In re Vantage Investments, Inc.

Description: Debtor ′ s objection to deficiency claim sustained in part and overruled in part. Court disallows claim for real estate taxes paid and expenditures incurred for repairs made to real property after a foreclosure sale. Court found claimant had an oral assignment of the necessary loan documents, but that there was insufficient evidence regarding when the assignment occurred to find that it held the loan documents at the time the taxes were paid or expenditures made for the repairs. Absent being the note holder when making expenditures related to property purchased at a foreclosure sale, the purchaser takes the property "as is." Court found claimant foreclosed real and personal property together pursuant to Mo.Rev.Stat.section 400.9-604(a)(2), thus, Part 6 of Article 9 of the UCC was inapplicable and debtor ′ s multiple claims for affirmative relief were unfounded.

Date of opinion: 3/14/08

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In re Gray, (Bkrtcy.E.D.Tenn.)

Plans - Security interest was purchase money security interest, as required to prevent claim bifurcation under hanging paragraph.

A Chapter 13 debtor's prepetition retail installment financing agreement for a vehicle applied the cash down payment and rebates to satisfy the negative equity in the vehicle that the debtor was trading in as a part of the transaction, such that no portion of the loan extended to the debtor to buy the new vehicle was used to pay the negative equity. Therefore, under Tennessee's version of the Uniform Commercial Code, the creditor's security interest in the vehicle was entirely a purchase money security interest, as required for the creditor's secured claim to be protected from bifurcation under the plan confirmation statute's hanging paragraph.