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Fraud Collection Letter from home sale that didn't close?

My husband and I received a collection letter stating we owe $26,000+ to the seller of a home purchase agreement that never closed. It's an extremely long story so I won't go in to all the details but we went under contract for a house in Suffolk Va and as things were moving forward we found alot of misrepresentation and what we believe was fraud in reference to the realtor, mortgage broker, and seller so we didn't go through with the sale. We got a letter from the seller's attorney threatening a lawsuit if we decided not to close but after that complete silence..we never got a termination agreement for the contract and the realtor called and said point blank if we weren't going to close then he no longer worked for us and hung up on me and I never heard from him again either..the whole situation snowballed into another bad situation with our then current rental and we focused on that and finding another place as well as gathering information and trying to find a lawyer so we could later sue or in the least report to the correct agencies what all had happened and like I said we were never contacted again by any of the others regarding the transaction..that was in May and now a few weeks ago we both got a collection letter from a company saying they are attempting to collect a debt of $26,000 for the seller and if we don't dispute it within 30 days it'll be considered valid and action will be taken to collect! I checked online for the house and it was sold in August and we weren't ever sued so I don't understand how this could be a legit letter or debt..also when I looked into the collection company I found that its owned by the seller's attorney. I'm going to send a dispute letter tomorrow but I've been researching to the best of my ability and I just don't understand how anything in this whole situation is legit and just hoping to get any insight at all!

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