TAMPA – While they are fighting for our nation overseas, some military personnel are losing their houses to foreclosure here at home.
In the thick of battle, in the heat of the fight, it’s the last thing a GI should have to worry about. While Coast Guardsman Keith Johnson was fighting for our country overseas, he was losing a battle here at home, for his home.
A battle, he claims, he had no idea was being waged until the moment he got back and spoke to his wife.
“It just boggled my mind. I got back and she said ‘the house is basically foreclosed’ and I was like ‘What do you mean?’” Johnson says.
At the same time, Johnson and his wife Alysia were negotiating with their lender, Wells Fargo, to modify the mortgage on their Clearwater home, the bank’s lawyers were foreclosing on the property, getting a summary judgment, and auctioning it off.
That happens fairly often. Banks negotiate loan modifications at the same time they move to foreclose. The difference here is that Johnson says no one ever informed him the bank was foreclosing.
If that’s true, it would be an apparent violation of a federal law specifically designed to protect active duty military personnel.
You can check out the rest here…
p.s. It appears attorney Matt Weidner has taken on the case.
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