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I'm a young veteran, and I joined the military right out of high school. I did my four years,

got my degree. And two years ago, at the age of 22, I moved my wife and kid to Florida

to start a military-sponsored internship program at one of their approved companies.

At the end of that internship, the owner of the company

promised me $180,000 salary if I bought his house.

That promise was put into an offer letter

and an employment contract,

and that offer letter solely qualified me

for no money down VA Jumbo loan.

So I proceeded to buy his house for

$830,000 with an $845,000 mortgage at a 6.75% interest rate and a nearly $7,000 month

payment. Immediately after I closed, he cut my pay, making that offer letter fraudulent.

And over the course of the past two years, my pay's progressively been cut as he ran the company to the ground.

And as of two weeks ago, I'm completely unemployed. I'm owed over $150,000 in wages.

I've since vacated the house. I got a rental house for my wife and kids. I start a new job

tomorrow, but I'm being forced into a short sale and will be about $200,000 underwater. So my

question is, what would you do if you or me and what are my options to minimize the damage to my credit

and my future home buying privileges.

So at what point in this process and how many times in this process did your heart try to tell your head how stupid this was?

I could tell you a long story of how I was convinced it was very legit company.

I mean, I interviewed to do this.

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