The Board denied the veteran's request for a waiver of her loan guaranty indebtedness, finding that recovery would not be against equity and good conscience due to her continued use of the property without making mortgage payments.
The deciding factor: The veteran continued to live in the home rent-free for over 1 year after defaulting on her mortgage payments and did not attempt to mitigate her damages by selling the home privately, which was considered unfair gain given her contractual obligation to indemnify the government under the loan guaranty program.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 14, 2005
- Citation
- 0501253
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What this means for you
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