Your apartment can be seized and sold if you can't repay it, but it don't end your debt if auction price didn't match your debt. If you just leave it, and stop paying you most probably will end up with enourmous debt due to interests in couple of years from now...
right that is true, same in UK, my bro had a flat repoed in the 80s, I think he just walked away, well he got a huge bill years later.
Better you think of other options.