Two South Florida Homeowners Targeted By "Home Rescue" Companies

A July 2006 media report describes the plight of two financially strapped Florida homeowners who got involved with foreclosure rescue companies.

The article also reports that, according to court records, one rescue company "has taken the titles to more than 100 homes in Miami-Dade County nearing foreclosure", and that the company has "sought to evict more than a dozen people, in some cases less than a year after they deeded their property to his company. They were all facing foreclosure."

Jeffrey Hearne, an attorney with Legal Services Of Greater Miami, Inc., commented that about two people a week appear at his office facing eviction after doing business with "one of possibly hundreds of home-saver investors operating in Miami-Dade and Broward counties".

Another attorney, who has filed at least three foreclosure rescue complaints recently, comments that those most fiercely targeted are "older people, single women and minorities" who are "bombarded by mailings, phone calls and visits often before realizing a lender is moving to foreclose on them".

To read more on this story, see article captioned Homeowners Needing Aid Snared by Schemes (after clicking link, scroll down to the fourth article from the top of page.

Note:

For eligible residents of Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties looking for low cost legal services, a good place to start your search is Legal Services Of Greater Miami, Inc., a non-profit law firm representing the lower-income and elderly.

Residents throughout Florida can begin their search here and/or here.

Consumer protection attorneys who are members of the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) who are located in Florida are listed here.

(revised 1-25-07)