Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 708 - Mortgages and land contracts.
708.11 - Assignments of rents, leases and profits.

708.11 Assignments of rents, leases and profits.
(1) In this section, “assignment" means any assignment, pledge, transfer or any other conveyance of an interest in rents, leases or profits, whether contained in a mortgage, security agreement or other document executed by the assignor.
(2) When any debt or other obligation is secured by an assignment, the assignment shall be effective as to the assignor upon the execution and delivery of the assignment to the assignee. The assignment shall be perfected as to all subsequent purchasers, mortgagees, lien creditors, and all other 3rd parties for all purposes from the time and date of recording the assignment in the register of deeds office of the county in which the real property affected by the assignment is located. The assignment shall be governed by ch. 706 and shall be considered a conveyance for the purposes of ch. 706. An assignee who enforces an assignment in accordance with its terms shall not be considered to be a mortgagee in possession with attendant liability.
(3)
(a) Unless otherwise agreed upon in writing, the assignee shall be entitled to enforce the assignment without the necessity of any of the following:
1. Furnishing notice to the assignor or any lessee.
2. Obtaining possession of the real property.
3. Impounding the rents.
4. Securing the appointment of a receiver.
5. Taking any other affirmative action.
(b) Unless otherwise agreed upon in writing, the assignee may not exercise any right to collect rents or profits created under an assignment until the assignor is in default on the obligation to the assignee. Enforcement of the assignment shall not be considered a cure of an event of default not withstanding the collection of rents or profits in excess of any delinquent amounts due the assignee.
(4) Any tenant or lessee who, upon notice from an assignee, makes rent payments to the assignee in accordance with the terms of the assignment shall be given credit for the payment as if the payment had been made to the assignor, but nothing in this section shall affect the other rights and obligations of the assignor or the tenant or lessee as to one another.
(5) This section does not invalidate assignments of leases, rents or profits that were perfected by other means before May 9, 1996.
History: 1995 a. 283.
Enforcing Assignments of Leases, Rents and Profits. Leibsle. Wis. Law. May 1996.