§ 52012

Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 497, Sec. 1.

“Home” means real property and improvements thereon consisting of a single dwelling unit and which is owned by a mortgagor who occupies or intends to occupy the unit. “Home” includes an owner-occupied condominium unit, a unit in a stock cooperative where the occupant is a shareholder, and any dwelling structure consisting of two-, three-, or four-family dwelling units, one unit of which is occupied by the owner of the units, and, which units were first occupied as homes at least five years before the mortgage with respect to the owner-occupied unit is executed.

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