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To: jennyjenny

If someone slips on your icy walk and sues you, do you think your mortgage company will pay? Indeed, you own the property, it just has a lien on it.

Many mortgages stipulate you may not detract from the value of the property, but certainly not all of them.

The idea that the bank “owns the stove”, is absolute nonsense.


74 posted on 02/04/2009 9:42:42 AM PST by patton (SPQA - the last, the least and the lost)
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To: patton

A purchase agreement will state whether or not appliances are included in the sale. The bank requires an appraisal on the property. The appraisal will state if built in appliances are included, or not, in the collateral and make adjustments to the value of the house based on that. There are personal items that are often sold with the property that the bank and the appraisal do not consider part of the real estate and typically the bank will not finance those things. A built in stove is considered by both to be part of the real estate and can be included in the financing.


80 posted on 02/04/2009 9:49:11 AM PST by jennyjenny
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