In a deed in lieu of foreclosure, a defaulting borrower agrees to convey the mortgaged property to the mortgage lender. But handing over the keys can raise a number of potential pitfalls. Below, we discuss some of these...more
Real estate borrowers often prefer nonrecourse loans, which can eliminate or reduce the risk of having to satisfy a deficiency judgment if a project goes bad. However, most nonrecourse loans have carve-outs or exceptions to...more
An annoying question for lenders is whether or not a lender can enforce two loans to the same borrower and secured by the same property. The nagging issue is usually raised when a lender makes (1) a first loan and an...more
His light was red, swore the nuns. My light was green, slurred the drunk. Question of fact, ruled the judge. Summary judgment, denied. If cases were that simple, our courts wouldn’t have enough to do. Trial court motion...more
On Friday, May 5, 2017, in a major victory for lenders, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the North Carolina Court of Appeals’s decision in United Community Bank v. Wolfe. In July 2015, the Court of Appeals decided in...more
This summer, the South Carolina Court of Appeals decided the appeal of Coastal Federal Credit Union v. Brown. The Court had to determine which statute of limitations applied to the credit union’s action to collect a...more
Given the choice, a borrower in foreclosure may prefer that a jury determine her fate, rather than a judge. But by statute, “[a]ll mortgages shall be foreclosed in equity” and “foreclosure claim[s] shall, if tried, be tried...more
The Indiana Court of Appeals recently held that creditors must move for an in personam remedy in the original foreclosure judgment or forfeit their right to collect deficiency funds. In Elliott v. Dyck O’Neal, the bank...more
When a borrower’s default results in a foreclosure sale and purchase of the secured property by the mortgagee lender, can a guarantor’s deficiency liability be reduced by the difference between the property’s fair market...more
Recently, and shortly after my visit to several lender clients to make presentations regarding, among other topics, the enforceability of commercial guaranty agreements and the sham guaranty defense, the California Court of...more
Since a lender must have a valid debt and valid lien to conduct a trustee’s sale, a borrower that allows the foreclosure sale to occur impliedly agrees that the debt and lien are valid. In Madison v. Groseth and BT Capital,...more
Among the many changes in the financial services industry, two important events occurred this year that effectively signaled the extinction of deficiency judgments in loans secured by residential property. ...more
In CSA 13-101 Loop, LLC v. Loop l01, LLC, et al., Loop 101 borrowed $15.6 million from MidFirst (which later assigned its rights under the loan to CSA as an intercompany transfer) to build a commercial office building. The...more
In Enloe v. Kelso, 2013 WL 3357884 (2d Dist. 2013), the Second District Court of Appeal wrote a (characteristically) “short and sweet” opinion holding that the prohibition on obtaining a deficiency judgment under a deed of...more
In This Issue: - Missouri Foreclosures: A Changing Landscape? - Missouri Law on Non-Judicial Foreclosure: A Primer Measuring Deficiencies Under Missouri Law - Fischer & Frichtel - Sunrise Farms - Conclusion...more