Q. I need to short sell my Atlanta area home and I have more than one mortgage and a possible HOA lien. What should I know about lien priority?
Liens are statutory claims that may be filed against an owner’s property interest, as long as the lien claimant complies with lien laws.
In a Atlanta GA real estate transaction, “lien priority” refers to the position of one lien over another, which determines which gets paid first in a payoff from a normal market real estate sale, short sale or foreclosure. If a lien (3 comments)
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- 08/26/11 04:01 PM
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