Sonya Dean says, her Gateway home is part of her American dream.
But our investigation found, Alternative Home Financing has done this more than once. Some local families say that's just part of what's happened to them. Prosecutors say, the problem with prosecuting a case like this is figuring out who was lying. But surprise, surprise the profit didn't appear in the pipeline as planned. Right around the corner in the same Gateway neighborhood, another family says they gave Alternative Home Financing money, and now might have to move as well. But he also ended up owning four of the homes himself. Erich Heckler's attorney told us, his client is cooperating with state investigations, and said his client didn't take anyone's money. Jimenez admits while he worked at Alternative Home Financing, he put people into homes under what turned out to be bogus lease options.
Meanwhile, Sonya Dean says she'd like to have nothing more to do with Alternative Home Financing. The Deans are waiting to see if they'll be able to stay in their home. As Winston Churchill would put, it, we're in the midst of a 'gathering storm.
Erl Hall, the third partner, simply hung up the phone on us. Sonya Dean says, her Gateway home is part of her American dream. We tried repeatedly by phone, and in person, to get any of the owners of Alternative Home Financing to talk to us. References allow you to track sources for this article, as well as articles that were written in response to this article.