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  • Report:  #1109542

Complaint Review: Home Defense Law Group - orlando Florida

Reported By:
M**** family - Saint Cloud, Florida,
Submitted:
Updated:

Home Defense Law Group
7751 Kingspointe parkway #110 orlando, 32819 Florida, USA
Phone:
407-378-4545
Web:
www.homedefenselawgroup.com
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 Para mediados del año 2012 teníamos ciertos gastos misceláneos que nos sacaban del “Budget”.  Ejemplo; gastos universidad de nuestra hija,  auto, gastos médicos, entre otros.  Además, teníamos un % de interés alto en nuestra hipoteca y se oía mucha promoción sobre HARP, nuevo programa de modificación de Obama, el cual ayudaba a personas con los pagos al día.  Por lo cual mi esposo y yo comenzamos a pedir precualificaciones para el refinanciamiento de nuestra hipoteca. 

Luego de obtener dos precualificaciones de banco, muy buenas, oímos el anuncio radial de Home Defense Law Group donde dice: “te ayudamos no importa estés al día o no en tus pagos” y  de John Mussa que dice “HDLG te dará paz mental”.  Decidimos ir a orientarnos.

Fuimos a orientación en octubre 2012, HDLG  dijo que sí podían ayudarnos, que teníamos un buen caso, “todos teníamos derecho no importa los ingresos”, por que las casas habían bajado de valor y los prestamos eran altos. Dijeron que eran los mejores negociadores y podian conseguir bajar el pago, bajar el interés y no pagar gastos de cierre.  Muy bueno, como dicen para ser cierto, pero tienen una amabilidad al principio que te derrites y le crees. Nos convencieron y firmamos contrato.  En todo momento en la orientación y durante el proceso le hicimos saber a HDLG que:

  1. ambos teníamos crédito excelente, que NO queriamos se nos afectara el crédito  .
  2. no queriamos subir los años de préstamo a más de 30 años.
  3. que queriamos bajar algo nuestro pago mensual y el interés.
  4. que no íbamos de dejar de pagar el mortgage, a lo cual estuvieron claros, porque de lo contrario tenían que cobrar otros honorarios.

Se acordó hacer el pago en tres plazos, el 1er pago al momento y los otros 2 por mes. Desde ese momento empezaron a fallar, porque en el 2do pago lo cobraron todo, cobraron noviembre y diciembre en el mes de noviembre; todo sin decirnos nada y su escusa fue falla del sistema de cobro.

Luego de e-mails enviados a HDLG  sin ninguna contestación, la Sra. Carmen de la Torre en llamada telefónica nos solicita que para lograr una buena modificación  no pagaramos el mortgage dos meses. Le insistimos que no queríamos hacer eso por el peligro de dañar el crédito,  pero ella insistió y ya habían cobrado sus honorarios completos yyy se supone ellos sabían lo que hacían.  El peor error de nuestras vidas fue haberle hecho caso y confiar en esa mujer.  

Durante el proceso lo único que hizo fue pedir los mismos documentos: prueba de ingresos, bank statement, y utility bills. Ella no pedía evidencias de los pagos misceláneos que nos hacían salir del “Budget”. ¿Cómo entonces ella podía demostrar al lender la situación económica  por los gastos extras que teníamos en ese momento?

En una ocasión, tuvimos que ir en persona para asegurarnos la Sra. De la Torre llamara a nuestro lender para que nos enviaran la forma 1098, ante las gestiones infructuosas que hicimos directamente con el lender. Ellos nos decía que no podían hablar con nosotros, que nuestros abogados tenían que pedirla.  ¿Cómo, que no podíamos solicitar esta forma  que es para llenar los taxes y solicitar las becas de nuestra hija? En ese momento supimos que HDLG  te hace firmar una hoja, que no te explican que es para que no puedas en lo absoluto hablar con tu lender.  De la Torre sólo hizo  gestión de llamar y darnos  un pedazo de papel de libreta con la información para llenar los taxes, y ahí quedó. Saben que, después del tiempo, nuestro lender nos dijo que todo documento que ellos nos enviaban a la dirección de HDLG, HDLG NO la recibían porque no había quien lo firmara como recibido, incluyendo la 1098. Dejamos de recibir cartas con información importante relacionada a taxes, a “flood insurance” que luego nos causaron muchos problemas, por cuenta de HDLG no haberla recibido y haberla entregado a nosotros.

