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No. If you cosign on a car loan and the person defaults, the finance company can not take your house in this state. After the finance company seizes the car, both you and the other person would still owe the unpaid balance of the loan.

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Q: If you Co-sign auto loan and the person defaults on the loan- can the finance company take your house?
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