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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 554.1063

  • Assignee: means a person entitled to enforce an assignment of rents. See Michigan Laws 554.1052
  • Assignor: means a person that makes an assignment of rents or the successor owner of the real property from which the rents arise. See Michigan Laws 554.1052
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Michigan Laws 554.1052
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Rents: means any of the following:
    (i) Sums payable for the right to possess or occupy, or for the actual possession or occupation of, real property of another person. See Michigan Laws 554.1052
  • Tenant: means a person that has an obligation to pay sums for the right to possess or occupy, or for possessing or occupying, the real property of another person. See Michigan Laws 554.1052
  •     (1) Unless otherwise agreed by the assignee, and subject to subsection (3), an assignee that collects rents following enforcement under section 8 or 9 need not apply them to the payment of expenses of protecting or maintaining the real property subject to the assignment.
        (2) Unless a tenant has made an enforceable agreement not to assert claims or defenses, the right of the assignee to collect rents from the tenant is subject to the terms of the agreement between the assignor and tenant and any claim or defense arising from the assignor’s nonperformance of that agreement.
        (3) This act does not limit the standing or right of a tenant, assignor, or other affected person to request a court to appoint a receiver for the real property subject to the assignment or to seek other relief on the ground that the assignee’s nonpayment of expenses of protecting or maintaining the real property has caused or threatened harm to the tenant’s, assignor’s, or other affected person’s interest in the property.