just discovered that my mother’s house is in foreclosure. Apparently a Notice of Default was filed last August but she did not tell me about it.
Now I have just Discovered that a notice of trustee’s sale was filed last week with a sale date of December 13.
Apparently my mother had been refinancing her house every year to get more money to live on.
They were charging her huge prepayment penalties and huge fees every time she refinanced.
She received very little money herself. The mortgage brokers made all of the money.
This last mortgage that my mother got had payments over twice as large as her income from social security and a small pension.
She has some equity left in the house. I need to stop the trustee’s sale and help her put her home on the market so that she can sell it and recover the little equity that she has left.
I also want to take legal action against the mortgage brokers for what they did to her and recover some of the equity that they stripped.
My mother and father bought this house new in 1957. My father passed away several years ago and left the house to my mother.
In the past 4 years these mortgage brokers have charged my mother over $200,000 in fees and prepayment penalties.
The interest rate they are charging my mother is almost 12%
There has been no change in my mother’s ability to pay. She is retired living on a small pension and social security for 20 years.
The monthly payments are over twice her income. The mortgage brokers knew this when they put her into the loan. They knew that she had no ability to repay this loan.
She kept refinancing to get the money to pay the mortgage payments since they were more than her income.
I do not have the money to make up the arrearages,
I want to stop the trustee’s sale long enough so that my mother can sell her house and recover what little equity she has left.
If what these mortgage brokers did to her is not illegal it should be.
What happened to our usury laws?
When I calculate the amount of fees and prepayment penalties against the paltry amount of cash my mother received, which was less than $50,000 total in all of the refinancings, the true interest rate and the cost of tthat paltry amount of money is obscene.
I am very sorry to hear about your mother.
Unfortunately our current laws are inadequate to deal with this problem. The mortage brokers know it and they have taken full advantage of that fact.
That will change in 2009.
I am currently working with a Democratic Candidate for Congress to unseat a worthless do nothing Republican.
We will win by a huge landslide. Democrats will take the Congress and Senate by huge margins and we will take the Presidency as well.
We will hold Congressional hearings on this problem in 2009 when we take over.
We will completely reshape the law regarding mortgage brokers and real estate brokers to a greater extent than even was done during the great depression of the 1930’s.
The corruption and incompetence in the real estate industry is a disgrace that has destroyed the lives of millions of families and has destroyed the integrity of our financial institutions.
The incompetence and the thievery of the real estate industry will be stopped.
Unfortunately that will be too late for your mother, and I am sorry.
However we will return this country to fairness for everyone, not just a few rich fat cats with more money than they know what to do with.