Rustling Oaks v. Citibank CA2/1

BACKGROUND

Rustling Oaks’s complaint in this case sought to quiet title to residential property located on Rustling Oaks Drive in Agoura Hills (the property), obtain declaratory relief regarding the title to the property and the rights and obligations of the parties, cancel an assignment of a deed of trust, and enjoin sale of the property. The complaint alleges that Rustling Oaks acquired title to the property in 2012 or 2013 through the Morrison Ranch Estates Homeowners Association (the Association), which acquired its title through a 2012 trustee’s sale foreclosing upon a delinquent assessment lien recorded in 2009. During the time in which Rustling Oaks alleges it and its predecessor, the Association, acquired title there were two pertinent pending court cases that affected the title to, and encumbrances upon, the property: a dissolution of marriage action in Ventura County Superior Court (No. SD034117) and an action by Citibank for judicial foreclosure in Los Angeles County Superior Court (No. BC448518). We recount the chronology and nature of the pertinent events affecting the Property based upon the allegations of the complaint in this case, and the superior court record in…