Se imaginan cuando empezaron a llegar cartas con la palabra FORECLOSURE, mi esposo fue en persona, sin cita y el Sr. Matos dice, que no nos preocuparamos, que era normal, parte del proceso.  Si de algo, o lo único que tienen HDLG es amabilidad, que te deja atónito.  Mi esposo le comentó, sobre la falta de profesionalismo de la Sra. De la Torre, y al día siguiente ella llama para decirnos: “Sr. Morales usted se desesperó  ayer viniendo a las oficinas y sabe que, la desesperación es sinónimo de fracaso”.  ¿Que se puede interpretar con esto?

Continuabamos enviando E-mails pidiendo contestación a preguntas. Les recalcábamos en los e-mails, no queríamos subieran los años.  Llamamos en muchas ocasiones, sonaba y sonaba   y no contestaban el teléfono para nada (claro, veían nuestros números de célular y las pobres recepcionistas no sabían que hacer). Hicimos un prueba: una compañera  llamó al mismo tiempo como nueva cliente desde su celular y sí le contestaron. Viendo HDLG en su caller ID un numero de tel. diferente/nuevo lo contestan inmediatamente por si es una nueva víctima.

Miren la falta de profesionalismo por parte de la Sra. De la Torre, que le envíabamos documentos solicitados por ella por e-mail y, siempre le pedíamos muy amablemente nos dejara saber si los recibió, solo eso.  Nunca nos contestaba y cuando ya cansados de llamar y preguntar por e-mail si los recibió, ella mandaba a la recepcionista a indicarnos que no los había recibido.  Helloooo, con que documentos ella estaba trabajando?  O,  ¿cómo le daba seguimiento?.

Nos  gustaría saber hasta qué punto HDLG tenía el derecho, privilegio, o legalidad de solicitar a una tercera entidad un préstamo a nuestro nombre, sin previo aviso de nuestra parte. Según el contrato firmado no creemos hable o se mencione sobre este particular.

Luego de meses pasados, y sólo oyendo (muy pocas veces)  de Sra. De La Torre: “el caso está en proceso”, el 17 de mayo, en reunión me explica sobre el proceso final “Trial Period” de hacer tres pagos por la misma y exacta cantidad por tres meses consecutivos. Me indico que tenía que firmar la aplicación “Uniform Borrower Assistance Form”, forma que estaba en blanco. Le reclamé y ella en tono molesto dijo que estaba en su computadora llena, pero no me la permitió ver.  La firmé, porque me iba a dar copia. Cuando en casa me percato, la copia que me dio estaba en blanco.  Tan pronto como pude me cominiqué con la Sra. Isabel Pael, Office Manager, para exigirle le ordenara a la Sra. De la Torre nos enviara copia  de la forma que firmé y que nos diga si recibe o no los documentos. Todavía estamos esperando esa copia.

En Agosto 2013, nos llaman para firmar la modificacion;  para sorpresa  40 AñOS,  con unos término de pagos rídiculos que hasta un niño sabría que sumando y restando esto no le conviene. Y con la anotación: tu credito de affectaría si firmas la modificacón.

Cuando exigimos a HDLG terminara con el proceso y nos enviara el  “reinstatement letter”   para volver a los términos originales del préstamo, por equivocación el Sr. Matos nos envía carta que HDLG le habían enviado previamente  a nuestro lender como que ya no son nuestros abogados. ¿Como?, cobraron su dinero, no hicieron su trabajo y ni siguiera tuvieron el respeto de decirnos.  A lo cual el Sr. Matos nos dice por teléfono que cometió el error de NO darnos a firmar el “conclusion contract” y nos dice que cuando la modificación baja ellos cierran el caso.  Al día de hoy no hemos recibido el “conclusion contract”.

Por falta de profesionalismo, comunicación y sensibilidad de estas personas de HDLG tuvimos que pagar sobre $10,000 al lender para evitar perder nuestra casa, mas perdimos 1,895.00  pagado a HDLG,  solo por darnos problemas, disgustos, hacernos perder tiempo y dañarnos el crédito.

HDLG nos daño el crédito, es lo mas que nos duele.  Estamos luchando con las tres compañías de crédito, EQUIFAX, TRANSUNION Y EXPERIAN, para poder arreglar este asunto. Estamos seguros que hay muchos más clientes que pasaron por lo mismo o lo están pasando actualmente.  Pasen la voz.  No crean en el anuncio de radio; donde John Musa decía “HDLG te dará paz mental”  él no sabe que lo que le puede dar al cliente es un derrame cerebral con tantos problemas.

 

By mid -2012 we had certain miscellaneous expenses that drew us to the "Budget" . Example , our daughter's college expenses , auto, medical expenses, among others. In addition , we had a high % interest in our mortgage and a lot of promotion on HARP , new Obama modification program , which helped people with daily payments could be heard. Therefore my husband and I began to ask precualificaciones to refinance our mortgage.

