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So You’re Saying There’s A Chance: Surpluses In Foreclosure

So You’re Saying There’s A Chance: Surpluses In Foreclosure

We regularly counseled lenders, even before the Talaganov case, that they should try to “ride the coattails” of the senior mortgagee’s foreclosure suit by answering the complaint and seeking any surplus. Failure to participate in the foreclosure will eventually result in the junior lender being proscribed from seeking surplus funds that will exist in some cases.

 

JD SUPRA-

Commercial lenders often take junior or second mortgages on real estate as additional collateral for loans. Unfortunately, because those junior liens are subordinate to the senior liens, they are subject to being eliminated through the foreclosure process if the primary lienholder files suit to foreclose. Oftentimes the junior lender gives-up on the second mortgage and seeks other ways to recover on its loan and does not bother participating in the foreclosure case filed by the senior mortgagee. The decision to walk away from the junior mortgage, however, should be reconsidered.

In the case of JP Morgan Chase Bank v. Talaganov, the junior mortgagee, RBS Citizens, filed an answer to the foreclosure filed by Chase in which it stated that RBS had a mortgage lien, but admitted that Chase had a senior mortgage lien. RBS requested in its answer that it be entitled to any surplus funds. The court eventually entered the judgment of foreclosure and sale, which noted that RBS had a valid junior mortgage in the amount of “TBD.” After the property was sold, a surplus of $66,043.74 existed, which RBS and Talaganov both sought.

[JD SUPRA]

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