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Guest · Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:06 pm Subject:

I am currently using the law office of Richard Brennan for some of my accounts, but I am doing a debt settlement, not consolidation. So far, no problems contacting his office. Email gets the quickest response I think...always by the next day. They even emailed me once to say that they had been trying to contact me and wanted a better number to reach me at.

Leydac · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:35 pm Subject:

I am also a client of United Christian Financial which was taken over by Mr Brennan's Law Firm. I would suggest to anyone thinking of doing business with them to look elsewhere!!!! They have done more harm than good!!! We have had payments that were not posted to the creditors, payments that were ment for one creditor and sent to another and the most god awful customer service I have ever experienced. IF and that is a big IF you are able to talk to a live human being, they are the rudest, degrading people I ever have come across. We have disassociated ourselves with them and like a previous poster mentioned, were able to work with our creditors and are actually paying lower interest rates then with the credit counseling. To those that were actually able to post positive comments about Mr Brennan's LAw Firm, congrats...you are one of the few!!!
Carrie

Angered client · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:43 pm Subject: Clouding the air

Spoken like most lawyers I know. How many times did Johnny Cochran exclaim, "This is an outrage," without actually addressing the facts and issues on the table. Whether, sir, you have represented Credicure or other such companies in the past is not at all relevant to the problem. The problem is that your law office does not reply promptly to inquiries, and as far as my experience goes, everything was running smoothly until your law office took over my payments. Now I am receiving letters from creditors saying that they have not received payments in well over a month. What happened? I don't know. Everyone at the law offices of Richard A. Brennan appears to be on quite the extended vacation. Basically, what the hell is going on? Originally I was with USA debt management. Then before I know it, I'm with Credicure. Now without any notice from anyone, suddenly I'm with the law offices of Richard A. Brennan, and my creditors are NOT getting payments in a timely fashion. People are coming to this Web site for a reason, Mr. Brennen. They're not stumbling upon it randomly. They are here because they made a good faith effort to repair their credit, and your company is making the situation worse! You take money out of our accounts, you do God knows what with it (golf would be my best guess), and then you expect us to come up with the funds to take care of our credit card bills in addition to the money you have already automatically deducted from our accounts. Fantastic. What is YOUR basis for charging that the claims made on this post are "insinuation and misinformation"? Seems like the tone of this post is that you and your predecessors are doing one heck of a lousy job for the lot of your clients. A few seem to be making it through unscathed, but I'm not sure what they might be doing different from the rest aside from calling your office constantly during business hours and demanding satisfaction. You can keep my deposit. I'm withdrawing. I'd rather lose a few hundred bucks rather than watch my credit score crash through the floor because of your ineptitude.

Guest · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:50 am Subject:

IGNORE THEM! I somehow went through a consolidation process with United christian Finanical and everything got transferred to them. They are so hard to get a hold of and they do not pay my bills!!!! BE GLAD YOU ARE NOT IN THE PROGRAM ALREADY.

meatorbeat@yahoo.com · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:17 pm Subject: brennan

I am currently with them for one of my accounts other than some slight delays they are tolerable to work with.

No Name · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:48 pm Subject: Re: Law offices of Richard A. Brennan

Do not do it. He has a bad track record and shouldn't be charging you a retainer for debt consolidation. debt management company that claim to be nonprofit, are suppose to offer their services for free with the question of a montly donation (which you can refuse and still get the service) This is a shady practice and I would be very careful. In other words decline the offer, you can do better on your own. Call your credit companies and tell them you are looking into consolidating your debt with a management company and 9 times out of 10 you can work out a good deal, and you will know exactly where your mopney is going every month.

Jenn08 · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:27 am Subject: Debt

I have recently signed up with Fidelity Reserves, which is now referred to as this Richard Brennan. I am a little nervous now after reading all of this, as they have deducted a payment out of my account. Help me out if anyone.

In Tears in Texas · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:36 pm Subject: Law offices of Richard A. Brennan

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to get my money back from debt settlement company? I started debt settlement with the Law offices of Richard A. Brennan (alias: Credicure) in April. It is now July and I have just now received a "Welcome Packet". I have had 3 payments taken out of my checking account and not one penny has been sent to my creditors. I'm now out close to $1500 for nothing! Futhermore, I cannot reach anyone at the Law offices. I have left messages by phone, email, and fax for over 2 weeds, but not one message has been returned. When I try to check on my account via the internet, the site is continually down and I can't even find out any information about my money! In the meantime,my creditors are calling me numerous times a day and I'm in tears! I've gotten to where I don't want to anwer my phone anymore. Before all of this, I wasn't behind on any payments but wanted a way to manage my debt since I'm a single mother. Now I'm months behind and my credit is a mess! What do I do now? I want to get out of this company but also want my money back, since they didn't distribute it as promised.

