resets basis to fair market value at the date of death. On a Costa Mesa house purchased when the tract was new and never sold since, that erases six decades of appreciation for income tax purposes in a single step. Gain is measured only from the date of death forward, which is why a sale within months of the death often produces very little gain and sometimes a small loss once selling costs are counted.
If the parents held the house as community property, IRC 1014(b)(6) resets both halves at the first death rather than only the deceased spouse's half. That is a California result, it is worth checking how title was actually vested, and it is a common reason a surviving spouse's later sale is far cleaner than the family expected.
The holding period question answers itself. IRC 1223(9) treats property that takes its basis under section 1014 as held more than one year when it is sold within a year after death, so long term rates apply even on a fast sale.
The protection is a qualified date of death appraisal, and in this city that appraisal has to be built on the actual condition of a pre 1980 house, including whatever the permit search revealed. A value assumed from a neighbour's sale is not a defensible number when the neighbour's addition was permitted and this one was not.
The case for keeping runs through Proposition 19, with three ways to lose it
For transfers on or after 16 February 2021, the parent to child exclusion applies only to a family home that was the parent's principal residence and becomes the child's principal residence, or to a family farm. Rentals and second homes are fully reassessed, and the old exclusion for other real property under Propositions 58 and 193 is gone. A Costa Mesa family with one house and one rental duplex now gets two different answers.
The deadlines run separately and both are easy to miss. The child claims the homeowners' exemption within one year of the transfer or the date of death, and files form BOE-19-P within three years of death or transfer, or before any transfer to a third party, whichever comes first. The exclusion also terminates if the child stops qualifying.
The exclusion is capped at the parent's factored base year value plus 1,044,586 dollars for transfers between 16 February 2025 and 15 February 2027. Above that, the new taxable value becomes market value minus that adjusted amount. On a low base year value from an early 1960s purchase, the arithmetic frequently still favours keeping, which is exactly why the deadlines matter so much.
Then the counterweight, which nobody enjoys hearing. IRC section 121 requires twenty four months of ownership and twenty four months of use in the five years before sale. A child who moves in only to hold the tax base and sells at month twenty gets no section 121 exclusion and has already given up the clean early sale the basis rule offered. On top of that, the child inherits a 1960s house with deferred systems and a city report that will eventually name every undocumented change. Decide before anyone moves in.
A Trustee Is Judged on the Record, Not on the Result
Paula Aragone has worked Orange County transactions for 23 years, across 900+ transactions and $900M+ sold, and she came to real estate after four years of law school. She holds the CPRES and SRES designations. That background is why estate and family law attorneys route trust files to this office rather than to a general listing agent, and it is why the conversation starts with documents instead of a suggested price.
The duties are not general. Probate Code 16002 requires the trustee to administer the trust solely in the interest of the beneficiaries. Probate Code 16003 requires impartiality among them. Probate Code 16004 and 16005 prohibit self dealing and personal profit. Probate Code 16060 requires keeping beneficiaries reasonably informed. Claims against trustees rarely begin with a complaint about the number. They begin with a sale that looked private: a relative buying, an off market transaction, a value nobody can reconstruct afterwards.
In Costa Mesa the record has its own local content. A permit history search on a pre 1980 house, the city report of residential building records applied for inside the three day window, a lateral inspection on a block with mature trees, a valuation built inside the quadrant and era rather than across the city, and every offer preserved in writing. Each of those is something a beneficiary can ask about later, and each of them has a document behind it if it was ordered on time.
When a beneficiary does object, the petition comes under Probate Code 17200 and the remedies in 16420 include compelling redress, enjoining a breach, removing the trustee, setting acts aside and denying compensation. Probate Code 18100 protects a buyer who dealt with the trustee in good faith, for value and without actual knowledge of any impropriety, so a closed sale is very seldom unwound. The exposure that remains is personal to the trustee. Building the record is how it is answered.
Selling a Costa Mesa Trust Property, Answered
The questions that come up on Costa Mesa trust files, answered against California law and against this city's own municipal code.
The probate court is in Costa Mesa. Do I have to go there to sell a trust property?
No. Orange County probate is heard at the Costa Mesa Justice Complex at 3390 Harbor Blvd., but a trust sale does not go there. Probate Code 17209 provides that trust administration is intended to proceed expeditiously and free of judicial intervention, so there is no confirmation hearing, no requirement that the price reach ninety percent of an appraisal, and no overbid from the courtroom floor. The successor trustee sells under Probate Code 16226 and the powers written into the trust itself.
Does the city report of residential building records apply to a trust sale?
Assume yes until the city tells you otherwise. Municipal Code section 5-120 requires the owner of a residential building to obtain the report on entering into an agreement of sale and to apply within three days. Section 5-124 does list ten exempt transaction types, including court ordered transfers, foreclosures and transfers into trusts, but a transfer into a trust and a sale out of one by a trustee are different transactions. Confirm current administration, fee and turnaround with Building and Safety at the start of the file rather than relying on an assumption in either direction.
How long does the city report take and who gets it?
Section 5-121 gives the city thirty days from a completed application and payment, and an inspection fee applies if the owner consents to an inspection. Section 5-123(b) requires the owner to deliver the completed report to the buyer before the transaction completes, and the buyer then executes an acknowledgment that is filed with the city within thirty days after closing. Thirty days is long enough to matter inside a normal escrow, which is why the three day application clock exists in the first place.
What happens if the report shows work that was never permitted?
It becomes a negotiation rather than a catastrophe, provided the trustee found it first. The report is the official mechanism by which a converted garage or an undocumented addition surfaces in Costa Mesa, and unpermitted work is the city's most common escrow problem because the lots are big, the stock is old and much of the work predates current records. Search Building and Safety records and request the permit jacket before listing. A known issue is priced. A discovered issue is renegotiated, usually against the estate.
