Some unscrupulous individuals have passed themselves off as owners
of a house belonging to others ( particularly seniors ), have obtained
mortgages, and stolen the funds.
Would taking out a home-equity line-of-credit serve as a first line
of defense against this? My reasoning is that a given bank would
not be ready to grant a mortgage on a property on which there is
an existing (potential) lien.
B.R. 09/10/03
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