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If you have a mortgage, does that mean its on the property too or just the building?

We have a mortgage with about 16,000 left and we have bad credit, but we need to either add on or do something and we were wondering if we could try to get a modular put on our land and then put the rest of the mortgage owed onto the balance of whatever the new house would cost, if we put the land as colateral.

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  • blorgo
    Lv 5
    2 decades ago
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    A mortgage on real estate generally includes the lot, unless it's a condo or a townhouse. This will be spelled out in the property deed. What you are suggesting is actually refinancing the existing loan and adding the modular unit to it. Talk to a mortgage loan officer at your bank or savings and loan. It's possible that you can do this, since your mortgage balance is so small. Your credit score will have a bearing on the bank's willingness to do this, but the equity you have in the house you are currently living in may be sufficient collateral to persuade them to do it. You've gotta talk to the lending institution to determine the feasibility of what you want to do.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    it depends on how it was written

    it usually is on both when it comes to people buying homes to live in

    but again if this is a spacial case and the land is owned by an association the house is on..then it very well be on only the house.

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