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Reviewed Dec. 13, 2011
One star is too high to rate our experience with BOA! On June 1, 2011, my husband and I applied to BOA for a refinancing of our home loan. Our goal was to reduce the 'total' amount of interest we would pay until we pay off the house, by reducing the interest rate and the capital as well. (We were ready to push a substantial amount of cash to reduce the principal borrowed.)
The amount of money we were asking for, was less than 25% of the appraisal of the house (appraisal performed by the BOA itself. ) Our household annual income is more than the requested amount, our jobs permanent, and our credit score excellent. In their words, "It is a piece of cake! We will have a quick and easy closing!"
I am not even going to talk about the amount of documentation they requested in the process. It was ridiculous!
Our main complaint is that it took exactly 6 months for this closing to happen (Dec 12, 2011)! During this period we were on continuous contact would be assured that "the closing is just a matter of days".
At some point one competent employee took over the case, started everything from the beginning again (appraisal, title search, etc) since everything had expired so long after, and had the case done in 3 weeks. I won't talk about the amount of documentation
Reviewed Dec. 13, 2011
I have looked into modifying my loan with Bank of America and it's so hard to deal with these people. First, they want all these forms filled and filled with so much detailed information and tons of copies of everything as if the modification was going to be made. Then they call with to say the modification was not approved because of something and I would say "I told you my situation, you could have told me that I did not have a chance because of whatever" but the people you deal with are so lame that there are layers and layers of ** that have no idea what they are doing.
I am behind 4 payments due to a hardship, but I am making my payments and I asked if I could send additional amounts over my normal payments to makeup/catch up my past due payments. They said I would have to pay double for four months, anything less than the double amount but over my regular payment would be returned to me. That it has to be double the normal payment. I said what? I go, can you send me this in writing, like a schedule of payments? He said "no". That sounded weird as if they were hiding something.
They said that since I did not qualify for the first type of modification, I need to resubmit everything all over again to somewhere else. I said, but you have my application! Why don't you just forward it to the next step and his response was negative, that is the way it works. I hate Bank of America. Another thing, I had to be the one calling for to figure out the next step, they don't send you in writing what to do next.
Reviewed Dec. 13, 2011
On 12/30/10, I cancelled my escrow impound account,and received a check refund of the account balance on 1/3/11, followed by an updated payment statement for my new payment amount. I pay my bill via online transfer, on the 7th of each month, and have never been late or missed a payment. In mid-March, I started receiving "robocalls" from "America Home Loans", and after filing an FTC complaint, I called the number to try to get the calls to stop. The calls were actually from BofA's bill collector, who told me I had a balance due. I learned that BofA had withdrawn $819, and sent it to my insurance company, despite my having closed the escrow impound account, and them never receiving a bill.
BofA then turned my account over to collections. I made a bunch of calls to identify BofA's error, replaced the funds that BofA had illegally withdrawn from my account, and got a refund from my insurance company for the extra payment. I then wrote a RESPA QRW to BofA, demanding they close the escrow account (again), correct any additional errors, remove any late charges, and ensure that my credit was not impacted by their mistake. They ignored that RESPA QRW, as well as two additional QRWs, sending acknowledgement letters, but never making any attempt to correct their errors. They never actually fixed the mistake, but instead, kept adding late fees to the account, and not properly crediting my monthly payments.
Every time I reached an agent, the person tried to fix the problem but the fix was undone by the next day. This went on for five months, when they began sending checks to me for "partial payment", because after withdrawing the late fees, they kept adding for their mistakes. My mortgage payment didn't cover the full P&I. I spent more than 45 hours trying to reach someone, who would help fix the problem, and got many promises, but I could never get anyone who cared enough to follow through to resolve the problem.
I finally was on the verge of hiring a lawyer when I made 1 last attempt. I emailed the BofA CEO, and included a copy of my notes, describing all of my actions to try to fix their error. At that point, I received a call from someone in the CEO's office who fixed the problem. After all of my time spent, and months of stress trying to avoid a foreclosure action, BofA never even sent an apology. Only a $25 gift card for Home Depot.
I tried to refinance my property during the summer but BofA had reported something negative on my credit report so I was unable to qualify. (my credit score is normally around 800). The value of my property has since declined, and the loan to value is now too high to refinance, without bringing a significant amount of cash to the transaction. I spent more than 45 hours of my time trying to fix their error. This time was spent during my work day, so I had to make up for these work hours. I developed stress related health issues, and had to get acupuncture treatment, because massage therapy didn't fix the problems.
I paid my bills on time, in full, but was totally abused by this company. They were obviously proceeding down their foreclosure track with my mortgage despite the problem being 100% their error. They illegally withdrew money from my account, violated numerous regulations, and thumbed their nose at RESPA, which is supposed to provide the consumer with some protections. I want some consequences for BofA! I have copies of all documentation and notes on all of my calls, and conversations. Is anyone suing these **? I would love to lead a class action lawsuit, so they have to pay punitive damages for all the people they have abused.
Reviewed Dec. 12, 2011
I had posted here several months ago, about my family's situation with BOA. The tune of this board is negative, as we've all had so much trouble and headaches with BOA. However, I want to share a piece of good news, and offer hope to those out there also in my situation.
After 2 years of waiting on BOA to help us modify our mortgage (and not making a mortgage payment in those two years) We finally heard from BOA, telling us they are going to approve us for a trial modification from Jan-March 2012. This is after we were denied several times before by both MHA and BOA in house department. They lowered our original payment to $100, and told us if we could make those payments on time for three months, they would consider us for a permanent modification. I understand and realize there have been many who have not had success with this particular arrangement, but I truly do believe this is the answer to our prayers, and I know we are going to be able to keep our home.
They told us they have no intention of foreclosing, and this is apparent in the fact that we've not made a payment for 2 years, and we are only considered delinquent. They explained once we're approved for the permanent modification, they will take the arrears and capitalize them back into our loan. We realize we may not have much equity in our home, but we are already upside down by no fault of ours, just the way of the economy. We're hopeful we can stay for several more years to come, as my husband is filing bankruptcy, and he needs the time to improve his credit.
Everyone fight! I fought for my home. I was relentless. I wrote two letters to the CEO and Barbara Deseor, V.P. of Mortgage Services. I was heard, and I was answered quickly after that. Before that, I made so many phone calls, and was always persistent week after week, to pester and harass BOA. They were tired of hearing from me. Of course, I, and many others prayed without ceasing as well. I believe in prayers, and I believe in fighting for something worth keeping. I encourage you all to do the same. Good luck and blessings to you!
Reviewed Dec. 11, 2011
They called my house over 20 times without leaving a message and when I answered, no one said anything. Then, they called my job and did the same thing. I called them and was told that they had not received payment in 60 days then proceeded to acknowledge all payments. I made two months of payments without ever receiving a statement. No statements showed late payments, extra payments due, etc.
When I received a statement showing escrow, I paid it all as I was told that if I did, my monthly payment would remain the same. The next statement showed four times more escrow due and my payment went up $70 a month with no explanation. I have always paid on time. I feel that they have some responsibility in explaining or proving non-payment which I have no record of.
How could I be 60 days late when they acknowledged payments? How far back are they talking about before starting the calls and why call if no one says anything? Why not speak or mail me a list of payments? How did my escrow go from approximately $190 to over $500 on the very next statement? My payment has never gone up more than $10 since I have been living here (1999) and that's when times were good. Taxes and insurance have gone down, so why did my payment go up $70? Why is there no customer service? I wish they would sell my mortgage to another financial institution.