Who is responsible for the sewer lateral?
The property owner, all the way to the point of connection with the Costa Mesa Sanitary District main, which is usually in the middle of the street. The district maintains roughly 224.2 miles of main but not the lateral, and there is no point of sale inspection or certification requirement; the district runs a voluntary Sewer Inspection Rebate Program and advises annual rodding for roots. On older blocks with mature street trees a lateral video before listing is cheap, and a root finding is a routine repair rather than a deal breaker.
Does Costa Mesa property carry Mello Roos?
Generally no. The city's housing predates the Mello Roos Community Facilities Act almost entirely, so no significant special tax exposure is expected on the established single family stock. Newer attached infill should still be checked by APN with the Orange County Treasurer Tax Collector, and if a district does apply, Civil Code 1102.6b requires the seller to make a good faith effort to obtain the notice from the levying agency and deliver it. The line item on the tax bill is not that notice.
Is there an HOA on a Costa Mesa house?
On most single family blocks, no, and that is a genuine difference from Irvine and Tustin Ranch. Attached product in South Coast Metro, in Wimbledon and in newer infill carries conventional associations governed by the Davis Stirling Act, with resale packets that drive the escrow timeline. Halecrest's swim and tennis club is a private club rather than a mandatory association in that sense. Verify on the individual parcel from the preliminary title report and the recorded documents, not from the neighbourhood's reputation.
Is Costa Mesa really in a fire hazard severity zone now?
Parts of it are. Costa Mesa was one of five Orange County cities newly included in the March 2025 CAL FIRE maps, carrying Moderate and High zones with no Very High zone. A High zone parcel triggers AB 38 obligations: defensible space compliance documentation under Civil Code 1102.19, and since 1 July 2025 the fire hardening disclosure identifying available low cost retrofits, which ones the seller completed, and known vulnerabilities. Check the specific parcel against the state viewer, because this is a new designation and most of the city is not in it.
Do some Costa Mesa homes feed Newport Harbor High School?
Specific pockets, primarily on the Eastside, do feed Newport Harbor High rather than a Costa Mesa high school, and that difference drives real buyer behaviour on that side of town. Newport Mesa Unified serves both cities, with Costa Mesa High and Estancia High as the comprehensive Costa Mesa schools. Because the boundary source most people quote is a brokerage article and boundaries do change, confirm by APN with the district before any listing or valuation claims it. A cancelled escrow over a school assumption costs the estate weeks.
Are the Westside overlay zones a disclosure issue?
They can be. The 19 West, Mesa West Residential Ownership and Mesa West Bluffs overlays permit residential or mixed use in a part of the city with a real industrial history, including boat builders and manufacturers along 19th Street, some of which has been converted to lofts. Residential sitting next to commercial or industrial means noise, odour and vibration can be block by block realities rather than neighbourhood generalisations. Where the trustee knows about a specific adjacency issue, it is a material fact and it goes in writing.
Is Costa Mesa inside the John Wayne Airport influence area?
Yes, the city sits inside the John Wayne Airport Airport Environs Land Use Plan planning area, and the eastern and northeastern quadrant nearest the airport and the Back Bay is the affected side. The city's own position is that neither the city nor the state regulates aircraft in flight; noise enforcement belongs to Orange County. The FAA SoCal Metroplex project began implementing new departure procedures in March 2017, concentrating flight tracks. Where a tract map or deed carries the notice language, deliver it with the other disclosures.
What does the title company want from a Costa Mesa successor trustee?
In practice a Certification of Trust under Probate Code 18100.5, a certified death certificate, and a recorded Affidavit of Death of Trustee against the parcel through the Orange County Clerk Recorder. Many underwriters also want to see the trust instrument itself and evidence that the Probate Code 16061.7 notification was actually served. These are underwriting practices rather than statutes, so they vary, and the right move is to ask the specific title company at the beginning instead of assembling a package that turns out to be the wrong one.
The deed still shows my father, not the trust. Can I still sell?
Not until it is fixed. If title stands in the settlor's individual name the trustee has nothing to convey. Where the settlor's written intent to hold the property in trust is documented, on a schedule of assets, an assignment or a general transfer, the route is a petition under Probate Code 850, commonly called a Heggstad petition after Estate of Heggstad (1993) 16 Cal.App.4th 943, in which a written declaration naming the settlor as trustee was held sufficient without a separate deed. With no such writing, the property goes through probate instead.
Can I sell the house to my brother, who is also a beneficiary?
You can, and families often want to, but it is the transaction most likely to be challenged later. Probate Code 16002 requires administration solely in the interest of the beneficiaries and 16003 requires impartiality among them, so the trustee has to be able to show the buying beneficiary got no better terms than an outside buyer would have. Expose the property, document the valuation, keep every offer in writing, and disclose the buying beneficiary's interest to the others in writing. A sale that was fair but unrecorded is very hard to defend two years on.
Will selling reset the property taxes for the buyer?
Yes. On a sale to a third party the buyer's assessment is set at the purchase price and the parent's base year value does not carry over. The only route by which a low base year value survives is the Proposition 19 parent to child exclusion, which applies solely where the family home was the parent's principal residence and becomes the child's principal residence, and even then it is capped at the factored base year value plus 1,044,586 dollars for transfers from 16 February 2025 through 15 February 2027.
How fast can a Costa Mesa trust sale close?
As fast as any other sale once the paperwork is right, because no court is involved. What actually extends it here is local and predictable: the city report applied for late and then taking its thirty days, a permit search started after an offer rather than before, a lateral surprise on an older block, a notification never served, or a deed that never made it into the trust. Handle those at the front of the file and the trust part of a trust sale stops being the slow part.
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