One of Colorado’s top foreclosure lawyers on Tuesday tearfully described being forced to sell her multi-million-dollar home in Centennial — “The house I thought I would die in” — in order to pay lawyers defending her and her firm against a state lawsuit alleging they saddled struggling homeowners with millions in concocted costs.
In a twist of irony, Caren Castle — whose Castle Law Group helped foreclose on thousands of Coloradans during the height of the mortgage crisis — testified that the costs of defending herself and her lawyer husband, Larry Castle, against the state’s four-year investigation and ensuing lawsuit pushed her to sell their palatial 11,439-square-foot home “for much less than I thought I’d sell the house I thought I would die in.”
The three-story, seven-car-garage home in the town of Foxfield in eastern Arapahoe County is replete with a fully equipped gymnasium and an outdoor pool with tennis courts on 2 acres of land and sold in November 2016 for more than $2.4 million, records show.