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WHERE THE BANK ATTEMPTS TO DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE WITH THE NOTICE REQUIRMENTS OF RPAPL 1304 WITH PROOF OF THE STANDARD OFFICE MAILING PROCEDURE, A DEFENDANT BORROWER MAY REBUT THE PRESUMPTION OF PROPER MAILING AND RECEIPT WITH PROOF OF A MATERIAL DEVIATION FROM THE BANK’S MAILING PROCEDURE; WHERE THERE ARE MULTIPLE BORROWERS, THE BANK NEED ONLY NAME ONE IN THE ELECTRONIC FILING REQUIRED BY RPAPL 1306 (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge DiFiore, over a concurring opinion, answering two certified questions from the Second Circuit, determined: (1) where, in an action for foreclosure, the bank attempts to demonstrate compliance with the mailing and notice requirements of RPAPL 1304 with proof of the standard office mailing procedure, a defendant borrower can rebut the presumption of proper mailing and receipt with proof of a material deviation from the bank’s mailing procedure; and (2) where there are multiple borrowers, the bank need only provide information about one borrower in the bank’s electronic filing required by RPAL 1306. Here the defendants alleged there was a material deviation from the bank’s mailing procedure because the bank averred the envelopes for the RPAPL 1304 notice are “created upon default,” but the notices were dated almost a year after the initial payment default. The Court of Appeals expressed no opinion whether the “nearly one-year gap” was a material deviation from the bank’s mailing procedure such that the presumption of proper mailing and receipt was rebutted. The court noted the borrowers’ claim they never received the notice is not, standing alone, sufficient to rebut the presumption:

What is necessary to rebut the presumption that a RPAPL 1304 notice was mailed will depend, in part, on the nature of the practices detailed in the affidavit. Moreover, contextual considerations may also factor into the analysis. For example, here, [the bank] points out that residential notes and mortgages are negotiable instruments that often change hands at various points during their duration, which may impact the timing of the creation and mailing of RPAPL 1304 notices—a contextual factor a court could consider in assessing whether a purported deviation from routine procedure was material. We reject defendants’ argument that a single deviation from any aspect of the routine office procedure necessarily rebuts the presumption of mailing. Such a standard would undermine the purpose of the presumption because, in practice, it would require entities to retain actual proof of mailing for every document that could be potentially relevant in a future lawsuit. CIT Bank N.A. v Schiffman, 2021 NY Slip Op 01933, CtApp 3-30-21

 

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