Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett is urging county homeowners to attend free one-on-one foreclosure prevention counseling in Gaithersburg.
Counselors from Asian-American Homeownership Counseling, HomeFree USA, Housing Initiative Partnership and the Latino Economic Development Corporation will be available at Summit Hall Farm, which is located at 506 S. Frederick Ave., from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m Saturday. The program is co-sponsored by the City of Gaithersburg and the Montgomery County Housing Fair Planning Committee.
Leggett urged residents to beware of companies trying to make money off struggling homeowners.
“At a time when homeowners facing foreclosure are under a huge amount of stress, there has been a proliferation of unscrupulous scam artists who prey on them, sometimes charging them thousands of dollars to get a loan modification service that never arrives,” he said Tuesday.