Reviewed Dec. 10, 2011
Bank Of america mortgage. One star is too much to rate boa! We started out with a loan of $159.00. Now it is $204.500. We have been fighting with BOA for a year now with a lawyer for this modification. Our house has been up for sale 5 times and it has been stopped. But the bad things is you get a modification then they take you off and say I requested it. I did not. We made our payments with the last modification and they never applied it. They put it in parc. bal. Then added late fees. I will never pay. I have print outs from BOA website account of my payments. One payment, it took them a month to cash the check.
We then send certified checks with return receipt. So I would have a name who signed and when they got it. I called and they said we do not have it that is why the late fee is applied. I would tell them I have a return receipt and give the name of the person that signed and when it was received. It did not matter. My lawyer has sent 2 demand letters to them to give proof that we owe them money, they cannot produce the papers. I tell you this, if anyone sue's them let me know, my husband and I will be right there. All they have put us and others through is sad and they need to be stopped. I could go on and on but it would take all day and night. I have a file that is about 6 inches thick of papers that i have filed sent, copied, noted and faxed. If there is anyone that can help let me know.
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2011
Bank of America serviced my mortgage for almost eight years until they sold it to another bank. They sent me a statement stating that I was to pay mortgage to the new bank on November 1, 2011. I submitted a claim to my homeowners insurance last month and got a check payable to me and Bank of America. Today, I went to the bank to deposit the check and they refused to process my request since my mortgage loan is no longer with them and told me that I was responsible for making all the necessary changes for escrow payments. I called my new Mortgage bank and there are no locations in my state. I feel very upset and will cancel all my accounts with Bank of America.
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2011
I am waiting for a response from Bank of America regarding a loan modification qualification that was to be reviewed this past Tuesday. I haven't heard from Bank of America yet but I did receive a yellow post on my door today indicating that Fannie Mae (Mac) has taken over my house. I've been trying to modify the loan but in all three attempts, nothing favorable. The first time, I was declined because according to the bank, I didn't submit all paperwork. My house was scheduled to be sold at the court this past Tuesday but my case manager said that they will review the documents submitted this same past Tuesday. What happened? I don't get an answer from the bank yet I get a notice on my door where I can easily see that I lost my home. What can I do? Where do I turn for help? I called the case manager and left her a brief message. I'm waiting for a response. Lets me think, "What excuse they are going to give me this time?"
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2011
The first time I tried to submit, it said I had to rate my experience. I didn't the first time because I thought one star was too high. Since I had to rate, one star is the lowest, but still too high. I too have had the same nightmare experience with the Bank Of America modification process. Every packet returned filled out completely and on time, every daily phone call answered and addressed, everything BOA asked me to do, I did. During this time I also made many duplicate mailings, faxes and phone calls due to BOA stating that they either did not receive the fax, have any record of me calling or show no record of receiving my documents. I have even made the supposedly 3-month trial payment on time for over a year, only to find out that I had to re-apply.
I then made the regular loan payment on time for 10 additional months. I was then told that I did not qualify and it was best that I initiated a short sale. I did. There was a cash offer that was declined! Not countered with an additional higher amount, just declined. The next day, there was a note on my door stating that the property had been purchased at a trustee's sale and a realtor had been hired to sell the property. This happened within a couple of days after they convinced me I should initiate a short sale. I am still receiving letters that my loan is under review for modification and that someone will be contacting me within 20 days. When I asked about these letters, I was told that BOA has no record of these letters being sent.
I was told I needed to vacate the property. I don't want to. My 6-year-old will be devastated. I have jumped through hoops trying to stay in my home. Also, this is the first time since I got the loan in 1995 that I have had repayment issues. I feel I along with everyone else has been given false hopes all while jumping through repeated massive paperwork requests.
Reviewed Dec. 8, 2011
I have the same complaint as Desirai of Lincoln, CA. Two calls a day letting me know my mortgage is in arrears. I have paid my mortgage on the 15th for 12 years. When I went into my local branch in Mechanicsville, MD to try and get the calls to stop there was nothing they could do. This was the first they had heard of this and seemed as surprised as I was to learn that any payment after the 1st is past due. They don’t charge us until after the 15th as a courtesy. I’m going to shop for a new mortgage tomorrow. I have lost my trust and don't feel safe with BoA holding my mortgage.
Reviewed Dec. 7, 2011
I've been trying to get my mortgage remodified for over six months now. I've sent all the information they ask for, then they say it's too old, and ask for the same information again. I've told them my income has been frozen for two years, but they still ask for my income information, my bank information and my bill information over and over. I'm fed up, but am still trying to pay even though I am getting further and further behind on my other bills. Bad credit is the least of my worries. I'm afraid that I finally will get so far behind that I won't be able to pay my home mortgage and will lose it.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2011
My husband and I have been in the process of refinancing our home loan. Bank of America has our current loan. We have been early on every payment! This process has been awful, continuously requesting information they already have, or have access to themselves. We have done everything they have asked. Now, they are telling us they can't make our 60 day lock. We have been strapped, not using our credit card for the holidays, planned on skipping a month's mortgage and putting it towards Christmas. Now this? We are ready to move on from this bank! If you cannot close before our deadline, we're done with this bank. My husband is going to the news.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2011
Little did I know that when BofA bought the rights to manage my FHA loan 3 years ago that I would be in living hell! I have been dealing with ridiculousness when it comes to paying my mortgage to this bank, BofA. But the latest and newest complaint is for harassment. Payments are due on the first of the month. There is a late penalty after the 15th and they don't report you until you’re 45 days late; but that doesn't stop them from calling because technically you’re late after the first and it’s an attempt to collect a debt, a courtesy!
They know how to call. I receive calls every day, sometimes every hour of that day. And no matter what I tell them, they call again. Calling me only makes me hesitate to call and defiantly makes me despise this bank more and more. I have spent my time, money and so much energy into keeping my mortgage with BofA and have never received customer service from them about my ongoing issues. I just want to be rid of BofA!
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2011
Bank of America used the tax payer money for their benefit and then turned foreclosure type loans to their sister to make more money. Bank of America is now running a foreclosure business. I guess foreclosure looks bad on the bank especially since they have taxpayer’s money to help the public. And they use Green Tree who they can push their problems to. I do not want to foreclose. I want to keep my property and refinance. But Bank of America labeled it as a bad loan and sent it to their sister company Green Tree for further investment from the poor. Bank of America does not want to tell you that this is part of their company. But I know how they’re trying to make money out of everyone who is already in trouble due to the property values.
Green Tree is a company from hell. They have rude staff and even worst supervisors. They have taken over 2 months to go through a subordination process for me. Bank of America likes to sell loans to them and avoid foreclosure on their books due to the taxpayer money they received from our government to help the people.
Bank of America sells these loans and do not send out any communication. I had to find out afterwards when I went to make my payment. Green Tree holds on to the loan until they can come and take over your house since it is part of their plan. They make the refinancing process almost impossible. My new lender is ready to close on my loan but Green Tree wants to drag the process for months. So, my new lender walked away and I am stuck with them again. That’s part of their money making machine for Bank of America after forced foreclosure.
