Don’t do business with Freedom Hawk Equity! – Part II

Read part I here.

Continuing the story –

We went over the contract once we got settled. We really should have gone over it more before signing. Always read the fine print before you sign, kids.

There was a section later in the contract saying they had thirty-five days to buy the house. That’s business days, Monday through Friday, not including holidays (Memorial Day fell in this time period). This meant they could sell our house up until July 7, 2025.

Right after we got to our new home, the wife was put in the hospital with a blood infection. She was there until the beginning of August so we were dealing with that as we dealt with Freedom Hawk Equity.

Anytime we reached out to Mr. Mendez he would say things were fine and push back the date of the closing.

In the meantime, Freedom Hawk Equity had a section in the contract granting them Attorney-In-Fact power to market and sell our house. They listed our house in the MLS system used by realtors to market homes. On May 19, 2025 the house was listed on the San Antonio MLS service for $394,999, even though the house was near Houston, by Eddie McClintick. The price dropped on May 23 to $379,500, then again on June 4 to $361,500, then again on June 16 to $341,500, then again on June 24 to $320,000. We don’t know why they listed it in the San Antonio market. I think they were artificially devaluing the house for what was coming next. I did an Internet search for Eddie McClintick and could find almost nothing about him. I find this strange as I’ve worked with lots of realtors over the years and I don’t know any Realtor that doesn’t have their profile out there in order to get more leads.

As the end of the 35 business day period approached (July 7) Mr. Mendez told us the closing date was being pushed out to July 18. We told him that we wanted the deal closed by July 7. I sent a certified letter to him and Freedom Hawk Equity saying we wanted to close by July 7 or we’d assume the contract was ended and they weren’t interested. Both his letter and the one for Freedom Hawk Equity were returned, rejected by the recipient. Talking with the Postmaster of our local Post Office, he said the ones sent to Freedom Hawk’s address listed in the contract were returned because the business didn’t exist at that address. The one sent to Edward Mendez came back because the address listed on his business card is incomplete and didn’t have the Suite number.

On July 7, 2025 an associate of Mr. Mendez called us and said they would buy our house but would only pay $240,000. This was almost $90,000 less than what they had in the contract. We told him no and to dissolve our contract.

We had two different agents contact us about buying the house. The first one sent us an email on July 16, 2025 to electronically sign a document saying that the contract on our house had expired. We didn’t even know here was a contract on the house other than ours. The second agent called us on June 25, 2025 saying there was a problem with buying the house and that we weren’t listed as the sellers, but he needed something from us to buy the house for approximately $275,000. We told him we weren’t selling the house that low, then told him we were trying to dissolve the contract with Freedom Hawk Equity.

We received a text from Blake Hawkins, who runs Freedom Hawk Equity, LLC, on July 25, 2025 asking what we wanted to do with the house. We sent a text back saying we wanted him to dissolve the contract, revoke his attorney-in-fact privilege, and remove our house from the MLS listings. He replied he would get together with his team about it.

On June 29, 2025 we received a text from Mr. Hawkins that he removed the MLS listing and it would take a few days to clear. We sent a text asking him about the documents showing the contract was dissolved, and the attorney power revoked. We did not get a response.

We sent a text to Mr. Hawkins on July 30, 2025 telling him to send over the documents dissolving the contract and revoking the Power of Attorney (I was wrong when I texted this). He replied that it is Attorney-In-Fact authorization to sell and market the house. He said he had delisted the house from the MLS and that should end in a few days.

When we replied that we wanted him to send the documentation we requested he replied he couldn’t do it. When asked why he replied
“because we never said we were cancelling you did. The property will be removed from the MLS, I submitted that over.”

We replied that we did not want him selling our house and no longer wanted any business dealings with him. He replied “yes, the listing will go down, but when you try and sell to someone else, and you will. We must be compensated at that closing. Good luck with everything! all the offers were coming in at 210-230K, that agent with his buyer had the very best offer out of 20 plus that were sent. It is a fair deal and you should consider it.”

So, it seems that Mr. Hawkins had no intention from the start to buy our house for the agreed on price in the contract. He was offering our house to other investors, who all wanted it for the lowest amount possible so they could put in some money to “fix it up” then sell the house for a profit.

The story continues tomorrow.

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