An "assignment of rents" allows the lender to collect the rent payments, if the borrower defaults on their loan payments. 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.A legal document that gives a mortgage lender right to any future profits that may come from leases and rents when a property owner defaults on their loan. Borrower shall pay all taxes, assessments, charges, fines, and impositions attributable to the Property which can attain priority over this Security Instrument,. A deed of trust with assignment of rents gives your lender power to collect rental income from your tenants should you default on the loan. It gives the lender the right to collect any rents that the property generates if you don't make your loan payments. An assignment of rents provision may be set forth within a mortgage, or in a separate instrument.