My lender complained about them and no one is doing anything to fix it. I worked with Erica ** who is the subordination staff and her supervisor Stephanie ** who is no help. Stephanie is worse than Erica. Erica tries to be polite after I ensured her that my frustration is at the process and not her. During the first few times, Erica put me on hold for 15 minutes after I complained. I called back and got someone else but it was the same process. I feel the subordination department is run by one person. And there’s no Erica and Stephanie. There is no one to complain to in Green Tree to get anything done. Actually, nothing gets done until they come and take over your house to make more money.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2011
Nania ** works for the mortgage modification unit. She has continually asked me to resend faxes that I sent and have receipts for. She told me that when they receive a fax, it may take days for it to be put on her computer. Then, she will tell me it never arrived and we were denied because we didn't send the required papers to her. She is a liar and Bank of America is stealing the money the government set aside to help mortgage holders refinance at a better rate. When a class action law suit starts on this fraudulent bank action, I want Nania ** included for lying and fraud. Our income in under $22,000 yr and my payment to BOA is $800 per month. We are dying here and Boa don't give a **.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2011
BOA pre-qualified me for a loan on a second home (retirement) I was requested by phone to pay a $465 fee prior to receiving the loan package and was told that if the loan was denied by BOA, I would receive a refund of the fee. After months of faxing documents, they denied the loan because I was unable to document where a $300 deposit to my checking account came from. This deposit was made 4 months prior to the loan application. BOA has refused to refund the $465. I understand this is a small amount, however, if you multiply this amount by hundreds and thousands of fees, you can see that it adds up pretty quickly. BOA is running a fee scam. They also tried to pressure me into a credit card and life insurance. I do have all the documents available as proof of my claims.
Reviewed Dec. 6, 2011
I give them 0 stars. I am a 65 yr old Vietnam veteran. I'm in poor health. BOA bought my mortgage from Country Wide. Being responsible, and proactive, I contacted BOA. It is a system totally out of control. I was switched from office to office, and around the circle repeatedly. After hours of trying, I finally got to talk to someone who said they could not help me, but when pressured, said she would file a report. She said the proper office would contact me by mail.
Some days later I received a letter stating Stanley ** would be my rep, and that he was in debt collections. I reminded him that I was up to date in my payments, but was getting behind in other bills. I could barely understand the man, but made it clear that I did not want the payment taken out on December 3, 2011. He agreed. I can not get a return call from him, or his supervisor. Even worse, they did take out the nearly $1,300 from my account. Now I can not pay my other bills, and no money for food this month. I am totally **. This is the mortgage company from hell. Please, please help me.
Reviewed Dec. 5, 2011
I am only choosing 1 start because the website is making me....
Much like the other stories I've read here, my nightmare started with BOA in February 2011. We received notice that we qualified for a modification on our 2nd mortgage. So, BOA sent paperwork stating that we were also being considered for a modification on our 1st mortgage. The paperwork stated that all they needed was some simple information and they could start the process (simple! yeah right!). We decided to try for the modification on the 1st mortgage because the previous process has been fairly painless, except that I had to fax paperwork several times because BOA claimed they never received it.
Now we move on to the real nightmare. I sent the paperwork that BOA requested by FedEx (in the envelope they provided). I called a few days later to confirm that they received it. They stated that they had not. The BOA rep told me to give it a couple more days and call back. A couple of days later, I did just that and again I was told that they had not received it. But this time I was given a fax number and asked to fax the paperwork and to wait 2 business days and call back to make sure they received the fax. Are you kidding? I do work for a living and it is very difficult to call BOA and stay on hold forever trying to get a live warm body on the phone, much less one that speaks English. But I did what they requested. After faxing the paperwork 3 different times, I finally made some progress (or at least I thought) and they said they had it.
Now I was instructed not to make my payments and to call every 2 weeks to check on the status of the modification. I thought it was strange that they told me not to make the payments. But I had just been through this same process on my 2nd mortgage and they had also requested that I not make my payments. Everything went through just fine. After countless phones calls and many hours spent on the phone with BOA trying to find out the status of the modification, I found myself several months into this nightmare with no answers and BOA not willing to give me the time of day. I really started getting worried. So, I finally got in touch with a rep. They stated there were no records that a modification was in process on my home and they would look into it and call me back. Needless to say, that never happened!
Much to my surprise the following Sunday (Sept 4, 2011), my home was advertised in the local newspaper to be auctioned off in a trustee sale. On Sept. 6, 2011 is when I received notification of the sale. I frantically started calling BOA to try to make some sense of what was going on. I was told that the modification had not gone through because they had not received the paperwork they requested. I tried to explain that I had sent and faxed the paperwork countless times. The BOA rep stated they had no record of that. I asked if I could fax it again and I was told that was not an option. The only option was to have over $15000.00 paid within 3 days.
I know many of you are thinking why. After not making a mortgage payment for 6 months, I should have had the money. Well in Dec. 2009, I was diagnosed with cancer. After 5 surgeries and 4 months of chemotherapy, I had a mountain of medical bills. So, I took the money that would have normally paid the mortgage and paid off some medical bills.
To make a really long story short, our family moved out of our home in September 2011 and BOA has yet to do anything with it. They haven't foreclosed on it at all. I uprooted my children and moved out because of BOA's empty promises and negligence in handling paperwork properly. I will never deal with BOA again in any way and I will share my "hellish" experience with BOA with all who will listen.
Reviewed Dec. 3, 2011
It appears my story is parallel to so many others. I, too, was promised so many things from Bank of America. I was told over and over and over again, "We do not want your house of course. We would love you to stay in it." I, like so many others, gave them all the info they needed within the time frame. I was told one lie after another and I feel like I've been bamboozled time after time. I have had a pit in my stomach for over a year waiting on them to make their decision, jumping through hoops whenever they asked.
I also thought I must be going crazy because they would say one thing one week and the next week it would be something totally different. This didn't happen on an occasion or two, it happened all the time. I was told after I "proved myself" in a special forbearance, they would work on a permanent modification. Lo and behold, one day after the forbearance was up, they called me relentlessly asking me if I wanted to sell in a short sale or other options, none which included staying in my home.
I have no idea how people can work at Bank of America. I have no idea why there isn't a huge class action suit against them. I have talked to attorneys here and there but I don't have thousands of dollars for a few letters. I find this entire process incredible. I cannot believe they are getting away with it and destroying families.
Reviewed Dec. 2, 2011
1 star is way too high for BoA. Our situation all started back in the fall of 2009, when I lost my job. We were told by many people at BoA that they would only accept a full payment, which we could no longer afford, so, we applied for a modification. It wasn't until May 2010, that we finally got preapproved for one. We sent the paperwork back, filled it out correctly, and waited. About 6 months later, they informed us we got denied because our signatures, that's right, our signatures were incorrect! What? I saved the paperwork, and sure enough, they are correct. So we reapplied, got preapproved, and waited. About another 6 months passed, and we were denied. This time because they said it wasn't notarized, which of course it was, and we have proof.
Fast forward to yesterday, when we received a trial period offer that starts January 1st. Finally! I called my rep at BoA to break down the payments, and told him we will make it happen. I was finally able to sleep, until today, when I find out they filed for foreclosure against us yesterday. The day after they sent the trial offer, which doesn't even start until January 1st!
So my question is, will we need a lawyer, or will the judge just need to see the statement we have from BoA, offering a trial, dated the day before they filed for foreclosure? I hate BoA so much.
Reviewed Dec. 2, 2011
I began the process of mortgage modification in January of 2011. At the time, I was current and had never so much been late on a payment for the nine years I owned the house. I had been unemployed or underemployed for just over a year at that time and had exhausted my savings, retirement and ability to ask family for assistance. BoA told me I appeared to qualify for a HAMP and in the meantime, they offered me a three-month forbearance plan. Since I didn't owe any delinquent payments, the paperwork sent to me said my payments would be $0 for those months. By the time I received the paperwork, I had less than 48 hours to respond, so there was no time to consult legal counsel. I read through it several times and found nothing that stood out as something to be concerned about.