After obtaining two precualificaciones bank , very good, heard the radio ad for Home Defense Law Group where he says : "I do not mind helping you up to date on your payments or not " and John Mussa says " HDLG will give peace of mind" . We decided to get our bearings.

Went to orientation in October 2012, we said yes HDLG could help us, we had a good case, " all had right no matter the income," that the houses had fallen in value and the loans were high. They said they were the best negotiators and could get lower payments , lower interest and pay no closing costs. Very good , as they say to be true, but they have a kindness at first that you melt and you believe him . We convinced and signed contract. At all times in the direction and in the process we made HDLG know that :

both had excellent credit, we did not want it to affect us credit .

years did not want to raise loan over 30 years.

we wanted something lower our monthly payment and interest.

that not going to stop paying the mortgage , to which were clear , because otherwise had to charge other fees.

It was agreed to make the payment in three installments , the 1st payment at the time and the other 2 per month . From that moment began to fail , because the 2nd payment is charged all charged in November and December November , all without saying anything and his excuse was system failure recovery .

After e- mails sent to HDLG no reply , Ms. Carmen de la Torre on phone call asking us to get a good mortgage modification fail to pay the two months. We urge you not to want to do that because of the danger of damaging the credit , but she insisted and had already paid their full fee yyy is assumed they knew what they were doing. The biggest mistake of our lives was have listened and trust that woman.

During all I did was ask for the same documents : proof of income, bank statement and utility bills . She did not ask for evidence of miscellaneous payments made ​​us leave the "Budget" . How then could she show the lender the economic situation for the extra expenses we had at that time?

On one occasion , we had to go in person to make sure Ms. De la Torre called our lender sent us to 1098 , to the fruitless efforts we made directly with the lender . They told us we could not talk to us, our attorneys had to ask. How, we could not apply this way is to fill taxes and apply for grants of our daughter ? At that point we knew we HDLG makes you sign a sheet , you do not explain it so you can not talk at all with your lender . De la Torre was managing a call and give us a piece of notebook paper with information for filing taxes , and there I was . They know that after time, our lender told us that any document they sent us in the direction of HDLG , HDLG NOT received because there was no one signed him as received , including 1098. We stopped receiving letters with important information related to taxes , to " flood insurance" which then caused us many problems, not having realized HDLG having received and delivered to us .

Imagine when they began to get letters with the word FORECLOSURE , my husband was in person without an appointment and Mr. Matos says , not to worry , that it was normal , part of the process . If something, or they just have HDLG is kindness , that leaves you stunned. My husband commented on the lack of professionalism of Ms. De la Torre, and the next day she called to tell us , "Mr. Morales despaired you coming to the office yesterday and know that despair is synonymous with failure. " What can we interpret this?

We continued sending e -mails asking to answer questions. Les we emphasized in the e- mails did not want to go up year. Often called , rang and rang and did not answer the phone at all (of course, saw our cell numbers and poor receptionists who do not know ) . We did a test : a companion drew the same time as a new client from his cell phone and he answered yes . Displaying HDLG on your caller ID a number of tel . different / new the answer immediately if a new victim.

Look at the lack of professionalism by Ms. De la Torre , who requested we sent for her by e- mail and documents , whenever we asked very kindly let us know if you received them , just that. We never answered and when I tired to call and ask if the e-mail received , sent her to tell the receptionist that he had not received . Helloooo , that she was working papers ? Or , how you followed up ? .

We want to know how HDLG had the right , privilege, or legality of asking a third party for a loan on our behalf , without notice from us. According to the signed contract or not we talk about this particular mention .

After months old, and only heard ( rarely ) Ms. De La Torre : " the case is in process," May 17 , at a meeting I explained about the final process "Trial Period" making three payments the exact same amount for three consecutive months . I indicated that I had to sign the " Uniform Borrower Assistance Form " application form was blank. I complained and she said in an annoyed tone in his computer was full, but not allowed to see me . I signed it because I was going to give back . When at home I realize , the copy he gave me was blank. As soon as I could she communicates with Ms. Isabel Pael , Office Manager , to require him to order Ms. De la Torre sent us a copy of the form I signed and to tell us whether or not you receive the documents. Still waiting for that copy.

In August 2013 , we are called to sign the amendment , to the surprise 40 YEARS , with payment term flouted that even a child would know that adding and subtracting this does not suit you . And with the note: your credit for if you sign the modificacón affectaría .

When we demand HDLG finished with the process and send us the " reinstatement letter " to return to the original terms of the loan, Mr. Matos inadvertently sent us a letter that he had previously sent HDLG our lender as they are no longer our lawyers . How? , Took their money , they did their job and did not even tell us respect . To which Mr. Matos tells us over the phone that made ​​the mistake of giving us NOT to sign the " finding contract" and tells us that when they close down the case modification . To date we have not received the " finding contract" .

