We received numerous letters or ads from our mortgage company, Freedom Mortgage, stating that our house was valued at {$240000.00} and that we could refinance to use some of the equity in our house. After applying and providing scores of paperwork, we were told that our house appraised at only {$200000.00} by an appraisal company from Indiana and we could only get a new mortgage if we paid {$10000.00} for it up front. The appraisal was based on more than XXXX houses, XXXX of which was out of our district and was half the size of our house plus it was appraised at only {$170000.00} which lowered our appraisal considerably. I believe that this is a practice that is being used to scam homeowners and wish to have a federal investigation of this mortgage company. 
