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About BankruptcyRealEstateInsights

Vicki R. Harding was a partner in the Detroit office of Pepper Hamilton LLP who moved to Arizona seeking warmer weather. Ms. Harding continues to handle commercial transactions with an emphasis on real estate and bankruptcy issues (but no longer owns a snow shovel).

Foreclosure: Will a Last Minute Sale Survive?

In re Cook, 481 B.R. 265 (Bankr. N.D.N.Y. 2012) – A couple of hours before the Cooks filed a chapter 13 bankruptcy case, their home was sold at a foreclosure sale as the final step in a foreclosure of the first … Continue reading

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Mortgagees Beware: Stay Relief Does Not Mean You Are Home Free

Trauner v. State Bank & Trust Co. (In re Solid Rock Development Corp.), 481 B.R. 221 (Bankr. N.D. Ga. 2012) – A lender obtained relief from the automatic stay in a bankruptcy so that it could proceed with foreclosure of … Continue reading

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Prepetition Post-Default Rents: Who Gets the Cash – Round 2?

In re Prospect Studios, L.P., 478 B.R. 367 (Bankr. W.D. Mo. 2012) – In Prospect Studios, the law firm representing a chapter 11 debtor requested court authority to apply a prepetition retainer to payment of its fees.  Since the source of … Continue reading

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Prepetition Fire Insurance Proceeds: Who Gets the Cash?

Crews v. TD Bank, N.A. (In re Crews), 477 B.R. 835 (Bankr. M.D.Fla. 2012) – A mortgaged building was destroyed by fire prior to the mortgagor’s bankruptcy filing.  In an earlier opinion the bankruptcy court held in that the mortgagee had … Continue reading

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Protecting Utilities: Would You Believe a Bill Payment is a Settlement Payment Under a Forward Contract?

Lightfoot v. MX Energy Electric, Inc. (In re MBS Management Services, Inc.), 690 F.3d 352 (5th Cir. 2012) – The bankruptcy trustee of a property management company sought to recover money paid to a power company prior to bankruptcy as … Continue reading

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Rent as Administrative Expense: Can a “Terminated” Lease Also Be “Unexpired”?

Super Nova 330 LLC v. Gazes, 693 F.3d 138 (2d Cir. 2012) – In Super Nova the landlord obtained issuance of a warrant of eviction, but was not able to execute on the warrant prior to the bankruptcy filing.  The … Continue reading

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