Abstract
The collapse of the residential housing market in 2007 brought with it a wave of foreclosures. Subprime borrowers, who were once elated by loans they secured from lenders, suddenly found themselves strangled by the predatory terms of their newfound loans and ultimately became unable to pay their outstanding loan balance. This Comment analyzes the different circumstances under which lenders can foster the creation of zombie mortgages. Particularly, this Comment focuses on stalled and incomplete residential foreclosure sales and failures to execute deeds of sale, tactics which serve to maintain legal liability of the mortgaged property on a borrower. Notwithstanding a lender¿s right to foreclose on residential property to satisfy the obligations that it is owed under a promissory note, this Comment argues that strategic delays in completing a foreclosure sale entitle state courts and legislatures to either (1) force a lender to complete a sale or (2) divest a lender from both its right to foreclose and its security interest.
Recommended Citation
Andrea Clark,
Amidst the Walking Dead: Judicial and Nonjudicial Approaches for Eradicating Zombie Mortgages,
65
Emory L. J.
795
(2016).
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/elj/vol65/iss3/3