Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

Unless there are other title complications not mentioned in your question, you would get clear title to the house. A deed of trust acts sort of like a place-holder. The technical term is a conditional grant of title. If the loan secured by the deed of trust is paid off, the deed of trust is reconveyed and goes away as if it never affected title. However, if the lender has to foreclose on the loan and conducts a trustee's sale, then it is as if the deed of trust was a full grant deed back when it was recorded. All liens (except tax liens), deeds, later deeds of trust, etc., all are invalidated as if they had happened after A sold the property to you. The state of title reverts back to the recording of the deed of trust as if the property had been sold to you at that time. This assumes, of course, that there are no grounds to challenge the loan, deed of trust, or trustee's sale for any irregularities in that process.