shall constitute the Court's Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law.

UNDISPUTED FACTS
First Minnesota Savings Bank fsb (the "first mortgagee") held a first mortgage on debtor's homestead. The homestead was also encumbered by a second mortgage in favor of ITT. Debtor defaulted on the first mortgage. The first mortgagee foreclosed, obtained the sheriff's Certificate of Sale following the foreclosure sale, and timely recorded the same. On the last day of her redemption period, debtor filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. ITT, without *459 knowledge that debtor had filed her petition, subsequently took the necessary steps to redeem the mortgaged property from the first mortgagee. ITT acknowledges that the redemption was invalid due to the extension of debtor's redemption period provided for bypurchase price plus interest. The mortgagor, on the other hand, retains only the equity of redemption, plus the rights to possession, rents, and profits of the property during the period of redemption. Accordingly, it is only the right of redemption, rather than the property itself, which passes into the bankruptcy estate if the redemption period has not expired at the time of the bankruptcy petition is filed.
Johnson v. First National Bank, 719 F.2d 270, 276 (8th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1012, 104 S.Ct. 1015, 79 L.Ed.2d 245 (1984). Consequently, ITT's commencement of its unlawful detainer action was not an act to obtain property of the estate.
Debtor relies on the holding in the Mercer case to support her contention that the stay applied to commencement of ITT's unlawful