I have always paid my bills on time. In XXXX, however, my business suffered a severe financial crisis and had to declare chapter XXXX. My HELOC was discharged but we wanted to keep the house and so since then I have been working very hard day and night and have been paying my bills on time. I voluntarily caught up the payments on my HELOC in XXXX and then it was sold to a serving company who resold it to SLS. I have continued making on time voluntary interest payments for the past 5 years and have never missed a payment or been late. In XXXX XXXX the HELOC reaches 10 years and I will owe {$730000.00} balloon payment. There was a clause in the original contract that they have the option to refinance. 

I called SLS XX/XX/XXXX to ask them if I could refinance in good time so that we do n't wait to the last minute and have any problems as I can afford the monthly payments, but not a lump sum of {$730000.00}. The person who answered seemed very unknowledgeable and incompetent and said because it was discharged I could not refinance. ( But it was discharged and they have happily taken my voluntary interest payments ). I was told to write a letter with my request and they would get back to me in 5 days. I have faxed the letter and mailed it and they are ignoring me. 

I am feeling like they are loan sharks who took over the loan, and have been taking my interest payment money while waiting for the balloon payment to come due, and then instead of working with me to try and extend the loan or refinance the loan, they are just waiting to pounce on it and take it from me as soon as the balloon payment date arrives. 

We are trying to refinance through other banks and this could very well happen, but just in case it does n't, I need to keep all options open, and I wish they would cooperate with me, be reasonable and discuss our options, so we can get this taken care of in good time. 
