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  • Report:  #930674

Complaint Review: Fairlane Credit LLC - colorado springs Colorado

Reported By:
Annie - Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Submitted:
Updated:

Fairlane Credit LLC
9930 FEDERAL DR colorado springs, 80921 Colorado, United States of America
Phone:
(719) 278-0100
Web:
www.ford.com
Categories:
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     I was forced into a car with high interest and of bad repair after my divorce. I traded in my car that had blown the computer(according to the ford dealership) and I could either pay $3-4000 to repair it, or trade it in and get a ford focus at double the blue book value and 20% interest. I had no option. I was a single mother of a baby and I was not getting child support. The only reason I lost the car was because I did not get child support and I called to ask Fairlane to skip a payment so I would not lose my car. They told me to come up with the money. I told them I could not, I had nobody to help me, ny husband had cheated and I left, I left with nothing and had to fend for myself. I was to be paid the next day (at this point the next payment was a couple days past due) I called them to let them know I had rented enough apartments and would have comissions the next day so I could get caught up and pay even the next month then. The refused and told me if I hide the car they would throw me in jail for grand theft. I didnt know my legal rights(i was in my early 20's, alone and scared) so I left it out with the keys in the visor like they said. Losing my car made me lose everything, soon after I lost my job and everything I managed to salvage. A few years ago I get a garnishment letter from my bank, an attorney representing Fairlane had garnished my account and my daughter's savings. I could do nothing, but when my bank saw all I had at that point was child support and the attorney had to pay some of it back. This "attorney" claimed she had me served at an address I hadn't lived at for several years. I let her know I had not even been in that state since I moved back to Oregon and demanded a copy of the signature, she said she would send it and it never came and I never heard from them again...they amount then was around $20,000...for a $2000 debt! Today I got another letter from my bank stating a new attorney in my state (Oregon) has taken my case and there was a judgement from my court here for $31,857.91! I , again was not served any papers in regards to a court date, how they have a judgement from the court here is beyond me. I was also found disabled since they last attorney tried to ruin my life, I have very little income and my daughter's father is again, not paying child support. I am hardly scraping by and don't even have money to see a dentist, I cannot eat very many foods because my wisdom teeth are impacted, I have tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt because of the infections I keep getting because I cant afford to get my wisdom teeth out. I understand I lost my car, but I made honest effort to be in contact and pay my payments, they refused to let me pay, and I am pretty sure I understand why now. I see there are other reports of the same complaint. I am in awe that there arent laws to protect people like us from unethical agencies like this. I will never be able to own a house, or send my daughter to college like I planned when I was married and so happy to be having her. Now because of their practices I will never own a thing and more than likely lose the only thing I have, my car...and I live in an area without public transportation and too far away from necessary services like groceries. My doctors are all an hour away as well, so now I have to figure out how I am going to get treatment. There are no transport services that will get me there and I have no family here that can drive me to my appointments. I am scared and I don't know where to turn. Has anyone dealt with this or know what I can do? Do I have any rights at all? Thanks for seeing this.


1 Updates & Rebuttals

Ashley

springfield,
Missouri,
U.S.A.
It is very likely

#2Consumer Comment

Wed, August 22, 2012

that you do owe this money. When a car is repossessed it is sold at an auto auction. The amount they sell it for is deducted from the total amount you own on the loan. Not just the principal, but the interest too. You still owe the bank that remaining balance. if you don't pay it, they will get a judgement on you. You say that it was several years ago this happened, and that you had moved. This is why you were served at an old address, its the last address they had on file. That doesn't make it any less legal. You had to have recieved notification at some point that you would owe money after the reposession.

Now what happens next is that you will be sued and get a judgement placed on you. That judgement will have interest attached to it so your balance will grow annually. Every year that you do not pay this off, the higher the amount owed will go. Your best bet would be to declare bankruptcy from the sound of your situation. With you on disability with child support, they ralistically can't go after your wages but this debt will never go away until you pay it or you get it discharged through bankruptcy.

As for the rest of the bad things in your life, aren't you stretching things a bit much to blame everything from your inability to get your teeth taken care of to your daughter going to college on a car repossession? You clearly have some other issues in your life, but they weren't caused by a car repossession.

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