At the end of the forbearance period, I received a letter stating that if I do not pay all three months outstanding immediately, they would begin foreclosure proceedings. I contacted my BoA rep and was assured that I could disregard this notice and that they were starting the modification process. During this time, there would be a hold on any foreclosure and that the money owed for those three months would be added to the amount to be refinanced. From the time that process began, BoA has been drowning me in paperwork requests. Many times I had only 24 hours to comply. Each time the process completed one hurdle and I was bumped to the next (often with a new rep to go with it). I was again asked to provide more documentation. None of this was easy to do as I've been taking work away from home for months at a time in locations where I was lucky to even have cellphone coverage. I still managed to comply with all of their requests.
On November 15th, I spoke to my current BoA rep who requested further documentation which was faxed to them on the 17th. She explained that once they received this, they would be sending my application to the underwriters and it would then be a 60-90 day period before they would have a decision. I received a voicemail message from my rep late in the day of November 23rd (the day prior to Thanksgiving) asking that I call her. I was only able to start trying to reach her on the 30th due to my work schedule (there's a reason it's called "Black Friday"). On November 30th, I received a letter from BoA (dated the 29th) stating that my application had been denied due to my not providing them with the requested documents. The letter claims that they had sent me notice of what was missing (they did not) and that it had been longer than 30 days since this request.
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2011
This bank's customer service dept. is completely useless and out of date. I have been attempting to have them resolve a problem where they received my mortgage payment but did not apply the payment, and said I never sent it! I had my bank, Chase, fax proof back in July and still (it's November!) it has not been resolved after numerous phone conversations. They state they cannot email to an outside email address and you cannot return a phone call to anyone there because they can't transfer a call. Too many locations I was told.
It's extremely frustrating to say the least when you have to conduct business on your lunch hour! I apologize for being employed! Their customer service is extremely condescending and rude. I would deter anyone from banking with them. You cannot get any help without asking for a supervisor that you can never communicate with again! It's completely exhausting and the fact that they lose customer's money is extremely frightening.
Their phone pay system needs to be completely revamped. How do you claim you never received funds that were proven that you did and then threaten foreclosure! If that's customer service, then they might as well be the mafia.
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2011
Just as previous postings have stated, I purchased my home through Country Wide and my mortgage was transferred to Bank of America. My husband and I separated and I was living with only one source of income. I read up on the loan modification and was sent the paperwork for completion. I returned the forms several times only to be told by BOA they never received the documents. I applied for the modification prior to my account becoming delinquent. I was paying insurance on my mortgage where, if I fell into hardship, I would receive assistance. The young lady that I spoke with told me that I could not use my insurance. If I am paying for insurance, why can't I use it?
I requested speaking with a supervisor and was told the same thing. This made no sense to me as the documents I had on hand specifically said the insurance was for this purpose. I proceeded with the loan modification and resent all information. After over a year of calling, I finally received a letter to say that I was approved for a trial modification. To accept the offer, I needed to make the first payment.
I made the first payment and the next thing I know I’m receiving a letter from Sirote & Permutt to say they will be foreclosing on my home November 30. Now mind me, at the beginning of the year my home had been placed into foreclosure because they said my payments were not received for 6 months. This was untrue! I paid the reinstatement amount of $4800 to prevent foreclosure on my home. I was informed to send a letter to their research department and proof that payments were sent. I sent in the letter and provided MTCN numbers and MO numbers.
I have yet to hear from anyone. This go round I am 5 months behind per se! Untrue! I faxed a letter to them providing receipt numbers and dates of payments asking that they research my account. I called to follow up, thinking this would clear everything up and they claimed that they never received the letter. The fax number was confirmed to be correct. I did everything I possibly could to prevent this disaster from happening again and BOA was of no assistance! When I spoke to an initial representative, he saw where I was approved for a trial modification. The second rep said that she showed that I was denied. I sent a copy of the letter that I received. I had already sent two payments in from the modification in between conversations. Then they started receiving my payments back and the reason being was the amount sent was not enough.
That would be incorrect! I sent the amount that was on my monthly stub. I was under tremendous stress! I asked them to send a statement showing how my payments were being posted. I received the statement and it really did not make any sense to me. I am very disappointed in BOA and based on all of these complaints, a class action suit should be filed against them because it appears that the complaints are from customers who transferred from Country Wide and were good paying customers until they feel into hardship. This should be sent to Obama and he should most certainly do something about it. These commercials about the modification need to be removed from the television because the modification is a joke!
I ended up having to file Chapter13 bankruptcy to keep them from foreclosing on my home. BOA is out of line and should be prosecuted for wronging so many people. This is not the BOA that I knew when my husband and I bought our first home. We received a payment booklet and the amount did not fluctuate as my mortgage has been since changing to BOA. Because of all of the mental anguish I have suffered, BOA should be made to forgive my mortgage and refund me all of the funds they have swindled me out of. When you have a bank as large as BOA that robs its customers of their credibility, they should be shut down and all mortgages forgiven! This will prevent future mortgage companies from coming in and abusing the system for their own gain. People need their homes, so what do you think they are going to do, try to pay what they are saying is past due to prevent foreclosure? So sad!
Reviewed Dec. 1, 2011
First of all, couldn't you put something below the star rating? Let's say, a ** or something else to show total displeasure for BoA? (They don't deserve capital letters). For 3 long years, I've been trying to get my ex-wife off of my loan and I've been trying to get my loan on modification. I was lied to by 3 different BoA staff members that once I received my mod loan, my ex-wife would be taken off of it. Hundreds of phone calls, always to different boa staff; bad phone numbers given; hang ups after being on the phone for an hour; always getting different answers from different people about the same subject and the promise from some of them to call me back. Giving me that little sense of hope, only to be let down yet again.
Now, I finally got the mod loan, my ex-wife is still on the paperwork and yet she did not sign the modification loan! How can that be? These people have made my life, at the age of 62, a living hell and I even thought about giving up. How did these people ever get the right to treat good, decent people the way they do? Is this the company that we bailed out? I helped them? Forgive me Father for I know not what I did.
Reviewed Nov. 30, 2011
One star is way too high; they will not help us keep our home we have been paying faithfully for 6 years. I lost my job in May and have exhausted all of our savings, I have since begun to lose my eye sight and have applied for disability. My wife is working 80 hours a week and is at the breaking point. BOA just keeps giving a run around with no help. They will not return calls, make promises then do not keep them.
We are losing our home because of the way BOA treats its customers, they do not care about us the consumer only about selling my house. We had a loan with Countrywide and the rate is at 6.5%. If BOA would adjust this rate to a more current rate we might be able to make it work if I could get approved for disability. Where is our president and why he can't help us instead of giving money to Solar businesses that failed badly. Our future is bleak and my vision fails a little more each day.
Reviewed Nov. 30, 2011
BOA sucks. I scheduled a payment online and I just found out by luck that it would not be processed. I cannot believe how crappy their customer service is. My name is on the account as an authorized contact on the account but they would not confirm if my payment will be processed or not. I tried logging on and kept getting error messages, that's why I called. I was told repeatedly that the status of my loan is not going to enable me access. They made us send in signed authorization letters and now all of a sudden they can't locate the letter anywhere. How convenient. I have to find out a Bank of America branch tomorrow. I miss school in order to make a payment.
Reviewed Nov. 29, 2011
On 2/2010, I walked into my BoA Branch Office, to ask about a loan modification, because I was underwater, minus equity. I was verbally escorted out. The loan officer said, because I had a job, I was not eligible and could still make my payments. Then I lost my job on 3/10/2010, and requested a home loan modification, and they told me I qualified. So the application I received was completed, and sent to Home Modification Program Department at BoA. First, they could not find it (until I gave them the tracking number, and who signed for it), then it miraculously appeared. Then they said there where pages missing, then they found them, then it was in review, then the application time expired. This happened 6 times!
