The buyer signs the promissory note at the closing, and the bank or other lender retains the note until all the obligations are fulfilled. Our attorneys have decades of experience representing registered representatives in promissory note defense cases in the FINRA arbitration forum.Payment Options for your Promissory Note: Structuring payment can have several options: • Lump Sum. Similarly, debt on a promissory note of a house that was already foreclosed can also be discharged through chapter 7 of the bankruptcy code. Title Insurance real estate forms archive containing over 300 forms in MS Word and Adobe acrobat format.