Florida couple threatens Bank of America branch with foreclosure after they were falsely foreclosed

A retired couple in Florida got some sweet revenge on a Bank of America branch they said wrongfully tried to foreclose on their house.

In an era where it seems like everyone is behind on their mortgage payments, Maureen Collier and her retired police officer husband Sgt. Warren Nyerges were in a different position - their the Florida bank owed them $2,534 in attoey fees. The branch refused to pay up despite a court order, the News-Press reported.

On Friday, the couple's lawyer, a moving company and two sheriff's deputies went to the bank with an ultimatum: hand over the cash or an equivalent amount of fuiture to be sold at public auction.

After an hour of negotiations, the bank chose to cut the couple a check for $5,772.88 to satisfy the original debt plus other fees related to the collection, the Naples News reported.

"It's sad it had to go that far," Karen Bas, a hairstylist at a salon in the shopping mall adjacent to the bank branch told the newspaper. "It takes a lot for one person to get what's rightfully theirs."

The trouble bank began in February of 2010 when the bank filed for foreclosure on the home owned by Nyerges and Collier. But the couple had paid fully for the house in cash from the bank in 2009 – with no mortgage attached.

The bank and their attoeys became convinced otherwise, so the couple hired an attoey to help them fight the foreclosure, which was soon abandoned. After the ordeal, they were left waiting for the money the bank owed them for the expensive attoeys they had to hire.

"I talked to branch managers, I called anyone who would listen to me," Nyerges told the Naples News. "And I wrote a certified letter to the president (of the bank). No response, nothing."

A Bank of America spokesperson tried to pin the blame on the law firm they worked with.

"We apologize to Mr. Nyegres that there was a delay in receiving the funds," Christina Beyer wrote in a statement to the Naples News. "The original request went to an outside attoey who is no longer in business."

The case served as a rallying cry for frustrated homeowners.

"Everytime I read this guys story it brings a tear of happiness to my eye," one commenter wrote on the Naples News site.