Owner financing a property in a land trust

[Joe S.]

I had one investor tell me before that they put their properties into a land trust and then owner finance the property without taking it out of the land trust. I had a hard time wrapping my mind around that. Any land trust experts out there?

[Don Konipol]

The property ownership was not transferred, control of the entity was. If the property was owned by a corporation the Corp stock would have changed ownership, with title remaining in the name of the Corp. if the property was titled in an LLC, the membership of the LLC would change. In a transfer of trust, it's the beneficiary of the trust that changes, sometimes along with the trust protector ( if the trust has one) or trustee, and trustor. The title remains in the trusts name. Did the investor tell you why he did this instead of a simple title transfer?