A purchaser who defaults at a foreclosure sale is generally liable to the mortgagee for any deficiency between its bid and the amount obtained at a resale, and thus the deposit paid by the defaulting purchaser at the first sale could have been used towards eliminating any such deficiency (see, Matter of Bertino v Kalmanash,
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