Finally, I came across the unemployment program, in which I was told I could have 3 months from paying my mortgage, and they would place the payments at the end of my mortgage. So they asked if I would like to opt for the program, or stay with the Home modification program ( they stated that after the 3 months I would reapply for the modification program), so I was happy to have that burden off my shoulders for 3 months, and agreed.
So I reapplied, and now they said, because I am still unemployed, I am disqualified, and I declined the Home Modification Program (which I never did), and my only options are Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure, or Short Sale. This has been going on still, after almost 2 years. I only wanted to keep my very first home, the so-called "American Dream". Now, I have to file for bankruptcy, because I have maxed out my credit to pay for bills, and living expenses (utilities, food, etc.).
Thank you BoA for dragging me along, until I lost my life savings, misleading a taxpayer who helped bail you out, not once, but twice, and making my owning a home, my dream come true!
Reviewed Nov. 28, 2011
I applied for a modification back in February 2010 due to marital problems and was laid off by my job in October 2010. I was told in June 2010 that I have been approved for a permanent modification and it was coming in the mail soon. It is November 28, 2011 and I still have nothing in my hands. I went to the Bank of America event in Sacramento, Ca on November 17, 2011 and was promised a decision by that weekend. It's been almost 2 weeks and still no decision has been made on my modification. We have been strung along by BofA for 19 months and counting. My house forecloses on November 30, 2011 and my FC postponement was denied by Freddie Mac with no reason. I am trying to get in contact with Freddie Mac, but due to the high volume of calls they are only accepting messages.
Reviewed Nov. 25, 2011
I received in a mail from BOA shortly after it took over from CountryWide stating that I could be eligible for a modification. I read over all the paper work and at the time I was three months behind on my house payment. My wife was the only one working. I had lost my job but we made some payment. I made copies of all the paper work, signed all papers including the mailing label that was sent from BOA for the modification. I submitted the paper work. During the three months that was stated in the paper work, my wife still made the full mortgage payment for three months, caught up with the three months behind then started making the payment. The modification stated that I need to do it until I received a statement if I was approved or not.
My wife paid more than what was indicated. But when my wife sent in the May 2009 payment, BOA had sent the approval letter. BOA received my payment before I received my approval letter. I called the bank several times during the waiting period and I was told that all looked good and it was taking a lot longer since so many others were doing the modifications. Shortly after I received my approval letter, I noticed a few months later that my payments had not been showing any changes so I called BOA and they indicated they had not received payment from me since August of 2008. Me and my wife got all cancelled checks and bank statements, went to the bank, got on the phone with bank and proved that all payments had been made. Then I was told that the problem would be looked into.
Shortly, I received a letter stating that I had been denied due to failure to comply with the modification payments when I received my approval letter and that $1,000.00 would catch me up. Shortly afterwards, I received a letter stating that we refused the modification so I simply stopped making my payments and received my foreclosure papers. Shortly after that, I received another letter in the mail from BOA stating that I was not eligible for the modification. I had spoken to a lawyer about this and I was told that there is a loophole in the modification papers that I have to send in the amount that is stated. I did that but I just rounded it off. It is now November 25, 2011, I no longer live in my home and the BOA has yet to come lock it up or nothing. I did all the right steps and I still lost my home.
Reviewed Nov. 24, 2011
In February 2011, I contacted Bank of America (BA) to modify my current mortgage. After being passed from one department to another, I contacted a consumer counseling group NOVA. The NOVA rep was very supportive on the many attempts to speak to someone at BA. The reason BA doesn't want to speak to me, is I am current on my mortgage. In March 2011, NOVA escalated my case with BA to HAMP. I was finally directed to a Sherita ** with BA, who recommended I complete the online application for Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).
I provided all the detailed information requested. I was told this process could take two weeks. After 3 weeks, and no response to my application, I called Ms. ** She then stated BA would have to send me the package to complete. Two weeks later, the package arrived via FedEx (it was the same information I had provided them 4 weeks ago). I contacted my NOVA rep, they suggested I complete the information a second time and resubmit, which I did.
It sounds like they want you to get discouraged, and just give up. So I am waiting 2-3 weeks for this package to arrive, re-complete the forms and re-submit.It is now June 2011, I receive a call from Sherita **, informing me BA will not be able to modify my loan at this time. If I could, I would have rated them -5.
Reviewed Nov. 23, 2011
In 2009, Bank Of America repossessed my home in Carrollton, Texas. I originally had a Country Wide home loan that was taken over by BOA. In 2008, I was transferred from the Dallas area to Goliad. I was unable to sell my house and had to rent it for less than my payment, insurance, taxes and BOA dues. With the cost of moving buying a new home, I got behind on my payments but Country Wide was working with me and I was starting to catch up the payments. I received a letter from Bank of America about foreclosing my home. I called and talked to them about the payments I had been making and the young lady told me I should be okay, not to worry and just make the payments as I had been. My renting agent then called me to tell me that the tenant had received a notice that my house was in foreclosure. I called Bank of America to see what was going on and they verified what the tenant had told me. My house was to foreclose on October 1st.
When I called them, I asked what about the payments that I had made. They told me they would not accept partial payments and my payments had not been accepted because they were not the full amount owed. I researched and found that that Bank of America had returned electronically three payments that I had made with no explanation as to why. Bank of America told me I had to pay $15000 to save my house within one week. I was on the phone with them everyday. I would leave messages on whatever department they transferred me to and even went into the local Bank of America bank and asked for help since I was not making any progress with leaving messages.
The banker put me on the phone with a special department that allowed me to file emergency extension paperwork. This was the Thursday before my house was to be foreclosed on Monday morning. I was told that it would be processed and that it should be okay. I had a single mother living in my house and she was interested in buying my house. She contacted them about making a short sell and they had her fill out paperwork. In the end on October 1st, 2009, Bank of America foreclosed on my house. My paperwork that I had submitted and that she had submitted was never processed. When we called, we were just transferred to a department, left messages and no one ever returned calls.
I again went to the bank and was given another department. They told me in Texas there was nothing they could do once the house was foreclosed. The house still sits empty two years later. Daily I was lied to by the employees that were answering the phones in September 2009. Why am I filing the complaint now? Because I did not know that anything could be done until I saw on CNN that Bank Of America did this to masses of people and that is was being looked into so I am now researching and telling everyone I can to try and get my credit standing back. Please help me. I would even take my house back and start making payments again. I am in a better financial situation now and could easily do that.
Reviewed Nov. 22, 2011
My husband has been going through back surgery and only getting disability. The surgery has been rough. I wanted to make sure that my mortgage was paid, even though we were short on funds. So, instead of stashing the mortgage money in a separate account where I would end up using it for food or gas, I paid every bit I could towards our mortgage during the month. I was very, very careful to be certain that I made the full November payment on time.
I am advised to call, but go through a maze of numbers and transfers only to get hung up on several times. I have eight days to make a double mortgage payment. My husband is on disability. We are barely squeaking through. We made a good faith effort to be certain that BofA got their money, even though it was hard. Now, I can't make a double mortgage payment and BofA has stolen my initial mortgage payment.
Reviewed Nov. 22, 2011
I closed escrow on my townhome through a short sale on October 28, 2011. I had $1572.15 in my impound held at Bank of America, my mortgage company, to pay taxes. The Title Company determined that my taxes were $573.54. Now Bank of America says they get to keep the rest to satisfy part of the mortgage even though it is insured with Fannie Mae. They say the money will go to Fannie Mae. Is this allowed by law or regulation? I think the extra tax impound belongs to me. Who is right? I am waiting to appeal to State of California or Fannie Mae about this.
