1. The sale must be conducted in the county in which the condominium hotel or part of it is situated, and may be conducted by the association or hotel unit owner, as applicable, its agent or attorney, or a title insurance company or escrow agent licensed to do business in this State, except that the sale may be made at the office of the association or hotel unit owner, as applicable, if the notice of the sale so provided. The association or hotel unit owner, as applicable, may, from time to time, postpone the sale by such advertisement and notice as it considers reasonable or, without further advertisement or notice, by proclamation made to the persons assembled at the time and place previously set and advertised for the sale.
2. On the day of sale originally advertised or to which the sale is postponed, at the time and place specified in the notice or postponement, the person conducting the sale may sell the residential unit at public auction to the highest cash bidder. Unless otherwise provided in the declaration or by agreement, the association or hotel unit owner may purchase the residential unit and hold, lease, mortgage or convey it. The association or hotel unit owner, as applicable, may purchase by a credit bid up to the amount of the unpaid assessments and any permitted costs, fees and expenses incident to the enforcement of its lien.
3. After the sale, the person conducting the sale shall:
(a) Make, execute and, after payment is made, deliver to the purchaser, or his or her successor or assign, a deed without warranty which conveys to the grantee all title of the residential unit owner to the unit;
(b) Deliver a copy of the deed to the Ombudsman within 30 days after the deed is delivered to the purchaser, or his or her successor or assign; and
(c) Apply the proceeds of the sale for the following purposes in the following order:
(1) The reasonable expenses of sale;
(2) The reasonable expenses of securing possession before sale, holding, maintaining, and preparing the residential unit for sale, including payment of taxes and other governmental charges, premiums on hazard and liability insurance, and, to the extent provided for by the declaration, reasonable attorney’s fees and other legal expenses incurred by the association or the hotel unit owner, as applicable;
(3) Satisfaction of the association’s or hotel unit owner’s lien, as applicable;
(4) Satisfaction in the order of priority of any subordinate claim of record; and
(5) Remittance of any excess to the unit’s owner.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 2242)