‘Borrower’ means a natural person who is a mortgagor or grantor of a deed of trust under a residential mortgage loan. The term does not include a natural person who:

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 107.410

  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Trustee: means the trustee of record. See Nevada Revised Statutes 107.015

1.  Has surrendered the secured property as evidenced by a letter confirming the surrender or the delivery of the keys to the property to the mortgagee, trustee, beneficiary of the deed of trust or an authorized agent of such a person.

2.  Has filed a case under 11 U.S.C. Chapter 7, 11, 12 or 13 and the bankruptcy court has not entered an order closing or dismissing the bankruptcy case, or granting relief from a stay of foreclosure or trustee‘s sale.