"Something similar to a bank arguing that stopping you from burning down your house (diminishing the material value of the property) is not really tortuous interference with your property."
The problem is, that isn't a close analogy. Instead, in this instance, the bank was not "preventing us from damaging the property" the bank was "preventing us from making payments" that would remove their lien.
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