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Flagstar isn't helping me

June 02, 2010

Started with a search on Lendingtree to see what we needed to be approved to buy the house we were renting when owner's put it up for sale. That house would not appraise for loan (according to Flagstar loan officer) so we began search for house since were were pre-approved by lender. Our FHA loan is with Flagstar Bank FSB, and it is over 2 years in arrears. We worked with Home Ownership Center of Greater Cincinnati, through Hope Now program, and a volunteer attorney through legal aid, for over a year and half attempting to get a loan modification. No response from lender. Flagstar took our house to sheriff sale almost a year ago, June 23, 2009,. stating we had not made any payments at all, when we had, and a predatory lending complaint that I filed through Ohio Attorney General's Office got some assistance from OAG (for a very short period) and they contacted Flagstar and got them to cancel/postpone the sheriff sale. Flagstar then offered us a forbearance plan that would not lower the payment, and we did not accept the forbearance plan they offered due to unemployment lay-offs and current lower income.
Husband has been laid off (carpenter) 8 months of 2009 and working 3 months of 2010 and is currently waiting word if work is available soon or if he is laid off again until more work is available. (laid off for one month & just returned to work last week & hopefully work will be available & continue.) Also filed complaint with Office of Thrift Supervision in Washington, D.C. and lender denies predatory lending charges. Examples of predatory issues in the set up of loan: Flagstar approved as an FHA loan within 2 years of bankruptcy. Added Ameridream down payment 'gift' back into loan and paid it back to sellers at closing, & the added on amount made payment higher. Flagstar sent a letter, forwarded through change of address, two weeks after closing stating we were denied loan and reasons listed why denied, included bankruptcy and debt to income ratio, etc... We have never seen or received copy of appraisal, were told at closing it was being sent to us but have never gotten. Recently faxed in & re-requested copy of appraisal and it still has not been sent to us....
Flagstar approved us for 20,000 more on another property, but we were outbid and found this house as a for sale by owner and we were re-approved for this house at 132,500. (appraised at 133,000) we were told house was 'stick built', but it is actually an 'up-graded' modular home.... Comparable house right next door sold last summer (not foreclosure) for 50,000 less than we were told our house appraised at for loan purposes... Flagstar included 800/month overtime income to approve loan, based on what my husband had earned the year before. When overtime was not available, actually short weeks in winter, got behind on payment. (Can't afford high payment without overtime income.) Closing date--Dec. 14, 2008.
Now waiting for when lender takes house back to sheriff sale. Legal aid says once we get a case number to bring loan paperwork to them for review of the predatory issues within the set up of the loan. Lender recently sent us paperwork (again) to send in our current income info. For possible loan modification. We have sent this same information repeatedly since we were first months behind on payment. Still no loan modification offer made. Also approved (twice) for up to $5000 from state of Ohio for help with loan modification, but since no offer was made, approval has expired twice.
We have done and followed every step of the 'help' programs no help from the Flagstar. We cannot afford to file chapter 13 because the repayment plan is too highon 40 hour paychecks (took $2/hr. pay cut to get back to work, and he then laid off again also) We are more than 2 years behind on the payments. We cannot lose our home. We have a 12 yr. old and 15 yr. old that already lost their home (of 5 years) to greedy Ameriquest & later received a measly $700 settlement from them over the predatory issues in the loan on the house they foreclosed on/ took away when we got behind after layoffs back then. (Chapter 7 bankruptcy, April 2006) But if we are not correct in the predatory set up of our loan, why have they not taken it back to sheriff sale - especially this long after canceling sheriff sale almost a year ago? Please advise.

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Posted By Miranda at 10:08 AM
Comments (9) | Categories: Loan Modification, Sheriffs Sale, Bankruptcy, Forbearance, Flagstar, FHA, Ohio Foreclosure | Tags: flagstar bank ohio

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Comments

PLEASE CONTACT ME I HAVE INFORMATION ON THE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST FLAGSTAR.
Posted By KELLY KOVACIC on April 03, 2011 at 05:03 PM
we are going through the same thing here. massive paperwork and no loan modification.
Posted By Jere Douglas on May 06, 2011 at 05:13 PM
flagstars loan modification is a scam and should be investicated
Posted By sandy kozlowski on May 21, 2011 at 10:34 PM
Flagstar is a lier!!!
Posted By Mark Velazquez on June 01, 2011 at 10:51 AM
Wow, this is hideous also. We are having the same type problems here with Flagstar.
Posted By Jere Douglas on June 01, 2011 at 10:31 PM
flagstar bank gives people the run around. they say they can help but they dont they also lie to customers and when u try to get a hold of them they are not receiving calls they need to do something about the bank and help the customers. there should be a law suit against them for giving false inof to customers.
Posted By sue on July 27, 2011 at 04:45 PM
I thought Ameriquest was jacked up, but Flagstar makes them look like girl scouts. I've emailed them 5-6 times with no response. They absorbed taxes I was late on (which is understandable), but it doubled my payment from $625.40 to $1280.36. I'm scraping and borrowing , and still getting behind. I thought they said it would go down after the taxes were absorbed. I'm trying to get confirmation on that and when it will. I'm trying to re-finance, but my credit score kept me from one company. I consolidated all my debt into a easy payment. But it makes my score pitiful. Can someone guide me to a re-finance system that can get me away from flagstar?
Posted By Billy Kirkpatrick on November 14, 2011 at 06:35 PM
We wrer on the loan modification program with Flagstar Bank and they sent a letter saying that we need to pay the lesser amount until the process was done,so I been paying the amount that they told us to pay and we got a letter in the mail that we did'nt qualify for the loan modification.We got a letter in the mail not even a week later and we are now in foeclosure.And we are only a month behind on our mortgage.What are we suppose to do now!
Posted By Alicia on February 02, 2012 at 03:03 PM
I've been going through a similar experience with Flagstar for the past year. My spouse and I divorced in 2009 and I could no longer make the $2000 a month payments on my home with one income. I hired a realtor and we put the place on the market. The cute lil house was sure to sell in no time. We had an offer on the place within a few months. However, Flagstar dragged their feet and after months of no word on the offer acceptance, the buyer left. Again, a few weeks later we found another interested buyer who has patiently hung on for 6 months with no word from Flagstar on the offer we presented. In this market, there was no way the bank could expect to get the full loan amount in an offer, so when the offer came in at 55% below I wasn't surprised when they dragged their feet. However, it surprised me that they would be unwilling to take something versus nothing for a house. Then there's all of Flagstar's rules about short sales. I have to be living in the house. I have to stop making payments on the house to prove I need to be considered for a short sale. All of this I tried to do, despite my own personal ethics and distress about falling behind on my payments. Despite playing it their way, they seem hell bent on just foreclosing and taking the house instead of accepting a reasonable market offer on this house. It boggles the mind. I'm beginning to wonder if they make more money on these bail out programs by not helping their customers and instead screwing our credit and forcing us into foreclosure. If that's the case, all hail the 99% and let's do this class action law suit. I will not tolerate another day being at the mercy and control of this or any other bank.
Posted By Candace on February 09, 2012 at 01:51 PM

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