SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon attorney general has sued American Team Mortgage, claiming the California loan modification company charged more than $80,000 in illegal fees to Oregon homeowners.
The lawsuit filed this week in Marion County Circuit Court alleges that American Team Mortgage charged 32 Oregon homeowners the fees before providing services.
The complaint alleges the company obtained loan modifications for only a fraction of them and refunded fees to only two homeowners who paid them in advance.
By June 2010, the lawsuit said American Team Mortgage effectively went out of business, leaving dozens of Oregon homeowners without a loan modification or refund.
The lawsuit also alleges that Steve Hufstedler, the company’s owner and president, claimed in a website video the company got “great results more than 95 percent of the time.”