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:41 pm Subject:

In Tears in Texas

I feel so much for you. I can understand when some scam company tries to steal the hard earned money during crisis. File your complaints with the AG's office in your area as they might be having many complaints against Richard A. Brennan. Also, if you can afford a lawyer, he can show you some direction. Fighting with these scammers alone is quite tough and time consuming. You should have researched about them earlier so that this situation could have been avoided. But anyways, whatever has happened can't be changed. Talk to some free legal aid in your area.

stayawayfrom BrennanLAW

I have some very disturbing information about this "law office"/ CrediCure. I have been waiting for several payments to be made to my creditors. As of now my February Payment has not been sent to my creditors. The Brennan Law firm is a fraud. 100% fraud. of all my payments this year only 1 has been on time, that is of the payments they have actually made on my behalf. Recently I received a letter telling me that my account was being switched again to another company. Brennan Law does not and will not return phone calls, or e-mails. I evententually went right to Mr. Brennan, who is a lyer and absolutely immoral. In fact of all of the companies that have been being sued there is one common denominator...... Richard A Brennan and his involvement with those companies.

I retained all of the e-mails that he finally responded to nad sent them along with letter to the massachusetts Attorney General's Office along with a copy to the Maryland Attorney General's office. His organization's failure to make timely payments, or withold payments is a breach of contract and illegal. I have since reported this matter to local police and my bank asking that they make a case of wire fraud, which may sound far fetched, but the fact of the matter is that is stolen money, and when they refuse to make the payment and/or call you to explain why there is even more wrong doing. I urge all people who have issues with this company to file charges. I am also speaking with a reputable Boston attorney to file charges against this organization on behalf of anyone who is a member and wishes to be a part of the suit. Should anyone be interested please contact me via e-mail. For anyone looking into this company...... STAY AWAY!!!!!! They are scum!

My e-mail

I am willing to share my experience further with you give you all the options available (i.e. contacting your congressional leaders, Attorney General's office, BBB etc). Remember this Law Office is Scum!!!! Mad

email address removed as per forum rules - Mike

D Rutler · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:41 am Subject: Richard Brennan

I was with CrediCure. My payment had always been posted to my creditors on time. I never had any problem. Since Richard Brennan took over my account, I have had one creditor that has never been paid. When I call, I get a machine. When I am fortunate to speak with someone I get the run around. I have been told my creditor, Citibank, will not accept any more electronic payments. Citibank has vehemently denied this charge. They have advised me that they believe I am being taken advantage of by Richard Brennan. Brennan now has $518 of my money that has never been posted to an account.

Tears in Texas · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:13 am Subject: Richard A Brennan

I, too, am being scammed by the Law offices of Richard A. Brennan. They have nearly $1500 of my money and have not distributed it to any of my creditors. Some of you have stated that you have saved their reply emails for your records. I can't even get them to reply to my emails!Neither have they replied to my numerous phone calls and faxes. No one answers the phones at the company and their website has been down for months, so I can't even check on my account! I feel used!!!Yesterday, I put a stop payment on my bank account so they cannot withdraw anymore money. I have reported them to my local BBB. Is that the right route to take. This is all new to me and I'm upset and scared. I'm a single parent and ran up credit card bill when caring for my dying father last fall. Can Richard A. Brennan's office (aka Credicure) still withdraw money from my account even if I've put a stop payment? Can they take legal action against me? Can I take action against them for not holing up their end of our agreement?

Terrigal · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 8:45 am Subject: Richard A. Brennan law firm

I'm so frustrated and sick that I didn't do more research before I hired the Law Office of RAB to represent me. I signed my contract back in January, and have been making payments every month since...tell me why they have not even contacted my creditors yet!?

If you leave a message they don't call you back. I called today, was put on hold and then disconnected after a half hour of waiting. And when you do get through, those obnoxious women they hire to answer your questions give you nothing but attitude.

I spoke with my creditor (Chase Manhattan) today. They were very helpful and settled with me themselves for 30% of my outstanding balance at monthly payments I can afford (about 20% less then what I was paying at RAB). I've put a stop payment on my bank account...I'll probably lose the $1,400 I've paid so far, but will end up saving about $4,000 overall and salvaging whats left of my credit.

Consider yourself warned.

Guest · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:21 am Subject: Get out while you can

I will let you know - and I have been with RA Brennan for over a year - that I have actually watched my credit score drop 100 points since signing up. In addition to that , I have paid my creditors over $2000 since I started with RA Brennan, because of late fees and all that stuff. They pretend they will get it wiped out, but - that is not the case.

He is a scammer if there ever was one. What is he doing with all our payments?

I have a lawyer friend that has read through my contract and I am thinking about moving forward against his company....for pain, stress and pure credit hell!

Guest · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:28 am Subject:

TO RICHARD -

It is funny that your office actually has the time to make sales calls...when they don't have the time to actually do the job we hired you to do!!!

Five of my credit cards have still not received their payments. Oh, yea, and I beleive you shut down your office from Monday until today - so even if we wanted to discuss our situation - that you put us in - we weren't able to.

You are a joke!!!

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