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2011
I have made several attempts with Litton Loan Servicing (Bank Of America), for assistance with my mortgage. I started in November of 2009, by calling and letting them know, that I had a major neck surgery, and was unable to make the payments, and asked them for help. The only thing that lady continued to ask is "when are we going to get our money". When I was able to return to work, I started trying to catch up on the mortgage payments.
Later I became unemployed, and took a job making considerably less money, and it wasn't enough to make those high payments. As of May 2011, they finally started asking me for information, for a loan modification. I supplied everything they asked for, and sent by fax and mail. Later, they sent me out a notice that I hadn't sent the documents to them. I called Litton Loan, and they said they needed our pay stubs. I faxed that information back to them right then. After waiting, we received letters stating that we were not going to lose our home.
In October of 2011 we received a notice that the loan was transferred to OWCEN loan servicing (still Bank of America). In the beginning of November 2011 OWCEN loan servicing sent us a letter stating that the pay stubs we sent were more than 90 days old when received, (that was incorrect as they were the most current at that time) and we needed to send them current pay,stubs by November 17, 2011, for the loan modification in which we complied.
On November 15, 2011 Bank Of America filed for foreclosure on our home. This has been a nightmare as we gave them all of the information they asked for, and we had asked several times for assistance. We had to file for bankruptcy protection in Jan 2010. I believe that we were victims of predatory lending in the very beginning, as we didn't know that the loan was an ARM loan until closing along with other things that took place.
Now it's November 20, 2011, and I know we are going to be served a foreclosure notice anytime now, and it doesn't seem fair that we contacted them before we even defaulted on the loan, due to hardship. I had to leave the low paying job, that I was driving 100 miles per day to work to, in order to be able to get into a higher paying job, to attempt to save our home from foreclosure. I am limited as to what I can do for work, due to my neck fusion, and back surgery. I want to keep my home, but they continue to give us the "run around", so to speak.
We want to pay for our home, but we have also been taken advantage of, as this was our first home purchase. Our payments have went up in this process after the bankruptcy with "discretionary charges", and we can't afford that payment. We were told when we purchased our home, that we had to do an 80/20 loan. What can be done about this situation to stop the foreclosure, as we can't afford what they are demanding.
Reviewed Nov. 20, 2011
I am in the situation where is millions of people are losing the houses. I have very bad experience with BOA and would like to share with you. You are the last chance to keep my house. My name Is Irina **. I was working for the airline I lost job last year in 2010. In June of 2010, I was not able to pay my mortgage. I did apply for loan modification with BOA in July of 2010. I am still on the modification process, it is 2011 November. This is was the issue with the BOA. On the 10.22.2011, I spoke with one of the supervisors name Tom **, and was advised that my documentation, which BOA lost, will be reinstated and I have to wait for Tom`s call on the 10/25/11. I told him that I am a flight attendant and will be oversee at that time he said that not his problem. I have to be at home and wait for his call. I didn't go to work, called off, before my flight and got fired. Now I have no job and BOA is not responding on my calls. BOA supervisor never called me. Please read all my story.
On the 22nd of October 2011. 15s month BOA were dragging my feet, from one over rider to another one. I spoke with 27 associates and 16 supervisors, no one is responsible for any thing BOA sent me by fed ex a final loan modification package. At that time I was oversee, I am a flight attendant, I spoke with Randy my last over rider and explained to him the situation .I did request send package to California, because I was between 1st and 5th at my base in LA. Randy said that he will send a package to Ca address, never did. Then I called him on the 28th of September and told him that package still not arrived. Randy told me that I have to send back documents by the 7th and provided his fax number 800-658-0395, I did fax it to him on the 4th of October, called him to confirmed, never get respond.
Then I start to call him every day and live a messages. Never get response. He said that he was off that's why he did not contact me. On the 11/02/11, I finally had a chance to find him and remind his conversation with me in September, that he told me to fax the documentation. He said he never did. I asked him who provide the number of the fax and his personal number, he said I did. His number is 877-445-9077 ext 31568. I asked him phone number to write complain of his negligence to his supervisor, he said does not have it.
On that day I told him that he lied to me and because of that my documentation got on wrong department and I got lost my modification. He gave me appeal department number which is designers company 800-666-6650. I called again and spoke with Pola s9688 id number, she refused to provide me correct number. Then I went at BOA branch spoke with Mr. **, he said that Mr. Kenneth **, Randy's supervisor will contact me. Never did.
On the 10/22/11, after speaking with 6 associates I got Tom Laslo, supervisor, who told me the I didn't send documentation on time, and I told him I have sent them twice on the 4th of October. After One hour he finally found my documentation and apologized that they sent to wrong department. He gave me his personal phone number which does not exist at all , lie again. The number is 207-866-5323 . He told me that he will help me and reinstate all my files. I was waiting for 2 weeks never get any body to contact me. Finally I called on the 11/02/11, I got the answer denied, because I didn't fax it documentation. I try to explain to James f2941, Larisa 8906, Evet 8934. One answer that I did not FedEx documentation, which Randy told me I don't have to on the 28 of September 2011.
I have all records of people I spoke with. Tom ** advised me to hang on the 25th of October and wait for his call. I did not show up to work called sick, no pay. The result is my loan is not approved and now one can tell me what to do next.
Mr.Obama, I need your help to keep my house. I am not going to give up. Bank of America has no respect to people. Evet 8934 supervisor told me that BOA has thousands of employee and they are not responsible for each other. Who does then?
Today is 11/04/11, I am continuing my investigation and try to find out the status of my modification. Called again spoke with Elma id 8625, she transferred me again to supervisor Casandra ID 2908. Casandtra has no idea what I am talking about. I asked her phone number of appeal department she gave me again some thing else 800-325-5399.
I asked to whom I can write a complain about Randy, over rider that his negligence is effected my life, my mortgage and my family, she said no one. I asked her to provide Randy`s supervisor information, she refused .
On the 11/02/11, I was at the BOA branch 2167 and spoke with Daniel **. He promised me that Randy`s supervisor will contact me in 24 hours. Today is 48 hours and Mr. Kenneth ** never called me. I called to a number 714-553-4470 provided by senior personal banker. The number on the business card is a personal number, not related to BOA. (that person was cursing on me that I did called 3 times and asked for BOA).
I did contact congresswoman in HI to help me. Maybe they will straight up BOA get billions of dollars from the government and screwing people lives. I do request to reinstate my loan I do attached to the letter and I am not going to accept the new modification which was added additional $100 to my mortgage, the total is $1198,previous was $1098.
11/04/ 11 I did contact Tel 704-386-5681. Spoke with Tedesha advocate of CEO of BOA she introduce her self as, she transferred me to Joshua **, customer advocate of BOA in DFW. Now I am waiting for calls from him to assign me to one of the management department. This is unacceptable. We do live in The United States of America.
Sir, please , I do request personally to look at my situation and help me. I do appreciate for your time and I do apologize to Congresswoman of HI Ms.**.
On November 2nd, I request your help with Bank of America. I had only hope that you can contact CEO of BOA. A little story what was happened this week from 14th to the 18th of November of 2011. I had message from Shary the CEO of president Monday 14th regarding my loan. The same day on Monday Mrs. ** called me and left me a massage with wrong ext.877-430-1431 ext.27651. (I do have recordered all conversation with BOA) It took me 4 hours to find a right ext. Every time I called BOA representative transferred me from one department to another. 5: 30 p.m Kelly employee #1114 after 30 min verification of my address and ssn, she told me that she will transfer me to the right person.
