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THE “NOTICE OF INTENT TO FORECLOSE” FELL SHORT OF AN ACCELERATION OF THE MORTGAGE DEBT AND DID NOT TRIGGER THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR THE FORECLOSURE ACTION (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s motion pursuant to RPAPL 1501(4) to cancel and discharge a mortgage should not have been granted. The ground for the motion was the claim the statute of limitations for a foreclosure action had run. But the Second Department determined the “Notice of Intent to Foreclose” did not accelerate the mortgage. Therefore the statute of limitations had not begun to run:

“‘The law is well settled that, even if a mortgage is payable in installments, once a mortgage debt is accelerated, the entire amount is due and the Statute of Limitations begins to run on the entire debt'” … . Acceleration occurs, inter alia, by the commencement of a foreclosure action wherein the holder of the note elects in the complaint to call due the entire amount secured by the mortgage, or through an unequivocal acceleration notice transmitted to the borrower … . A notice of acceleration of a debt must be clear and unequivocal, and to constitute such clear and unequivocal acceleration of a debt, the notice must demand an immediate payment of the entire outstanding loan and not refer to acceleration only as a future event … .

Here, the plaintiff failed to establish her prima facie entitlement to judgment on the complaint as a matter of law. The language in a 2008 “Notice of Intent to Foreclose,” that the mortgage debt would be accelerated if the borrower did not pay the arrears as set forth in the notice by September 19, 2008, was merely an expression of future intent that fell short of an actual acceleration … . Sansone v North Shore Invs. Realty Group, LLC, 2023 NY Slip Op 03876, Second Dept 7-19-23

Practice Point: Where the mortgage debt is paid in installments, the debt must be accelerated to start the statute of limitations for a foreclosure action. Here the “Notice of Intent to Foreclose” was a statement of future intention which did not accelerate the debt.

 

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