Legal Question in Real Estate Law in New Jersey

The bank you are applying to will probably be getting title insurance on the loan. Ask the title insurance company how to locate the agency or bank that took over the old bank's assets. The title company may assist you in having the lien released. Do any of the receipts actually refer to the lien or mortgage and say that it has been released or paid off, and is that receipt signed by an officer of the bank and notarized? If so, that document may be recorded [again, ask the title company] to clear the client.

THIS RESPONSE IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, SINCE I DO NOT HAVE ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED, AND I DO NOT HAVE A REPRESENTATION AGREEMENT WITH YOU.

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