American conveyancing and professional responsibility -- Real estate brokers -- Contract risk of loss and equitable conversion -- The statute of frauds in real property transactions -- Contract of sale conditions -- Remedies for breach of contract -- Deeds -- Deed descriptions -- Recording acts -- Title searches, abstracts, title insurance, reforms, and Torrens laws -- Closings -- Mortgage lenders and markets -- Variations on conventional mortgages -- Equitable mortgages -- Junior liens and mezzanine finance -- Payments, prepayments, and transfers of the mortgage -- Pre-foreclosure remedies -- Foreclosures -- Real estate in trouble