For lack of professionalism , communication and sensitivity of these people HDLG we had to pay over $ 10,000 a lender to avoid losing our home , but we lost 1,895.00 we paid HDLG , just give us problems , dislikes, wasting our time and harm us credit.

HDLG harm us credit , but that is what hurts us . We are fighting with the three credit companies, Equifax , TransUnion and Experian , to solve this issue. We are sure there are many more customers who went through the same thing or are currently going through. Spread the word . Do not believe the radio ad , where John Musa said " HDLG give you peace of mind" that he does not know what he can give the customer a stroke with so many problems .



2 Updates & Rebuttals

not for now

Saint Cloud,
Florida,
The prior traduction in English was done automated by Ripoff. Now, I tried the best to translate it and it is a summary of it.

#2Author of original report

Mon, March 03, 2014

 

HDLG promotion is not accurate, promising deceitful things, they do not perform the job correctly. They don't negotiate.

2012 -We had additional expenses to the common ones. High % interest mortgage. Sept. we had  good bank prequalifications. We went to orientation in Oct. 2012. Silvia Aquino said can help us, because the houses had fallen in value and the loans were high. They told us could get lower payments, lower interest rate and pay no closing costs. We let them know that: 1-We have EXCELLENT credit, we don't want it to be affected. 2-We want to lower our monthly payment and intrest.3-No more than 30 years. 4-We not going to stop paying the mortg-age, to which were clear, because otherwise they had to charge other fees.

They agreed to charge $1,895.00 in 3 installments, but they charged in 2 payments instead of 3. They said it was system failure recovery.

Nov. 10, Carmen de la Torre called to request documents and ask us to do not pay 2 months mortgage payment. She insisted. We didn't pay November.  Then we paid January and February. March was not paid.Biggest mistake, follow her instructions.

Why does she ask for the same documents all the time?  Proof of income, bank statements and utility bills. Why she doesn't ask for the evidence of miscellaneous expenses that made us leave the budget? How then could she show the lender our economic situation by the extra expenses we had at that time?

When we needed the form 1098 to fill taxes, we called Seterus to request it. They said we could not talk with them because of the Cease and Desist letter; our attorneys had to ask for it. We called de la Torres many times, she did nothing. Hector had to go in person,she called Seterus and gave to Hector a piece of paper with the $ inf. for filling taxes. Nov. 8, Jesenia Rivera (Seterus rep.) told me that they sent all our letters to the HDLG address but HDLG sent it back because no one wanted to sign as received, even she told me Form 1098 was sent in 1/7/13 to HDLG.

In April we received a denied letter for refinance from Quicken Loans. Application we never submitted. after we finished with HDLG, we called Quicken to get information about interest rates,Brian Hejka, told us, HECTOR SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION, no long ago. Then we realized that about the denied letter that we received was HDLG fault. Is it legal, that HDLG submitted an application with a third party in our names?

May we started receiving Foreclosure letters. Can you imagine? We never, ever pay late.Hector went to HDLG, and Matos says: "not worry, it is normal". Hector told to Mr. Matos about the lack of professionalism of Mrs. de la Torre, and the next day she called to tell us: "Mr. Morales you came yesterday despaired, and you know that despair is synonymous of failure"

May:- Trial Period received - Anabell met with Mrs. De la Torre.  She asked to Anabell to sign "Uniform Borrower Assistance Form" that was in blank. I complained, she said had it in the computer completely filled, but she does not allow me to see it.I signed it because she would go to give me the application filled. At home, I realized the copy was blank, I called Mrs.Paez, Office Manager, to require they send me the form that I signed fully filled and signed. We still wait for the copy yet.

August: Modification arrived - paying lot money in interest, with a clause "Your credit score may be affected by accepting a modification". 40 years -

We didn't accept it and we demanded HDLG to requesting to Seterus the reinstatement letter, to return to the original terms of the loan.He accidentally sent us the "conclusion contract" and he said made the mistake of, not  giving us  to sign the conclusion contract and tells us that when the modification arrives, they close the case, no matter we agree or not. To date we have not received the conclusion, we haven't signed anything.

For lack of professionalism , communication and sensitivity of these people we had to pay over $ 10,000 a lender to avoid losing our home , and we lost 1,895.00 paid to HDLG , just to give us problems , dislikes, wasting our time, and to harm our credit 


justmythoughts

Alabama,
what??

#3General Comment

Tue, December 24, 2013

Okay, i speak english only, and when i read through the english part of your story, i could not understand most of what you were saying, or the point you were trying to get across. Its good that you are tyring to warn people about scam companies, but have no clue as to what exactly that message is

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