McNeil, TX Bankruptcy Law Firms & Lawyers

Since Chapter 13 means that you'll have a relationship with your attorney for the next five years, I'd recommend that you find a new attorney that is more responsive to your needs. It might not cost you anything, by failing to communicate with you (it's obviously BS that an email was sent that you didn't receive, there is no such thing as a lost email), didn't get your schedules filed on time and didn't fully and completely explain the schedules he wanted you to sign and didn't explain what will happen in a Chapter 13 - he's violated the requirements of a bankruptcy attorney. I recommend that you tell him that you're going to get a new attorney and demand that he refund everything that he paid you. When you ask for a refund, tell him that if you don't have your money back today, you'll file a complaint with the US Trustee's office. The US Trustee's office is responsible for policing bankruptcy attorneys and he knows (or at least every competent attorney knows) that he's screwed this up and the US Trustee will force him to repay your fees and possibly cause him additional problems.

There is no way that I am aware of to get a bankruptcy removed from a credit report prematurely. If there was a legal way, everybody would be doing it. One of the ramifications of filing bankruptcy is it can be legally reported on your credit report "up to 10 years." Some creditors may "ignore" your bankruptcy filing after only 2 years, others after 6, etc.- but that is their decision to make. Some creditors (such as high interest car lots) may ignore your credit report almost immediately, proof of a steady job is good enough for them to provide secured financing. But I have no knowledge of how you could remove a bankruptcy after only two years in order to obtain condo financing- the only thing you can do is be up front about it and persuade them you are a good credit risk in spite of your prior bankruptcy.