Saturday, October 3, 2015

Batch 3 - Free Write 1: Frustration

My best friend is about to lose her house. She had lived in this house with her husband and their four children since 2001. They have made this house their home for almost 15 years, and to see her on the verge of losing it is heartbreaking.

The education provided by Arizona State University in the field of public policy and public affairs is extremely helpful especially when one is putting that to the ultimate test. The entire mortgage contract was read, and re-read to be completely understood of its entirety. My best friend and her husband are eligible to apply for loan modification. That may seem so easy to do at first until the frustration began. The accounting practices, the banking habits, the filing system, and even the house payments records or receipts were non-existence. The vexations level accelerated even further when my best friend’s husband kept rumpling away with things that didn’t even make any sense at all with the application for a loan modification. To put this lightly, one really wanted to tell him to shut it up.

The application form was completed, the IRS Form 4506-T was filled, profit and loss statement done, letter of hardship typed and printed, bank statements compiled, utilities statements bunched together, and immigration residency photocopied and put together with everything else.  All these documents were over-nighted to the second party that handled this house loan. Five weeks, four customer services representatives, and 5 financial managers later the ongoing frustrations escalated. This family couldn’t afford an attorney and an accountant, and they are relying on the due diligence of the student.


Four faxes and uncountable emails with numerous phone calls – the ongoing frustration has heightened that I am on the edge of giving up. I love my nieces and nephews and for that reason alone I can do this, and I think I can see this through despite the frustration.   

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