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  • Report:  #1471414

Complaint Review: synergy law -

Reported By:
eric - newberg, oregon, United States
Submitted:
Updated:

synergy law
United States
Web:
http://synergylawllc.com/
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I have every email and reports, communications. They took my money and I am losing my house anyway. I stopped paying them. They had me try to file bankruptcy at the last minute knowing i could not make it to the courthouse in enough time for the auction. my car was towed in downtown portland, was late to the courthouse, i assume on purpose.

horrible experience the whole way through my time with them. And after all that they didn't do a god d**n thing to save my house-- so pissed, really wish there was a to recoup my investment in them or my house or maybe there is a class action going on somewhere!!



5 Updates & Rebuttals

Jim

Beverly Hills,
California,
United States
How About Taking Some Responsibility?

#2Consumer Comment

Tue, January 22, 2019

You don't explain why you needed a lawyer to save your home, except the only reason you would need a firm like this is to obtain either a loan modification, or to renegotaie a completely separate mortgage - because you were in default on your mortgage.  The reason why you're in default is sort of irrelevant.  The idea I couldn't possibly know what's happening is absurd; the fact you went to this firm in the first place spells out exactly what your situation was.

In this process, you managed to blame everyone else for what happened except yourself.  I mean let's review:

 

  • You got behind on your mortgage - perhaps that was your fault, or maybe it wasn't.  Either way, you were in default.
  • You blame the law firm because they weren't successful in bailing you out of your situation - except there was no guarantee they could
  • You had your car towed the day they were to auction your house off - and you attempted to blame someone else?  That is your fault.
  • You were then late to the court - and blamed your situation on your car being towed.  If you were late, then that was your fault.
  • You blame this website then, for having the public question your credibility.

This website is a great believer in the 1st Amendment, which means your voice is allowed volume regarding your rip off situation.  But you are not immune from a rebuttal from the company you're complaining about, or the public in general (me being the latter) from criticism when you fail to take any responsibility.  You operated under the assumption the law firm is supposed to save your home.  I am sure that is their objective with every client they take on.  However, lawyers in general do not and can not guarantee success in meeting their objective.  That is where your disconnect with reality lies.  I probably would not have commented to try and bring you back to reality had you accepted some amount of responsibility in this situation.

This website publishes EVERY complaint, valid or not.  This website publishes every rebuttal, valid or not.  Never for a minute think a website that believes in the 1st Amendment would censor someone's speech.

Best of luck to you...


eric

newberg,
Oregon,
United States
what a waste of time

#3Author of original report

Mon, January 21, 2019

Sure have someone on here that just loves to bash people. no prob. instead talking all those words you could ask a couple questions to clerify what it is your bashing me about.

Sure have everything figured out, good for you. There are circumstances surrounding this issue you know nothing about, and didn't ask. just criticise. typical.

This site is a waste of time and no longer subscribing- wonder if this gets posted.

 


Jim

Beverly Hills,
California,
United States
Typical

#4Consumer Comment

Mon, January 21, 2019

You posted your complaint to a public website about a law firm, right.  That means you wanted us as the public to judge them.  However, the public is allowed not only to judge the company you're complaining about, we get to judge you to determine the veracity of the complaint.  You purposely left out the reason why you were in serious default with the mortgage - a situation so bad that you were going to lose the house.  So you contact a law firm to try and save the house.  Now, I believe we can assume you were way behind on your mortgage payments - the reason why is unimportant and not relevant.

No, I do not work for this law firm - obviously.  If I did, I'd do a better job of promoting them.  BTW, yours is a typical response whe you have no good response.

Now to the rest of your complaint:

What is so wrong with me hiring a law firm to save my house? That IS what they are supposed to do right?  NO.  There is nothing wrong with hiring a law firm to do anything, provided you enter into the process knowing there are no guarantees of success.  If you hire a law firm to argue a case before a court, and the judge rejects your argument, that doesn't make the law firm a bad one.  It simply means your argument for success failed.  That is a pretty simple concept.  Even if you lose, you are still responsible for the fees.  You're angry you lost, but that doesn't make the firm a bad one.

Accordingly, there is no law firm that can guarantee they will be successful for you.  Their job is to legally argue and lobby for your position.  It sounds like they tried, based on what you wrote.  However, no firm can guarantee they will save your house - as you put it.  Even if they can't guarantee they can save your house, they did perform work, for which you paid fees.  So you lost your house - which was inevitable (I mean let's be real) - and you had to pay fees.  Do you have a right to be unhappy with the result?  Absolutely.  Does that make it a ripoff?  NO.

When you hire any law firm to save your house, you are basically using the law firm as a last resort.  Understand the only way they can technically save the house is IF (a) you were in a predatory loan, for which the firm can extricate you out of, and refinance you into something else, or (b) there is a legal problem with the original mortgage agreement for which the law firm can work to renegotiate on your behalf.  If neither of those situations exist, and you don't qualify for a refinance, then there is really nothing a law firm can do for you.

Look, you got behind on your payments with the mortgage, and you were in default.  You called in a law firm to see if they can help you save your house.  It sounds like they tried, but they failed.  That doesn't make it a ripoff and it doesn't mean you aren't responsible for the fees.


eric

newberg,
Oregon,
United States
really?

#5Author of original report

Sat, January 19, 2019

A synergy law firm lobbyist i see. What is so wrong with me hiring a law firm to save my house? That IS what they are supposed to do right?

All I am saying is, if anyone is listening: do not hire these people! they will take your money and make you do busy work all the while not helping you at all. Some people are real jerks on here.


Jim

Beverly Hills,
California,
United States
Seriously?

#6Consumer Comment

Tue, January 15, 2019

really wish there was a to recoup my investment in them or my house or maybe there is a class action going on somewhere!!  For what purpose would you sue?  If you fell behind in your mortgage, whose responsibility was that?  How in the world could you ever hope to recoup an investment in your house when you were the one at fault for getting behind?  I'm sure life happens, but your mortgage company does not include life happens into any mortgage agreement.  So let's put that aside because you cannot possibly be serious.  In addition, a class action lawsuits take years to settle, assuming you could even find one, and your ability to recoup anything is ZERO.  Not close to zero.  Not a few dollars.  ZERO.

In reality, the only way the law firm could have helped you is IF either your mortgage was somehow deficient legally, or the bank illegally prevented you from obtaining a refinance.  If the law firm couldn't help you in either situation, then you may as well sell the house before the bank does it for you.  If you have to use a law firm to save your house, then you are really engaging someone as a last resort.

And after all that they didn't do a god d**n thing to save my house-- so pissed.  It sounds like they at least tried based on what you wrote.  There's a lot that happens behind the scenes evaluating documents, contracts, and the like you don't see or even hear about.  Then they advised you to get to the courthouse to file bankruptcy in order to delay what was inevitable, and you couldn't make it in time because your car was towed?  I mean you're tossing every excuse in the book, except the dog ate my mortgage paperwork.  Even if you had filed bankruptcy, the only thing that does is delay the foreclosure.  You would still lose the house.  What you were really paying for in using the firm was the ability to remain in your home until the day....when you couldn't.

You lost your house because you defaulted on your mortgage, not because a law firm couldn't perform a miracle.  You may blame them, but you don't use a law firm to save your house unless you were default to begin with.

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