flu I understand but what is on the tax record and what the lender requires are orthogonal. The lender will not lend to a trust, period. The lender will lend to a person or persons for residential real estate. Forget corp entities for the moment. So in order to get financing the trust deed will be in their name. No way around it. Once that is recorded then that will be on the tax record. Now, they can create a trust and move it into the trust and record that deed. However the initial financing will be done AND recorded in their name. If they wanna pay cash for the home, then it is a different story.