I have written about this Orange County, California loan modification firm on a few occasions. The first time, one of the firms lawyers, Sean Rutledge was under investigation by the California Bar and FTC. He later surrendered his license under the weight of the pending investigations. Later, I posted a story on LoanSafe.org when the FBI raided their Irvine office. Yet, it looks like they are still very much in business.
Are these complaints just pissed off homeowners who got what they paid for and United Law Group did their job? After all the legal hoopla and press, it appears that legal authorities think they are operating legally or they would have been shut down by now. Hence, they are still allowed to offer loan modifications to struggling homeowners.
Here is an investigative news story that came out yesterday in Colorado;
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A couple said they spent more than $10,000 to save their house from foreclosure, but ended up losing their home and their money. Gene Steele helped build his 33,000 square foot house in Fremont County, a dream home for him and his wife. When the economy went south, they were unable to make their mortgage payments. They were contacted by attorneys from “United Law Group,” a California-based company that promised to help them get a better loan with a better interest rate.
“They needed paperwork, they needed bank statements, tax returns,” said Steele. “We got calls from them stating everything is going fine.”
But that was far from true, something Steele learned when he came home to find an eviction notice. He called the county assessors office.
”They said, ‘your house has been sold,’” said Steele. “Our attorneys never got in touch with us, we could never get a hold of them after that.”
Read more and watch the video from KRDO
My wife and I took the time off from work to drive down to ULG to find out about our case since they don’t answer any calls. I have alot of numbers for them and they are either not working, or the voicemail box is full. Doesn’t matter what time of the day I call no one ever answers the phone. The day we went we saw a young man there talking on his cell and my wife went up to ask him if he knew anything about the law firm. He said he used to work there and had been trying to get his paycheck that they owed him. He told us that the law firm had file bankruptcy and pretty much everybody quit. My wife almost fainted in the car from all the stress. The kid had told us that there was some other company in there that had nothing to do with law and that they were renting space. If anybody has any ideas of what we can do now please email us
Tony