(a) The foreclosing mortgagee shall prepare the public notice of the public sale. The public notice shall state:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-27

  • Borrower: means the borrower, maker, cosigner, or guarantor under a mortgage agreement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • Department: means the department of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mailed: means to be sent by first class mail, postage prepaid, unless otherwise expressly directed in this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgage: means a mortgage, security agreement, or other document under which property is mortgaged, encumbered, pledged, or otherwise rendered subject to a lien for the purpose of securing the payment of money or the performance of an obligation. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • Mortgage agreement: includes the mortgage, the note or debt document, or any document amending any of the foregoing. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • Mortgaged property: means the property that is subject to the lien of the mortgage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagee: means the current holder of record of the mortgagee's or the lender's interest under the mortgage or the current mortgagee's or lender's duly authorized agent. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Mortgagor: means the mortgagor or borrower named in the mortgage and, unless the context otherwise indicates, includes the current owner of record of the mortgaged property whose interest is subject to the mortgage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • Owner-occupant: means a person, at the time that a notice of default and intention to foreclose is served on the mortgagor under the power of sale:

    (1) Who owns an interest in the residential property, and the interest is encumbered by the mortgage being foreclosed; and

    (2) For whom the residential property is and has been the person's primary residence for a continuous period of not less than two hundred days immediately preceding the date on which the notice is served. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1

  • Property: means property (real, personal, or mixed), an interest in property (including fee simple, leasehold, life estate, reversionary interest, and any other estate under applicable law), or other interests that can be subject to the lien of a mortgage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 667-1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(1) The date, time, and place of the public sale;
(2) The unpaid balance of the moneys owed to the mortgagee under the mortgage agreement;
(3) A description of the mortgaged property, including the address and the tax map key number of the mortgaged property;
(4) The name of the mortgagor and the borrower;
(5) The name of the foreclosing mortgagee;
(6) The name of any prior or junior creditors having a recorded lien on the mortgaged property before the recordation of the notice of default and intention to foreclose under § 667-23;
(7) The name, the address in the State, and the telephone number in the State of the person in the State conducting the public sale; and
(8) The terms and conditions of the public sale.
(b) The public notice shall also contain wording substantially similar to the following in all capital letters:

“THE DEFAULT UNDER THE MORTGAGE AGREEMENT MAY BE CURED NO LATER THAN THREE BUSINESS DAYS BEFORE THE DATE OF THE PUBLIC SALE OF THE MORTGAGED PROPERTY BY PAYING THE ENTIRE AMOUNT WHICH WOULD BE OWED TO THE FORECLOSING MORTGAGEE IF THE PAYMENTS UNDER THE MORTGAGE AGREEMENT HAD NOT BEEN ACCELERATED, PLUS THE FORECLOSING MORTGAGEE’S ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, AND ALL OTHER FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE FORECLOSING MORTGAGEE RELATED TO THE DEFAULT, UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED TO BETWEEN THE FORECLOSING MORTGAGEE AND THE BORROWER. THERE IS NO RIGHT TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR ANY RIGHT OF REDEMPTION AFTER THAT TIME. IF THE DEFAULT IS SO CURED, THE PUBLIC SALE SHALL BE CANCELED.”

(c) If the default is not cured as required by the notice of default and intention to foreclose, the foreclosing mortgagee shall have a copy of the public notice of the public sale of the mortgaged property:

(1) Mailed or delivered to the mortgagor and the borrower at their respective last known addresses;
(2) Mailed or delivered to any prior or junior creditors having a recorded lien on the mortgaged property before the recordation of the notice of default and intention to foreclose under § 667-23;
(3) Mailed or delivered to the state director of taxation;
(4) Mailed or delivered to the director of finance of the county where the mortgaged property is located;
(5) Posted on the mortgaged property or on such other real property of which the mortgaged property is a part; and
(6) Mailed or delivered to any other person entitled to receive notice under section 667-5.5 or 667-21.5.
(d) The foreclosing mortgagee shall have the public notice of the public sale:

(1) Printed in not less than seven-point font and published in the classified section of a newspaper that is published at least weekly and having a general circulation in the county in which the mortgaged property is located. The public notice shall be published once each week for three consecutive weeks, constituting three publications. The public sale shall take place no sooner than fourteen days after the date of the publication of the third public notice advertisement; or
(2) Not less than twenty-eight days before the date of the public sale, published on a state website at the discretion of the agency that maintains the website; provided that:

(A) If the mortgaged property is owned by an owner-occupant, the public notice shall be published on a website maintained by the department. The department shall publish the public notice pursuant to this subparagraph upon satisfaction of the filing requirements of section 667-76(b); and
(B) The public notice shall be published at least once in the format described in paragraph (1) at least fourteen days prior to the public sale.