Any claim for any unlawful foreclosure falls on the lender.

Assume that a foreclosed upon borrower wins a case and shows that the foreclosure was unlawful.

Again though, I'm not looking for legal advice, but does anyone side with me on the fact that a double close would eliminate any of the reasons they sited for unlawful actions?

Mess up in your business, only business assets are generally at risk, I say generally because you could act with malice or perhaps gross negligence or unlawfully, let's say a fraudulent act, ill gotten gains can be traced to where ever they may lie....look at Madoff!

I'm not looking to do any unlawful!

I did talk to Khristi about the outcome, however I wanted to update it here.Two years after talking to the investigator I was summoned by the State of Florida in a law suit for unlawfully practicing real estate without a license.

Let's say a possible tenant found your home or apartment for rent and you did a background check on them and it comes back squeeky clean but you find out that they have legal problems such as divorce or they did an unlawful act and they are in litigation because of it.

Did you serve them with an Unlawful Detainer order?

Most all notes have provisions for assignment of rents, not doing so becomes fraud and embezzelment or an unlawful collection of bank funds/assets.

I copied the relevant section from Ohio law below For purposes of the immunity created by division (B)(1) of this section, reasonably necessary force to repel a trespasser from a building or other structure that is maintained as a permanent or temporary dwelling or to prevent a trespasser from making an unlawful entry into a building or other structure of that nature may include the taking of or attempting to take the trespasser’s life, or causing or attempting to cause physical harm or serious physical harm to the person of the trespasser, if the owner, lessee, or renter of real property or a member of the owner’s, lessee’s, or renter’s family who resides on the property has a reasonable good faith belief that the owner, lessee, or renter or a member of the owner’s, lessee’s, or renter’s family is in imminent danger of death or serious physical harm to person and that the only means to escape from the imminent danger is to use deadly force or other force that likely will cause physical harm or serious physical harm to the person of the trespasser, even if the owner, lessee, renter, or family member is mistaken as to the existence or imminence of the danger of death or serious physical harm to person.