Senior Mortgage Debt	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
Notes to Financial Statements
Senior Mortgage Debt	9. Senior Mortgage Debt Senior mortgage debt is the estimated financing liability attached to a real estate asset acquired by the foreclosure of the Company’s junior financing. The senior mortgage debt’s balance and terms are often unavailable at the time of foreclosure. Because the Company is not the legal borrower, the senior mortgage debt’s agents assert that this information can not be disclosed on account of the borrower’s privacy rights. Different jurisdictions often have different privacy regulations and disclosure of the legal borrower’s obligations is complicated by competing, if not conflicting jurisdictional claims of the note, property, borrower, servicing agent, senior debt owner, new property owner and federal regulations. The Company must also proceed cautiously in disclosing its position as the new property owner to the senior mortgage debt’s owner or agents. Many notes have acceleration clauses that may be activated by transfer, sale or foreclosure on the property. Although California law is generally written to prevent a senior mortgage debt from acceleration on account of foreclosure, every situation is different and the costs of defending the notes accelerated maturity could easily exceed the potential recovery from monetizing the foreclosed asset’s estimated residual equity. Due to the frequency of senior loan modifications and the frequency of misleading or inaccurate information provided by former owners or agents, the Company does not provide the individual terms or balances of its REO senior mortgage debt.

Senior Mortgage Debt

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

9. Senior Mortgage Debt

Senior mortgage debt is the estimated financing liability attached to a real estate asset acquired by the foreclosure of the Company’s junior financing. The senior mortgage debt’s balance and terms are often unavailable at the time of foreclosure. Because the Company is not the legal borrower, the senior mortgage debt’s agents assert that this information can not be disclosed on account of the borrower’s privacy rights. Different jurisdictions often have different privacy regulations and disclosure of the legal borrower’s obligations is complicated by competing, if not conflicting jurisdictional claims of the note, property, borrower, servicing agent, senior debt owner, new property owner and federal regulations.

The Company must also proceed cautiously in disclosing its position as the new property owner to the senior mortgage debt’s owner or agents. Many notes have acceleration clauses that may be activated by transfer, sale or foreclosure on the property. Although California law is generally written to prevent a senior mortgage debt from acceleration on account of foreclosure, every situation is different and the costs of defending the notes accelerated maturity could easily exceed the potential recovery from monetizing the foreclosed asset’s estimated residual equity. Due to the frequency of senior loan modifications and the frequency of misleading or inaccurate information provided by former owners or agents, the Company does not provide the individual terms or balances of its REO senior mortgage debt.

EASTERN LIGHT CAPITAL, INC. 10-Q/A