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Originally Posted by Kelphi
Who owns our house notes today?
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Mortgage notes are (or at least were) bundled up into securitizations and sold and resold on the open market like bonds. If you have a mortgage from BofA, for instance, they may still be servicing the loan (sending you statements, etc.), but they don't own the loan. As the servicer, they will have an agreement with the bondholders to protect the interest of the bondholders, who could be a teacher's pension fund or a foreign investor. It's not like the Chinese or anyone else owns our individual mortgages and can come here and foreclose on the house and take it over, as they would generally only own a portion of a particular bond, the remainder of which would be owned by any number of other parties.