MEMORANDUM DECISION
SUSAN V. KELLEY, Bankruptcy Judge.
The Trustee seeks to avoid a mortgage using the "strongarm" power of 11 U.S.C. § 544(a)(3). Under this provision, the trustee can exercise the rights and powers of a hypothetical bona fide purchaser of the debtor's real property on the filing date. In effect, § 544(a)(3) asks: Suppose the debtor, instead of filing bankruptcy, had transferred the same real property to a bona fide purchaser who...
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