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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 554.1055

  • Assignee: means a person entitled to enforce an assignment of rents. See Michigan Laws 554.1052
  • Assignment of rents: means a transfer of an interest in rents in connection with an obligation secured by real property located in this state and from which the rents arise. 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
  • Document: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored on an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Michigan Laws 554.1052
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • 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
  • Security interest: means an interest in property that arises by agreement and secures performance of an obligation. See Michigan Laws 554.1052
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Michigan Laws 554.1052
  •     (1) A document creating an assignment of rents may be submitted for recording to the register of deeds in the same manner as any other document evidencing a conveyance of an interest in real property.
        (2) Upon recording, the security interest in rents created by an assignment of rents is fully perfected, even if a provision of the document creating the assignment or law of this state other than this act would preclude or defer enforcement of the security interest until the occurrence of a subsequent event, including a subsequent default of the assignor, the assignee‘s obtaining possession of the real property, or the appointment of a receiver.
        (3) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (4), a perfected security interest in rents takes priority over the rights of a person that, after the security interest is perfected, does either of the following:
        (a) Acquires a judicial lien against the rents or the real property from which the rents arise. If the judicial lien arises out of a construction lien, the priority of the security interests in the rents must be determined under the construction lien act, 1980 PA 497, MCL 570.1101 to 570.1305.
        (b) Purchases an interest in the rents or the real property from which the rents arise.
        (4) A perfected security interest in rents has priority over the rights of a person described in subsection (3) with respect to future advances to the same extent as the assignee’s security interest in the real property has priority over the rights of that person with respect to future advances.