ACCE and Occupy Get Nationstar to Postpone Eviction of Mitchell Family

Community organizers with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), Occupy Bernal, Occupy Noe, Occupy SF Direct Action Workgroup, and supporters and neighbors gathered starting at 6:00am on August 22, 2012, at the home of Kim Mitchell. By 9:15am, we succeeded in pressuring Nationstar to tell the San Francisco Sheriff to postpone the eviction of Kim Mitchell and his family from the San Francisco home. Best birthday present ever for Kim! Next, the Mitchell family hopes to negotiate with Nationstar to obtain a fair deal loan modification so they can remain in their home.

Videos    Photos    Media Coverage

Videos

First video thanks to Peter Menchini.

Photos


Last photo thanks to Peter Menchini.

Media Coverage

SF Weekly

ABC News (mistakenly identifies homeowner facing eviction)

Demand that Nationstar Stop the ILLEGAL FORECLOSURE and EVICTON of Kim Mitchell and the Nationstar 7

When a bank foreclosures on a home, we don’t only lose a neighbor, we lose people that have helped build that neighborhood.

Kim Mitchell, City of San Francisco employee and SEIU member, has lived in Bayview all his life. For the last 20 years, Kim has worked with at-risk youth, directed youth programs, and founded and continues to volunteer as a coach for a junior football league to keep at-risk youth off the streets. He’s has dedicated the last 20 years of his life to make sure that at-risk youth get on the right track and to do the right thing.

So when he found out his home was up for auction on the day of the auction even though he had diligently paid a trial modification on time for the last year, he wondered if the banks needed a program to stay on the right track.

Kim didn’t give up. Like many of us, he paid lawyers and agencies to help keep him home for the last 2 years. However, Aurora Loan Servicing, now Nationstar Loans, is going forward with an eviction scheduled for this Wednesday, August 22nd.

And Kim isn’t the only victim of Aurora loans, now Nationstar. Six other families in San Francisco are standing up to Nationstar and are demanding that Nationstar do the right thing and offer them fair loan modifications.

Please take action to help Kim Mitchell and the rest of the Nationstar 7 stay in their homes–

1) Call and email Nationstar with the following message:

* Ramie Baker, Vice President of Foreclosure, +1 469-549-2272
* Jay Bray, President & CEO, +1 469-549-3337

Sample Email:
To: ramie.baker@nationstarmail.com, jay.bray@nationstarmail.com
Cc: action@occupytheauctions.org
Subject: Stop the Eviction of Kim Mitchell and work with the Nationstar 7

Foreclosure Fighters have repeatedly requested that you stop the eviction of Kim Mitchell of 8 Le Conte Cir. for this Wednesday, August 22nd. We are now demanding that you do the right thing and work with him and the rest of the Nationstar 7 to 1) stop Kim Mitchell’s eviction and 2) offer them fair, affordable loan modifications.

The Nationstar 7 are: Denise Collins (60 Garnett Terrace), Vivian Richardson (1479 Quesada Ave.), Mike Doyle (1471 18th Ave.), Daniel Pociernicki (324 Bocana St.), Sherrell Fennell-Murphy (400 Alemany, Unit 5), Kim Mitchell (8 LeConte Ct.), and John Nolan (1175 Palou).

We will continue to demand that Nationstar do the right thing.

Sincerely,

[your name]

2) Call and email the San Francisco County Sheriff with the following message:

* SF Sheriff, +1 415 554 7225

Sample Email:

To: sheriff@sfgov.org
Cc: action@occupytheauctions.org
Subject: Stop Nationstar’s Eviction of Kim Mitchell

Please postpone the eviction of Kim Mitchell of 8 Le Conte Cir. for this Wednesday, August 22nd. We, his community of support, are demanding that Nationstar do the right thing and work with him to 1) stop Kim Mitchell’s eviction and 2) offer him a fair, affordable loan modification.

Sincerely,

[your name]

For updates and web address of this action alert: http://occupytheauctions.org/wordpress/?p=3989

Bank Management

Bank Management are people who have the power to make or influence decisions of the banks to evict our neighbors from their homes, foreclose on their homes, and/or sell their homes at foreclosure auctions due to predatory or for-profit mortgage loans.

Bank Conglomerates

Ally

Owner of bankrupt GMAC Mortgage home loan corporation. Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.

Bank of America

Headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. Acquired Countrywide.

Citigroup

Headquarters in New York, New York.

Fannie Mae

The Federal National Mortgage Association, nicknamed “Fannie Mae”, is a government sponsored enterprise (GSE) designed to facilitate a secondary market, or “securitization” of mortgage loans. The U.S. government, specifically the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), took over Freddie Mac, along with Fannie Mae, on September 7, 2008, and the U.S. Treasury has pumped billions into purchases of Freddie Mac stock to prop up the enterprise. Headquarters in Washington, D.C..

  • Timothy J Mayopoulos, CEO, +1 202-752-7000 (and +1 877-753-0562?)

