Lin

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Helen Lin (Lin) appeals from a judgment entered on an order sustaining a demurrer without leave to amend in favor of defendant Mireya B. Coronado (Coronado). In her operative first amended complaint, Lin alleges she “pooled” her $150,000. with $100,000 provided by River Forest Financial LLC (River Forest) and Elevation Investments LLC (Elevation) “in partnership for the purchase” of a residential property (the property) at a foreclosure auction for the purchase price of $250,000.

The original version of the trustee’s deed for the property specified that River Forest had a 75 percent interest in the property and Elevation had a 25 percent ownership interest in the property, but Lin was named on that version of the deed as a grantee without any stated percentage interest in the property. Lin alleges that the trustee’s deed that was executed and recorded omitted Lin’s name, which name had been included in the unrecorded, original trustee’s deed; River Forest subsequently quitclaimed the property to Elevation; and without Lin’s knowledge, Elevation then sold the property to Coronado. Lin claims that the alteration of the original deed renders it void,…