A deed of trust is a real estate security document. If the deed for outofstate property names your Arizona trust, your Arizona trust terms then control its disposition.Simply sign a quit claim deed as grantor transferring the title from you to the trust as grantee. The deed needs to be witnessed, notarized, and then recorded. In real estate transactions, a trust deed transfers the legal title of a property to a third party until the borrower repays their debt to the lender. The short answer is no, trusts generally do not need to be recorded in Arizona. It involves gathering necessary information, such as the property description, grantor and trustee names, and trust names. First, a deed must be prepared transferring the ownership of the house from your name into the name of your trust. Take the original signed and notarized Deed of Trust and Promissory Note to the County Recorder's Office for the county where the property is located. It does not transfer the ownership of real property in the usual sense.