Applegate Apartments Ltd. Partnership v. Commercial Coin Laundry Systems

The issue in this case is the quality of notice required to be given to a tenant in possession by a mortgagee in a consent mortgage foreclosure proceeding.

The mortgagee is Home Savings of America (Home Savings), which sold the foreclosed property to the plaintiff, Applegate Apartments, which subsequently filed an action for forcible entry and detainer against the defendant, Commercial Coin Laundry Systems, a tenant of the mortgagor under a written lease. The trial judge granted summary judgment to the defendant and denied the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment. He also entered an order…