Terms Used In Tennessee Code 47-30-113

  • Borrower: means a natural person who occupies and owns in fee simple individually, or with another borrower as tenants by the entireties or as joint tenants with right of survivorship, an interest in residential real property securing a reverse mortgage loan, and who borrows money under a reverse mortgage loan. See Tennessee Code 47-30-102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
  • lender: means :
    (A) A bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, savings institution, or credit union chartered under the laws of the United States or of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 47-30-102
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.

When a borrower‘s obligation to repay the reverse mortgage loan is triggered under § 47-30-112, in addition to all rights conferred upon owners and borrowers under title 35, chapter 5, the lender must give the borrower not less than sixty (60) days’ notice of its intent to initiate foreclosure proceedings. If the contract so provides, interest will continue to accrue during the sixty-day period.