Detroit: Rally to Keep Jennifer Britt and Her Family in Their Home, Call Flagstar Bank

Saturday, June 9, 4 p.m.

at Jennifer’s home, 15701 Warwick at Midland

(first block south of Grand River)

Call Flagstar Bank– see new info below

Since her husband died in 2006,  Jennifer Britt has struggled to save her home in Detroit’s Rosedale Park, where she lives with her son, daughter, mother and uncle.

With money from her husband’s life insurance policy, she paid Flagstar Bank $26,000 to avoid default. When Flagstar raised the monthly mortgage payment from $1,050 to $1,550, she continued paying. After she lost her job in 2008, Flagstar raised the monthly payment to $1,950 and Jennifer continued paying until she had no savings left. The bank foreclosed on her in 2010.

Jennifer has paid more than $40,000 to Flagstar over the years, only to face higher and higher monthly payments. Now that Flagstar has bled her family dry, it’s poised to kick them out of their home.

Jennifer now has a job and could make reasonable mortgage payments if Flagstar and Fannie Mae agreed to work with her. Housing values have plummeted in Detroit during the foreclosure crisis, and state and federal programs call for mortgage modifications to keep people in their homes. There is no good reason why Jennifer and her family should be evicted, leaving another vacant house in Detroit.

Call Flagstar Bank, 248-312-2000

Tell Joseph Campanelli, CEO, to help Jennifer Britt and her family keep their home. The bank held the mortgage from 1999 thru the sheriff’s foreclosure auction. “Nationstar Mortgage” or some other related entity may have briefly serviced the loan before Fannie Mae compensated the bank with taxpayer money. Flagstar cannot hide its responsibility: it can take back the mortgage from Fannie Mae and modify the loan that it initiated, serviced, and foreclosed on. Other banks have been persuaded to do the same after public protest. We will launch our public campaign this Saturday.

Contact us at: DetroitEvictionDefense@gmail.com
Come to our meetings: Thursdays at 6 p.m., 5900 Michigan Avenue in Detroit

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