XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX, NE XXXX have a private student loan ( through XXXX XXXX, now Navient ) that went into default and cosigned on a private loan that also went default. XX/XX/XXXX, I set up terms with XXXX XXXX XXXX ( XXXX ) to get off the co signed loan and make payments to mine. The agreement was to pay $ XXXX/mo for 3 years without missing a payment. I then would be taken off as a co-signer to that loan, and to discuss a buy out option on mine at the end of the term. I agreed. It was a verbal agreement via phone. Nothing was signed. I payed them {$500.00} at the time of the agreement XX/XX/XXXX, and the 1st automatic payment was at the end of that month. Then they automatically withdrew payments of {$150.00} ( from XX/XX/XXXX ) on, or around the last day of the month for the next 3 years. 
I called them XX/XX/XXXX to verify how much longer I needed to pay. They had no record of the agreement that was made. They told me I still had to keep paying, do a buy out option, or make payments upwards of $ 300/mo. But they did not say for how many years. They said only a small percentage was actually going to the loan itself, and since the payment was going towards XXXX defaulted loans ( mine and the co-signed XXXX ), only about {$4.00} of the {$150.00} was being applied to each outstanding loan balance. 
The director of finance at my job told me to ask for an amortization because they are required to give that. I asked XXXX for an amortization of the payments to see where the money was being applied but they said they could not provide me with one. I talked to XXXX XXXX ( works for XXXX ) about trying a buy out for {$2500.00}. I had {$2100.00} in savings and checking combined. I offered him that, but he refused. And he had to have all the money today or the offer was no good. 
I contacted Navient, who transferred me to their " account portfolio manager '' and I told her the situation. I told her I believed the collection agency Navient sent me over to was fraudulent. But the lady said there was nothing she could do. Of course I could hardly understand her because she was from XXXX. I asked her if I could go back to paying Navient directly. She said no. She could only tell me she was affiliated with Navient, but I was talking to a separate company. And that she was going to be assigning a different collection agency ( XXXX XXXX ). I did not agree to that but she did not change her mind. I have received XXXX letters, XXXX from XXXX XXXX and the other from XXXX XXXX offering a buy out option on the co-signed loan. 
I do not know which companies to trust. I do n't think Navient is very trustworthy either. I believe the private loan side is in cahoots with the collection agencies they 're assigning. I can not find an unbiased source to talk to for help, other than the CFPB.