In Re Johnson

MEMORANDUM

KEITH M. LUNDIN, Bankruptcy Judge.

In In re Glenn, 760 F.2d 1428 (6th Cir. 1985), the Sixth Circuit held that a Chapter 13 debtor’s power to cure defaults and reinstate a home mortgage under 11 U.S.C. § 1322(b)(5) 1 ends with the sale of the mortgaged property. These debtors filed Chapter 13 after a courthouse sale of their mortgaged homestead but before the recording of a trustee’s deed to the successful purchaser. Because the “sale” occurred before the petition, these debtors are precluded by Glenn from curing defaults and reinstating the mortgage. The following are findings of…