The statement is provided by the mortgage servicer and can be requested at any time. Accurate payoff information is crucial for managing financial decisions related to property ownership.
Under federal law, the servicer must generally send you a payoff statement within seven business days of your request, subject to a few exceptions. (12 C.F.R. § 1026.36.)
The new law does not disturb New York's six-year statute of limitations on mortgage foreclosure actions. It simply restores a common-sense principle: no party may unilaterally stop and restart the statute of limitations to revive what would otherwise be a time-barred action.
Under New Hampshire law, the borrower typically receives just one warning about the foreclosure sale: a notice of sale. The lender has to personally serve the notice of sale to the borrower or mail it at least 45 days before the sale and publish it in a newspaper once a week for three weeks before the sale. (N.H. Rev.