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Melvin Watt: There is no rational reason, if you think about it, why a superior tax lien would be having an interest rate of 10, 11…

On the recordMay 10, 2017
There is no rational reason, if you think about it, why a superior tax lien would be having an interest rate of 10, 11, 12 percent when a lien subordinate to it is going at 4 percent or 5 percent.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina

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Watt discusses irrational interest rates in tax liens versus subordinate liens.

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