American Mortgage in Bohemia is working extra hard to clear up some name confusion these days. That was evident when a branch manager of the New Jersey-based mortgage bank served as a panelist at a Hauppuage Industrial Association executive breakfast Wednesday.
“Please don’t confuse it with American Home Mortgage or I wouldn’t be here today,” Michael Campites told the early morning audience at the Sheraton Long Island Hotel in Hauppauge.
American Home Mortgage, which was based in Melville, was one of the early victims of the current credit crunch and mortgage crisis, which began last summer.
When customers contact American Mortgage, Campites said, one of the first questions they ask is “Are you the American Home Mortgage that just went out of business?”
The lender will have to either keep explaining until enough customers get it or consider changing its name.
--Carrie Mason-Draffen