Debtstoppers reviews and complaints
bankruptcy filing
This has been the worse experience ever…
This has been the worse experience ever and the worse decision ever made! I hired Debstoppers back in January 2014 for a chapter 13. I received a call that my case after 5 years has been dismissed. The frustrating nature of this is that I have been trying to reach out to their office regarding my case since May 2019, as I was to have my bankruptcy discharged as of July 2019. I have now been informed that the case has been dismissed and that was behind the rudest phone call from an one of their so called attorney's that spoke in a loud, harsh and degrading manner. I have sent emails and made phone calls informing the only people that you are able to speak with which are paralegals of my hardship situation and to no avail, although they claim there was a motion in court, they never advised of the documentation required to even present my case. When they called today they advised that now the creditors are able to collect. What have I paid for over the past 5 years? They have yet to be thorough enough with the details of my bankruptcy.
Country of complaint: United States
Dont file with debtstoppers
They just want your momey. They dont rxplain and include everything. They ignore you, they rude and represent you right. I advise anyone do not file with debtstoppers they just want money. They take your money and are rude. They dont represent you correctly i hate them and wish i wouldnt have filed with them and now finding a lawyer to help me properly. Someone should investigate them and close them down. They just want your money and dont explain nonething to you. I hate them
Company Business Name: Debtstoppers
Country of complaint: United States
Address: Chicago, Illinois
Phone: 312-447-7830
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
I have watched their commercials on TV. One woman raved about them. she said Debt Stoppers helped her and now she was able to buy a new home and a new car. Now does that make any sense at all. Who would give this person a mortgage and also a car . I hope no one would believe this commercial. By the way, the home they showed (just from the outside) looked like it was probably about $300, 000. How much of a down payment was she able to give the mortgage company. That commercial is totally ridiculous!
Beware of attorney fees
STOP! Don't do it. Get a second opinion and READ everything you sign. They are crooks! I went to DebtStoppers to seek advise about filing a bankruptcy because I had an apartment charge on my credit that total $7000 and a tax lien from the Dept of Revunue.They advised me that it was best I file a Chapter 13 to stop the harassment. I took their advice and filed. True enough their fees were $3500 in which they make that seem like pennies. I filed last year Feb. Come to find out the apartment complex didn't file a claim against me which left me with the tax lien and a few small bills totaling $3000. After paying over $2200 in attoney fees, I decided to dismiss the case last month. Well, yesterday, I received a call from a Pierre Porter and David Lazono from their firm insisting I pay the remaining balance of $1200 to them or there would be seriour consequences. THIS WAS TOTALLY NOT EXPLAINED when I dismissed the bankruptcy last month. If it was, I would have given it more thought because why would anyone in their right mind choose to sign an agreement that says if the case if dismissed for any reason you still owe the $3500 regardless if you dismiss it voluntarily. I guess I wasn't in my right mind when they were cohersing me into signing the paperwork last year as I was filing. They are a total ripoff and you're right, there were so many blacks in their office and at the hearing. It was shameful but I fell into the trap and will forever regret it.
Company Business Name: Debtstoppers office of Robert J. Semrad
Country of complaint: United States
Address: Atlanta, Georgia
Website: debtstoppersusa.com
Sorry Random16 but the truth hurts and YOUR argument is without much logic.. just another uber sensitive individual always looking for a soap box to sand on and complain... Now for the logic.. they are a company that profits off predatory debt assistance that most times leaves the customer in a much worst situation than they were before. Think... payday lending interest rates for example.. and she was simply pointing out the obvious with her demographic observation.. the vast majority of people who become victims of companies like @debtstoppersATL are African Americans who live at or below the poverty line and live in poorer parts of the city and surroundings. Hey.. just check out where their offices are and you'll get the idea. They sure aren't in any hurry to open up shop in East Cobb or Johns Creek where people are too well educated to ever consider trusting their financial problems with such a filthy organization as @debtstoppersATL.. Think for a second before you lash out at someone who was just trying to get some help and was probably faced with two-faced, bait-and-switch employees who weren't in any hurry to advise her of the implications of the decisions she was making or walk through any fine print with her. These companies DO NOT care about their customers.. only about who they can trap next.
Your comment, "there were so many blacks in their office"... WTF? What does that have anything to do with your complaint about the firm? That just shows people that you see people in color, and not Americans. Which proves that your judgment isn't at where it should be and your head so far up your butt that you probably can smell your own crap that is coming from your mouth. And your comment about the attorney fees being paid even if you voluntarily dismiss your case. Well, yeah! Services just don't disappear just because you had cold feet. You think a venue would say ok that is fine if you've cancelled your wedding? You think the dentist will cancel their fees if you've decided to take your braces off and not wear it anymore? You think that you can refund a condom if you've decided to put it back in the wrapper and return it? Everything you try to say is like vomit out the mouth. Do you hear yourself speaking when you talk? Or are you just normally ignorant when you share your opinion? I am not against anyone leaving a bad review on any businesses. But I am against ignorant rants about something that could have been avoided if you were at least 70% adult. Man up and get your problem fixed. Loitering on the internet to leave negative racial comments aren't going to change the fact that you've used their services and decided to run off without paying. Ever heard of dine and dash? Now I need a refund from you for wasting my time elaborating these useful guidelines to you so that you can survive another 5 years of life. What a joke.
