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| | Technical Advice Memorandum 200044004 - NMHC.org |
 | | Recourse liabilities are generally includible in basis because they represent a fixed, unconditional obligation to pay, with interest, a specific sum of money. |
 | | However, the mere fact that a note is recourse on its face is not determinative.5 For example, an obligation, whether recourse or nonrecourse, will not be treated as a true debt where payment, according to its terms, is too contingent, or repayment is otherwise unlikely. |
 | | In such situations, not only are the payments on a nonrecourse note usually fixed in amount, but the obligation to make the payments is not, by its terms, confined to the income produced, and the underlying property has a potential value apart from the income stream which it is expected to generate. |
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