Shantay #** supervisor, can't provide right ext, can't figure out who left me a message.30 min. Again on the phone, then she said nothing she can do for me. I called back again spoke with Lina #4111, 30m minutes verification again and transferred me to another person who can't help me as well. I hung up again and called again. Got on the phone back #7111 finally she find for me right ext. for Thomson. She did verified that Thompson provide wrong ext. Its took me 4 hour on the cell phone to find a right ext.
I called to Thompson and left her a message that she is very negligence and that's why my loan got screwed by BOA. She never calls me back. On the 15th, I did contact Shary and requested to Thomson call me. She said she will , then 10 min later Shary said, Thompson can't call me I have to call her. I told her that she left wrong extension; this is not a first time when BOA representative lie and provide wrong numbers. I did call Thompson again on the 15th and left her a message to call me, she never did.
I called her on the 17th of November 2011 at 9 a.m e.t, Thompson said that she called me at 5; 45 E.T on the 16th , I never got message. I asked her what number she dialed; she gave me the number I never even heard of it. I asked Shary to investigate who put wrong number, she said she is not going to entertain me and investigate. I insist Thomson (have no idea who is she) to reinstate loan from October, she said no, because my documentation has not arrived on time. I did explained her over and over again that I was misinformed by my override Randy 877-445-9077 ex31568, she just apologized and said "no you have new contract and have to pay $1268. I told her my mortgage $1600 and I have left 24 years, I am not stupid to sign a contract for 40 years and pay $1268.
Also I told her that Thompson left me wrong extension, she just apologized. Also I didn't get any documentation about any offers. Because people at BOA like Randy my forth overrrider, like Ms. Thompson and 39 more names of associates and supervisors who mishandled me and millions of people loans if their behalf.
Reviewed Nov. 19, 2011
I bought my house in 2006. I was given a 1st and 2nd mortgage from New Century Mortgage Company. Then both mortgages was sold to Countrywide 3 months later. I noticed my mortgage payments increased $130.00 a month when Countrywide took over. When I called them, they said my settlement statement was incorrect and I either had to pay the additional money or vacate the property. Then my ID was stolen by Countrywide, shortly after I fell into hard times and then BAC home loans took over my loan. During my 1st loan modification, I kept a log of all calls and documents. It took 6 times of faxing my personal information and 2 years to complete the 1st loan modification at which BAC did not follow the government guidelines in which I have a copy of because I contacted the federal government and made multiple written complaints.
BAC went above the 90% loan to value rate and know I am still waiting on my 2nd modification. My BAC account manager Sadie ** with BAC took me out of the program stating that I did not return the Dodd-Frank Letter by date per requirement when BAC received the signed letter a week before it was actually due. Then once this happened, I started recording all calls to BAC and logging in notebook. Sadie stated that I would have to go through the process and start over. I have received refund checks from BAC at which Sadie says she does not know why, I am getting intent to foreclosure letters when I was told I was in the final stages of loan modification program and being lied to by BAC Sadie **. Her stating that loan modification paperwork was sent via Fedex to me and I did not return it. But yet she could not furnish a tracking number for this mailing. And when I called Fedex, they confirmed that no Fedex's had been scheduled for delivery to me from BAC.
She is saying that she has resent it one time and that if I do not get the documents back to her ASAP, I am out of the program. When I bought the house, it appraised at $209,000. I financed a $189,000 total between a 1st and actual 2nd mortgage. When BAC took over, they forced me to sign a letter changing my actual 2nd mortgage to a 2MP home equity line of credit. BAC stated in the letter that if I did not sign, I would not qualify for 2nd loan modification. This was last year (2010). Here it is 2011. And when they modified my 1st mortgage, BAC went by and the appraisal I had done that was a year old ($155,000) at the time my 1st mortgage was modified, my house was only worth $75,000. I have complied with BAC on all their requirement and requests to find out that they are trying to force me into foreclosure. I have documentation from other people that I have collected from realtors showing BAC lack of response and trying to force others into foreclosure. I do not want to lose my house and want to make sure BAC is following the guidelines.
Per what documentation I have, BAC is double-dipping, they are collecting from me the full balance of the loan plus additional money from the government. Per the government program I am in, the 2nd mortgage should have been wrote off and included in bailout funding. BAC's Sadie ** is trying to cover up her mistake by lying to me over the phone and cause me to go into foreclosure. I have written to the President, Florida State Senator, Channel 2 news, Michael Moore (his producer called me to be on a show because I sent him a copy of the information I have) and the federal banking commission. This is the 3 years now that I have been going through and I am tired. No one at BAC likes to return calls, and when they do, they call the incorrect number plus they have no answers, only delay tactics, and since I have an account manager, I am not allowed to get help from any other BAC representative, only Sadie **.
Reviewed Nov. 19, 2011
We were set up with a loan modification under Countrywide. It was a done deal. When BofA took over, they told us that our modification was null and void but they had a program in place of that. If we qualified with Countrywide, we'd for sure qualify with BofA. We went through the process of filling out the paperwork and then we were declined, of course and that was 2008. Since then, we've tried 4 more times to get a modification on our mortgage and have been declined every single time.
I took to the internet recently and started a petition on **** and started a movement on my blog **** and called it Battling the Banks. When I got onto Twitter, I was re-tweeted so many times that I reached close to 1 million people. BofA called us within a couple hours to let us know that our file has gone directly to the Advocate for the President and will be handled directly through them. What does that mean? Absolutely nothing. More paperwork and no promises. In my opinion, all it is, bigger mirrors and more smoke. But, we shall see.
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2011
We purchased our house in 2007 with a simple 30 year fixed rate mortgage. Our rate was high because I did not exist in the credit world. This year, we suffered hardship, a loss of income, and tried to get a Making Home Affordable modification through Bank of America. We were told we were approved and would need to go through a trial payment period, which was $400 more than the current mortgage amount due to the addition of an escrow account.
In May 2011, we realized this wasn't for us, and decided to send a letter declining the modification and for our mortgage payments to return to the original amount. In August 2011, the Bank stated we were late on our August mortgage, simply because we did not pay the escrow. Fortunately for us, we have our payments deducted automatically from our account monthly. In September 2011, I called to find out about a "partial payment account" which had over $5,000 dollars in it, only to be told since we didn't pay the full amount, including escrow, it was placed there and would eventually be returned.
I authorized the BOA employee to remove all funds from that account, apply it to the mortgage and paid over $800 in escrow and late fees. By the end of the conversation, I was told I had a "zero coupon." After many heated phone calls to my modification representative, I am now being told I owe money from March, and if I don't pay that by December 5th, they will start foreclosure proceedings on my home. Today (11/18/11), I received a check from the Bank which is in the amount of our October mortgage payment because it wasn't the full amount. I have hired a credit repair specialist, and a mortgage advocate to help me refinance through the VA (my husband is a war vet).
BOA has wrecked my credit, and is starting to wreck my personal life. I don't know where to turn, or who else to speak with. We live on a city employees salary and don't have the money to pay all these fees. BOA is by far the worst bank under the sun. They absolutely have no customer service skills, or for that matter, care about their customers. I am on the verge of losing my house, and my credit is being demolished. I have two small children, where will we go?
P.S. All this should have been resolved back in May when I declined the modification. Even the mod rep stated the escrow should have been removed from my payments and everything should have gone back to the way things were before. I tried to help our family by requesting a way to lessen the mortgage burden, only to be stuck into the bowels of hell.
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2011
As a father of four small children, I always worked hard to provide a stable home for my family. This proved to be one of the toughest battles of my life. As most Americans, we were striving for the dream of being a business owner and paying off our home. My wife and I started a couple businesses and were well on our way of achieving the American dream. It seems like out of nowhere the economy crashed and we were forced to close our businesses. We went from making a decent living to struggling to survive. Nevertheless, we wanted to honor our commitments to our creditors the best we could, and that included our mortgage. I went back to managing at a local grocery store and my wife found work as a teeth whitening technician.
