IRS trumps lender in case of wrong Michigan county

It sometimes pays to check a map.

Those are the exact words of a federal appeals court in a decision that bars a mortgage company from being first to put a lien on a property in northern Michigan.

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, known as MERS, supplied a $400,000 mortgage to Tammy Church in 2006. The company filed an interest in Church’s property with the Kalkaska County recorder of deeds. But there’s a problem: The property is in Rapid City in Antrim County.

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I’ll post up the opinion as soon as I get it…

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Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc v. Tammy Church