Debtstoppers - worst people to fill a BK with
I went to debtstoppers in Chicago, Ill. they did not advise me correctly on the chapter 13 or 7. I shoiuld have filled a 7 not a 13. They took their money off the top and bill collectors were still calling my job and home. They did not explain the process. When you try to reach them by phone, you never get the person who served you or a return call. When the bankruptsy was finished, I learned they did not include all of my creditors and they only paid my creditors a small portion so that there would be more left for them. Then, finally, when the BK was ended, because they did notE file the case properly, I was NOT dicharged by the trustee’s office. To re-open my case which was closed, I went thru HELL.
Company Business Name: DebtStoppers
Country of complaint: United States
Payment Issues
False advertisement. Attorneys fail to return phone calls. My mortgage company did not receive some of the payments made thru debtstoppers. Attorneys collected money from my account, now I can't get them to even return my calls.
Country of complaint: United States
Address: Chicago, Illinois
Website: debtstoppers.com
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Can I file a Chapter 7 for car loan, traffic tickkets, IRS
Debtstoppers is a Fraud and need to be STOPPED by the consumers! Everyone who have a complaint against them need to file a complaint with the Bar Assc. in your state. Georgia Bar Assc. & Chicago Bar Association. Those are the two States there're in. DebtStoppers sits on their butts and collects money. They are Frauds! They don't any work for the consumers, as list all their debts, they don't fight a consumer mortgage company for them, they place you in a Chapter 13, and not Chapter 7, because they gets more money for Chapter 13. Some consumers don't need to file a Chapter 13 for their debt, Debtstoppers place them in a 13 to collect money. Many consumers would come out better filing a Chapter 7, to wipe all their debt out at one time, but Debtstopper always make the decision to file a chapter 13 instead. If a consumer is not having mortgage problems, a 7 is better for them to file and Not a 13. I've notice, even when a consumer have mortgage problems, Debtstoppers would tell the consumer, to deal with their mortgage outside of the Bankruptcy. "What", did I hear that correctly? Why shall a consumer deal with their own mortgage problems, when they files a Chapter 13? That's why the consumers pays Debtstoppers $3, 900.00, to deal with their mortgage problems and not pay a auto loan as a Secured debt, and over look the one & only Secured debt, the consumer mortgage. Debt Stoppers don't want to do any work for the consumers, as negotiate their debt down as the auto loan, if they could. If a consumer bought their auto a year, before they filed Chapter 13, Debt Stoppers should be able to reduce the value of their car and reduce the car payments. "But again, Debt stoppers don't want to work for your hard earned $3, 900.00 they collects from you". All Mortgages, "do you hear me Consumers", All Mortgages, are part of your Chapter 13 Bankruptcy! And especially, if you are behind in your mgt. payments! Don't allow Debt Stoppers to tell you any different! Consumers, wake up! Start filing complaints against this Fraud. File with the Bar Assc., in your State. File a complaint with your Congress Rep., in your district. File a complaint with the Federal Trade Comm. (FTC), to close them down. STOP, allowing this Dirt Bag Company get away with this. Bankruptcy is Federal and not State. That means, all Bankruptcy Laws are the same in Every State. Your home should always be included in a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. Don't let Debt Stoppers tell you any different. Make them work for your Hard earned money. Make the Bar Assc., whom over all Attorney's Investigate their Illegal practices. Debt Stoppers Never answer phone calls & they don't return calls. "That's not Legal under Attorney/Client E. Code with the Bar Association. Make them hear you, with your Complaints!
DO you know about parkng tickets is t greatest st vovred on a chapter 7?
VERY UNPROFESSIONAL NEVER RETURNS CALLSBEEN WAITING 3 WEEKS FOR RETURN CALL
This is so TRUE. I have went almost 8 to 9 months trying to reach Mr. Aaron Weinberg and she refuse to call me back. He refuse to answer some of the question I asked. He then proceeded to yell at me like I was his child. I was unable to file a complaint with anyone.
Debt stopper is very unprofessional I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy just like everyone that's complaining are not winders..it's the truth ..they are bad news if you have a important question to ask them they never .. Never answer the phone you will be on your own after they take your money..when you first start there will be a nice person to answer the phone after that you will meet with them and when they get your money you are on your own..never again in life and would not recommend anyone to debt stopper they are terrible