Chicago Title stands behind their escrow agents who redacted documents, forged documents, changed…read moreclosing dates on agreements, misledgered earnest money as additional funds, and retaliated--only to later admit in a deposition that she didn't like me.
After I was threatened by the investors--after two breaches with no actual buyer and no funds--that if I didn't sell to them, they'd make it so I couldn't sell at all, I called Susan Handwerk, thinking she was head legal at Chicago Title. For three months straight, I was told there were no liens on my property.
But at the end of that third month, their escrow agent spent two days redacting and voiding documents, and shortly after, a lien was placed on my home.
Now here's the truth: the investors never backed out--because they were never the ones buying it. They're flippers. Their game is to get someone else to buy the contract from them at a higher price so they can pocket the difference. But when their supposed end buyer backed out, they were left with nobody to fund the deal. And instead of walking away or being honest, they screwed me again--acting like I was in breach, when in reality they had no buyer, no money, and no right to the house.
And what did the escrow officer do? She hid that fact--that there was no buyer, no funds--while screaming that I was in breach, setting the stage for one of their investor buddies, a Fidelity National faculty member, to file a wrongful lien on my home. A lien that the court later ruled was invalid.
Because of that, I was forced to seek legal help, lost my credit, became housing unstable, and was shoved straight into poverty.
I have every document, recording, email, and text message to back this up--including forged contracts with audit trails, showing signatures were copied from one app and pasted into another. I even have declarations from the end buyer--yes, the guy who backed out--admitting he walked away and forfeited his earnest money.
And Susan Handwerk--the one who told me over and over again that there were no liens? The one who said she was "head legal" on a recorded call? Their own 30(b)(6) corporate rep testified under oath that she holds no legal position at all. She's basically head of the Take-Care-of-Bullshit Department--nothing more.
This wasn't incompetence. This was a coordinated cover-up, a retaliatory conspiracy between escrow officers, the title company, and a tight circle of investors who all knew exactly what they were doing.
I was given no truth, no transparency, and no real chance. My entire life was destroyed by this company's actions. And when I was in court as a pro se litigant with all the evidence in hand, they just kept saying, "That didn't happen," until they finally out-moneyed me into silence.
