Ohio AG Tags Outfit Allegedly Peddling Bogus Loan Modification Services With Civil Suit

From the Office of the Ohio Attorney General:

• Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine [] announced a lawsuit against N.M.M.S.R. Incorporated, doing business as Making Home Affordable USA, and its owner Jason Keating of Maumee. The lawsuit charges Keating and his business with multiple violations of Ohio’s consumer laws. 

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• Making Home Affordable USA is located at 120 10th Street in Toledo. It offers loan modification and foreclosure assistance services through its “National Mortgage Modification Stimulus Home Saver Program.” Although the business’ name and website closely resemble that of the federal government’s Making Home Affordable program, Making Home Affordable USA is not associated with the federal government.
  
  According to the Attorney General, the business instructed consumers to stop making their mortgage payments (even if they were current on their payments) and stated that banks and lenders would not negotiate unless consumers were behind on their payments.
  
  Consumers paid 60 to 65 percent of their current mortgage payment to the business after the business assured them that the funds would be held in escrow and submitted to their lenders once a modification was reached. Consumers’ lenders never received any of the funds placed into the accounts.

For more, see Attorney General DeWine Seeks Restitution for Consumers Harmed by Toledo Loan Modification Business.

For the lawsuit see State v. N.M.M.S.R. Incorporated, et ano.