I am in desperate need of some help. Need to know where to go for financial help for my mother in New York?

Question

My mothers house is going into foreclosure and she needs some kind of goverment help so that it would pay her mortgage before she looses her home. You see she kind of got bamboosell into some bs and now she is in trouble. A so call company promised to help her mortgage her home and instead she got taken. My point is where do we go from here in NY legally were my 68 year old mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother lto many goes for support lfrom our government without loosing what shde so righteously earned in her life. Her Home. URGENT time of the essences.

Answer 1

Contact the New York Attorney General's Office - fraud department or their senior citizen help unit.

The New York Attorney General website is:

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/

Here are some of their phone numbers:

Consumer Helpline: 1-800-771-7755
Crime Victims Hotline: [phone]
Medicaid Fraud Control Unit: 212-417-5397
Environmental Crimes:1-800-771-7755
For the Hearing Impaired: 1-800-788-9898

Call one of them to get a referral to the right department.

Here is a link to specific city's phone numbers in NY.

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/contact/addresses.html#hotline

Good Luck and God Bless... will say a prayer for your grandma!!

Answer 2

I would go to one of the local TV stations. That happened in my town over the summer where a company sold the house out from under the unsuspecting owner. She thought she was going to get to keep the home but somehow get some money out of it. This is different than your mom's situation. I don't know of any government programs, but maybe she could get a reverse mortgage where the lending company pays her monthly payments until her death and then the house is owned by the lending company. Good luck. I'd plead with the mortgage company.