I have no real idea where to start. Today my home was sold at auction without any notice to me.
Last fall, we were behind in our mortgage payment, and in order to save the home, we entered into a forbearance agreement and paid double our mortgage payment for a few months. In January our mortgage was sold to another company, American Home Mortgage Servicing. We received a letter from them telling us our first payment was due in March. We contacted both the new and old mortgage companies to confirm this information. The old company confirmed that we no longer owed them anything, and AHMSI told us our first payment was not due until March.
My husband called back on March 2 and was told our first payment to them was actually due March 21. He called them on the 20th, Friday, to make a payment, and was told the forbearance needed to be reworked with a different interest rate, and they would call us back with the new information and send us the papers to sign. They never did. At no time were we told that our house was in jeopardy, and we asked specifically about that. We received no letters or anything telling us this was going to happen.
Our home is actually currently on the market, and we had already accepted an offer. Our loan amount is under $400K. The offer we accepted is $735K. The house 2 doors down from us, same floor plan, but less upgrades and less property, just sold last month for $725K after less than 2 months on the market. Our house was sold at auction today for $575K and we were not warned AT ALL. We were shocked to come home today and find out from our realtor that our house has been sold out from under us.
We immediately called AHMSI, and they refuse to reverse this or work out anything-- and of course not: they have also let us know they get to keep the amount over our loan amount. They are using the confusion during the time of the loan changeover for their own gain, of between $150K and $200K!! My gosh, if we could even have THAT amount we could get a new home-- but as it is, we have lost everything. We have three children, two are very small (my girls are ages 15, 4, and 2) and we are now suddenly going to be homeless.
This mortgage company is completely unethical. What can we do? Do we have no recourse??
We listed this house, which is the house I grew up in, specifically so this would not happen. We were trying to sell it so we could move to a less expensive area. Now... I don't know what we will do. We have no down payment for a home now.
Trish
north tustin, California
U.S.A.