Bank of America stole this guy's Challenger!

[68blue]

This sounds like local mob stuff as neither the cops or the bank are interested in helping solve the mystery. His only recourse now is to sue BOA for the info. The car is long gone.

[aussiemuscle]

the car is long gone.

my guess too. the contractors saw it and helped himself. i don't know why the bank is protecting them tho (maybe the bank is liable).?

[Brightyellow69rtse]

my dad showed me that in the paper over the weekend. boa is the worst damn company ever! their usually at the top of the top 100 most hated companies list.

[1BAD68]

Most likely the car is in storage/hiding right now.
The 'companies' banks hire to do the clean up of the houses are just local people usually doing this as a second income.
So chances are good if the guy were to get enough attention, maybe through the local news channel, someone may have a tip that would lead to the whereabouts of the car.

[1974dodgecharger]

Most likely the car is in storage/hiding right now.
The 'companies' banks hire to do the clean up of the houses are just local people usually doing this as a second income.
So chances are good if the guy were to get enough attention, maybe through the local news channel, someone may have a tip that would lead to the whereabouts of the car.

im gonna be a negative nanay and say a 'chally' in storage from some contractors.....

[Sendero]

The mortgage fraud issue runs very deep. Robo signing, by-passing county fees, advertising a mortgage as performing when it was not, MERS as a front company to major banks, banks claiming interest in a property during foreclosure when they have no interest, submitting fraudulent documents to the court in foreclosure cases.  The issue here is the big banks can commit fraud on a large scale to make hundreds of millions but a small community bank that did the same would be closed and its directors brought up on serious fraud charges. In contrast, the big banks simply negotiate a "fee" to pay the Federal government to stop further legal actions. The private party sees little to no justice. The end result is the "fee" is small compared to the ill-gotten gain so the banks continue the slime tactics with the government taking a small % of the ill gotten gain.


http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2195085

[nh_mopar_fan]

FOUND!

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120801/NEWS03/708019961

[myk]

F**k Bank of America...

[1974dodgecharger]

FOUND!

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20120801/NEWS03/708019961

FCK YEAH....figured it was those damn contractors.....stupid of them trying to register it thoughhahhahaha...

[Ghoste]

ANd it turns out the thief is devoted family man too.  Begged for bail so he could visit his daughter.

[TheGhost]

Dont think theyre the thieves.  Think they just bought the car from them.

[PocketThunder]

From the article:
"Dahrooge said it had been appraised at $85,000."

C'mon... 85 thousand dollars?   

[TheGhost]

Might be how much he had invested?

[young99]

I will NEVER do business with Bank of America....had dealings with them in the past....they really don't care much about their customers no matter what they say................Been that way for years.  
(I closed an account with them and they still had it on their books as being opened...three years later....I made so many calls to clear up the issue that I lost count....finally got it taken care of......anyone that does business with them has to be crazy.....*just my two cents)

The unfortunate reality in the U.S. is that if you have a mortgage you may not have a choice.  Your lender can, at any time, with no approval from you, sell your loan to BoA.  Should that happen, the only way to get away from them is to pay it off or refi (with the associated thousands worth of fees)... and if you refi, the new lender can then turn around and sell to BoA.

That is the truth. I had Countrywide mortgage during all the sweetheart deals they were giving to their management. I was actually being overcharged during the whole mess but that is a different story. My account was given to Bank of America when Countrywide went out.

I decided to get away from them and refinance directly with Wells Fargo, I have had zero issues since switching. There company has been around for quite some time and should be around for many years to come.

[1BAD68]

Most likely the car is in storage/hiding right now.
The 'companies' banks hire to do the clean up of the houses are just local people usually doing this as a second income.
So chances are good if the guy were to get enough attention, maybe through the local news channel, someone may have a tip that would lead to the whereabouts of the car.

[mauve66]

From the article:
"Dahrooge said it had been appraised at $85,000."

C'mon... 85 thousand dollars?   

that's what i thought, maybe back in 2005

[Brightyellow69rtse]

really glad he got it back. 85k isnt likly but its definarlt possible. i went to a shop some years ago that had a gtx they were doing for a customer. it looked like a very nice car but it didnt blow me away or anything. he said the owner had 80k into it. he said it was so rotted it shouldnt have been saved but he just wanted it done regardless.

[Mike DC]

    
Yeah, but the amount spent on a car is not the same thing as its value on the market.  That car didn't look like $85k even if they spent $850k on it. 

[472 R/T SE]

Besides that it's a '73 made into a '71.

Anyone ever try to sell one like that?  Most of the time they never get sold cause the person who spent all that money converting it don't want to lose so much.

[Ghoste]

Whether its worth 85000 or 8500 its clear it meant a lot to the guy and I'm glad to see he got it back.

[NHCharger]

Looks like BoA got shamed into paying for the repairs. They will turn this around and use it for a big marketing ploy on how they care for the little guy.


http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20120803%2FNEWS%2F120809800%2F0%2FSPORTS04

[Ghoste]

And raise some small fee a cent or two and spread it out over everyone to recoup the costs.

[BIRD67]

I know this guy, wicked nice man. met him at the summer nationals in woer.

[ChgrSteve67]

In CA you can file a lien against a car and request ownership be transferred into your name if the owner does not claim the car. There are a bunch of other things you have to do with the DMV like have them sent registered letters to the last known address of the registered owner (DMV will not provide that info to the person submitting the lien).

The thrashing of the Challenger by these guys is just wrong as well as B of A not disclosing the information. I think they should have to pay for the damage done to the car since they knew back in March who it was that had access to the house and the property in it.

I'm glad the rightful owner got his car back.

[Mike DC]

 
The only recourse the owner is gonna have to recover the car's damage is the thieves themselves.  If I was a judge I wouldn't hold BoA liable for any of that. 

BoA deserves to be punished for the initial stonewalling.  (It'll never happen of course.)  But the bank really didn't have anything to do with stealing the car besides the thieves happening to find the car while they were on the job.  BoA was never laying claim to the car nor authorizing the guys to move it off the premises.