Chapter 2
Real Estate Financing: Notes and Mortgages
1. Distinguish between a mortgage and a note.
2. What does default mean? Does it occur only when borrowers fail to make scheduled
loan payments?
3. What is meant by mortgage foreclosure, and what alternatives are there to such
action?
4. What does it mean when a lender accelerates on a note? What is meant by
forbearance?
5. Can borrowers pay off, part or all, of loans anytime that they desire?
6. What does non-recourse financing mean?
7. What does assignment mean and why would a lender want to assign a mortgage loan?