Do you think a lawyer would take this case?
a) My mortgage company offered to do the Obama modification program.
b) They filled out an app and said I was pre-approved
c) the guidelines state that until I get the final approval foreclosure proceedings stop. I qualify for all the guidelines – income, home value depreciating (for example the mortgage is higher than the value so it’s almost like I’m doing them a favor to stay otherwise they wouldn’t approve it)
d) they NEVER sent me paperwork about it even though I have recorded phone conversations telling me they would, telling me I was pre-approved, recorded conversations of them taking my app and everything.
e) They never told me my new payment amount, just that I should wait for my info to be underwritten
f) next thing I know I get a letter from an investor saying since my home is in foreclosure would I like to speak to him about it
g) I call them up saying wtf, am I really in foreclosure, and the 3rd person I speak to finally admits that I am and 10 days later sends me the notice. Supposedly I missed the first modification payment which they never informed me of and which is almost 1,000 higher than my current payment which doesn’t make sense.
h) they are ignoring all my attempts to work something out. They totally mislead me, lied to me and I filed a complaint with the treasury they’re not giving me a copy of the lender’s response but one of the lady’s on the phone secretly told me that part of their response states that they have no documentations on their end to dispute my claims – ex. they didn’t save the recorded calls they say are recorded. They have no paper showing me that I had any payment due – I had no idea about it until they put me in foreclosure and verbally told me on the phone I had missed an imaginary payment.
My sale date was supposed to be 2 weeks ago, I postponed it for a few weeks more. I wouldn’t mind going to the same exact terms before this hoopla started. NOw I owe tens of thousands to catch up in the course of 8 months. My 30 year fixed loan was FIXED at the time I signed it and without me seeing any paperwork or agreeing to anything they have ‘modified" it to 0 more/month. It is such a joke I am losing sleep getting very ill over all this. They are a very large bank so I don’t know if it’ll be a lost cause fighting them. I feel taken advantage of, my perfect credit now has a foreclosure on it, all my equity is going away, I had remodeled the whole place brand new condition last year. I am so upset I can’t believe this is happening it’s like a bad dream. I wish i never watched those commercials Obama was on non-stop saying to apply for a modification to lower your payments. I believed in it, got suckered in and now they are taking my house away through shady dealings I have all on tape from my conversations.
I can only afford ,000 in legal fees at the most – do you think any lawyer would give any good result and put time in for that much? Do you think I even have a case? I don’t want to roll over and give up if I have a chance. I can’t believe this is happening and I think the treasury department are bought off and in the pockets of this bank from my dealings with them over the past several months (I am convinced of this).