Freddie Mac

The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, nicknamed “Freddie Mac”, is a government sponsored enterprise (GSE) designed to facilitate a secondary market, or “securitization” of mortgage loans. The U.S. government, specifically the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), took over Freddie Mac, along with Fannie Mae, on September 7, 2008, and the U.S. Treasury has pumped billions into purchases of Freddie Mac stock to prop up the enterprise. Headquarters at 8000-8250 Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia, tel. +1 800-424-5401. Website at www.freddiemac.com.

JP Morgan Chase

Headquarters in New York, New York, and biggest U.S. lender by assets.

Nationstar

Acquired Aurora mortgage loans. Fortress Investment Group owns 77% of Nationstar. Headquarters at 350 Highland Drive in Lewisville, Texas (outside Dallas). Tel: +1 469-549-2000. Web: www.nationstarmtg.com

PNC Bank

Headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

  • James E. Rohr, CEO, +1 412-762-2294 (may transfer to Executive Complaint Office voicemail) or 412-963-6133 (home), james.e.rohr@pnc.com or james.rohr@pnc.com
  • William Demchak, President, at +1 917-348-1173 (cell)
  • Thomas Hyland, Senior Vice President, at +1 212-527-3938
  • Frederick Solomon, Vice President of Corporate Communications, at +1 412-762-7544

Select Portfolio Servicing

Wells Fargo

Headquarters in San Francisco, California. Largest U.S. mortgage servicer and lender. Acquired America’s Servicing Company, Wachovia, and World Savings.

Links: Wells Fargo Loan Modification Policies (internal documents)    “Responsible Lending” Practices    “Help” for Homeowners

  • John Stumpf, CEO, +1 866-878-5865 or for America’s Servicing use +1 301-815-3510, john.g.stumpf@wellsfargo.com
  • Board of Directors, BoardCommunications@wellsfargo.com:
    • John D. Baker II, Exec. Chairman, Director of Patriot Transportation Holding, Address 1:, 192 Sea Hammock Way, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082, +1 (904) 543-8196, and Address 2:, 501 Riverside Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32202. Company contact info: Patriot Transportation Holding, Inc, 501 Riverside Ave., Ste 500, Jacksonville, FL 32202, +1 (877) 704-1776, jmilton@patriottrans.com
    • Elaine Chao, 217 C St NE, Washington, DC 20002, +1 (202) 543-7063 or +1 (202) 543-7063, At Heritage Foundation:. Email: staff@heritage.org with Subject line: “To Elaine Chao”, Media information line: +1 (
202) 675-1761
    • John Chen, CEO of Sybase (locally based), Sybase contact info: Sybase iAnywhere, A subsidiary of Sybase
, One Sybase Drive
Dublin, CA 94568, 
Phone: +1 (519) 883-6898, 
Toll Free: 1-800-SYBASE5 (792.2735)
, Email: contact_us@ianywhere.com, jchen@sybase.com?, John.chen@sybase.com?
    • Lloyd H. Dean, CEO of Dignity Health, formerly Catholic Healthcare West,
      CHW info: 185 Berry Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94107, +1 (415) 438-5500, Contact form: http://www.chwhealth.org/Who_We_Are/Contact_Us/index.htm, @dignityhealth.com?
    • Susan E. Engel, CEO, Portero, Inc, Portero contact info: 28 Kaysal Court, Suite 1, Armonk, NY 10504-1378, United States, Phone: +1 (914) 730-0208, www.portero.com
    • 120 75th St, New York, NY 10021, (952) 824-6438, (212) 734-1449
    • Enrique Hernandez, Jr., Chairman, CEO of Inter-Con Security Systems, Inc.
    • Donald M. James, Chairman, CEO of Vulcan Materials Company, +1 (205) 298-3000, jamesd@vmcmail.com?
    • Mackey J. McDonald. Retired Chairman, VF Corporation
    • Nicholas G. Moore, Retired Global Chairmam of Pricewaterhouse Coopers
    • Federico F. Peña, Senior Advisor, Vestar Capital Partners, Seventeenth Street Plaza, 1225 17th Stre
      et, Suite 1660, Denver, CO 80202, +1 (303) 292-6300
    • Philip J. Quigley, Retired Chairman, President, CEO, of Pacific Telesis Group
    • Judith M. Runstad, Of Counsel, Foster Pepper PLLC, 206-447-8897 (Seattle), runsj@foster.com
    • Stephen W. Sanger, Retired Chairman of General Mills, Inc.
    • Susan G. Swenson, Retired President and CEO of Sage Software, Inc.
  • Patricia Callahan, Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, +1 800-869-3557, Pat.Callahan@wellsfargo.com
  • Avid Modjtabai, Senior Executive Vice President, Consumer Lending, +1 800-869-3557, Avid.Modjtabai@wellsfargo.com
  • James Strother, Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel Legal Group, +1 415-396-1793, James.Strother@wellsfargo.com
  • Ruben Pulido, Asst. Vice President, Communications, ruben.pulido@wellsfargo.com
  • Diana Stauffer, Senior VP Regional Servicing Director, +1 (925) 552-4347 (disconnected), diana.stauffer@wellsfargo.com (email undeliverable)
  • Tom Goyda, spokesperson
  • Alfredo Pedroza, Director California Local Government Relations, 415-396-0829, alfredo.pedroza@wellsfargo.com

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