Times were tough but we were tougher. My wife's company downsized and she lost the teeth whitening job. I started a 2nd job working for a maintenance company and later got a job working in a bakery as a pastry chief. I was working so much that I would sometimes just change in the car for my next job. I shaved in gas stations as well as brushed my teeth and washed my hair. No matter what, I did my best to provide for my family. After a while, my body started to fall apart. First, my back went out and later I ripped the labrum in my shoulder. I had to get surgery on the shoulder and could not work my two other part time jobs. I did however keep my full time job.
We started to fall behind on our mortgage and I was trying to work with the lender on a plan that would work for everyone. After 30 or more phone calls and endless hours on the phone, the property was going to the sheriff sale and I could not stop it. I contacted Lutheran social services in St. Cloud and they put me into contact with the attorney general. During that time, Amber **, an attorney in the cities, contacted Tom Lyden from Fox news and asked him to do a story on our foreclosure. Tom came to the house. While interviewing my wife and I, the phone rang. It was the attorney general's office. They had contacted my lender and got the lender to postpone the sheriff sale for now. Tom called my lender as well and asked them if they wanted to comment on the situation. The lender refused but what happened next was crazy.
I was now at work when my cell phone rang. I looked at the number and it was an out of state area code. I quickly answered it and it was my lender. Within minutes of the conversation, my lender redid the loan and was sending out the loan documents to be signed and returned. The question I had was why they would not help me during any of the 30 phone calls that I made prior? I was told that they could not help our family. This just shows that you have to do whatever you can if you want to save your home. The next day, I took my four children down to the state capital to help try to get a mortgage reform bill passed by Gov. Pawlenty. It would have prevented more than 12,000 foreclosures just in Minnesota. He vetoed the bill and those families lost their home.
Things were going as planned. But now my wife was in school, full time working toward a degree for dental hygiene. I am working nights and being available for my children during the day. I went back to school for a major in occupational behavior and a minor in psychology, as well as business. Our schedule is packed with getting the kids to school, my full time job, my wife in school full time, my school and just the daily battle of life. We are running all the time but we make it work.
On December 10th, 2010, I received a certified letter from my mortgage lender. It states that if I don't send them a check for $567.15, they will accelerate my 2nd mortgage and foreclose on our home. The problem was I did not ever miss a payment. My first and second mortgage were both paid and I have the cancelled checks to prove it. I called Bank of America and was on the phone for 52 minutes. I was transferred several times and no one could tell me what the charges were for. Two different customer\ service reps told me that the system just sends letters out sometimes and they really don't know what they are for. I was irate. I worked so hard to save our home and a system error was going to put our home into foreclosure. I did not have the extra money because our mortgage takes three of my four paychecks. I can’t sell the home because it is worth $125k less than I owe. I want to honor my commitment to the bank, but I need them to cooperate as well.
On 12/30/2010 at 1:15 pm, I received a call from Stella from Bank of America. She said that the notice was sent in error and the account is current. I requested that a letter be sent stating that the account is current and no foreclosure proceedings have started. She agreed to send the letter. For the record, she called in response to the complaint filed with the OCC. Their contact information is on the next page of this website. The OCC was fast to act, as well as the attorney general's office here in Minnesota. The organizations are on your side and will do the best they can, so please use them.
I only thought I was done. This is the continuation of the issue. I sent this letter to Geneva **, Operations Analyst at Bank of America’s Home Retention Customer Service Relations: “Thank you for contacting me in regards to the conversation on 12-30-2010 at 1:15 pm CST. During this conversation we discussed a certified letter that I received from Bank of America on December 10th, 2010. I stated I needed to pay $567.15 by Jan 2nd, 2010. Bank of America would accelerate my 2nd mortgage and start foreclosure on my home. We also discussed the complaint that I filed with the 0CC and the attorney general of the state of Minnesota. After 52 minutes on the phone with customer service for Bank of America, I was told that this was a mistake and sometimes the system just sends bills to customers. I was told that they did not know why I received the bill even after being transferred several times to different departments.”
“After I explained this to Stella, Stella stated that she would send out a letter stating that this was an error and that foreclosure proceedings have ceased. I never received the letter. I did however receive a letter stating that the credit agencies would be contacted to correct the mistake by Bank of America. I also received a letter stating that the amount that I sent as my 2nd mortgage payment, $189.05, was less than the total needed to bring the loan to date. And ‘if the amount due is not received by the specified due date, foreclosure proceedings may begin or continue’. So even after our conversation, I received 30 plus calls from Bank of America's customer service department who has no idea why I owe the extra money that was just billed in November 2010. Up until that point, I had no notices for the $567.15. All payments on my mortgage were current and the checks cleared my account.”
“The FedEx letter that I received today, 02-14-2011, stated that, ‘The following checked items are required (but no items were checked).’ The contact number in the letter that says I can contact you directly at ** does not go to your desk and went to a Nia **’s voice mail. It stated, ‘I will be out of the office from December 24th and returning on Jan 3.’ Today's date is 02-14-2011. So, for 41 days, the voicemail goes to the wrong person and is not managed even to the point of updating the date.”
“Ms. **, I will make this short and to the point. I have tried tirelessly to keep my commitment to Bank of America. I had at one point worked three jobs and ruined my back and shoulder. I had surgery and continued to work and make my payments on time according to Bank of America's own monthly statements. All the modification documents have been late by months (according to the documents themselves). And I continued to make the payments even if I had to copy old statements, because new statements did not come for months at a time. I have recorded and documented every conversation and took complete notes. I studied the mortgage laws and modification laws, as well as FDCPA laws. I work hard to do the right thing, but Bank of America has made it almost impossible.”
“I created a website for Bank of America customers to express their concerns and displeasure. To date, I have over 1000 documented cases that violate state and federal regulations. I am very concerned about the way Bank of America does business. And I am working with the press, as well as local and federal agencies to stop the poor business practices. At this point, I am requesting no further contact by phone and any contact needs to come by mail only. Bank of America is a creditor so the FDCPA does apply. I will continue to make my payments on time but if you foreclose, I will file bankruptcy and protect my home and my family. I have an attorney that you may contact for a potential bankruptcy petition. The firm is Curtis K. Walker at 4356 Nicollet Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55409-2033. The phone number 612-824-4357. I have retained them with an $1850.00 payment and I will await Bank of America's decision.”
“In addition, this home was just assessed at $224k as of 2011. The sale would not even cover the first mortgage. I am willing to pay the agreed amount on the mortgage documents of over $350k and honor my commitment. Any further harassment by Bank of America will cause a problem that will make the mortgage crisis look like losing a hot dog stand. I promise I will spend the rest of my life making sure that no one else gets hurt by Bank of America, unless I am left alone to live in peace with my family. If I am left alone, I will leave the Bank of America alone. Like I said, ‘all further contact must be done by mail only.’ The ball is in Bank of America's court so do the right thing.”
This is the continuation of the FedEx letters coming to my house. This is a continuation of the documentation to and from bank of America: “On 02/17/2011, I received a letter from Daniel ** of FedEx. It stated that he has tried to contact me but was unsuccessful. I called the number on the letter and got someone else’s mail box. This is the same thing that happened when I called the number on Geneva **’s letter. The number on the letter was **. I got Nia **’s voice mail that stated she would be out of the office from December 24th to Jan 3rd. I called on the 14th of Feb. I had a message on voice mail from Cecilia. I called the number she gave me and got Geneva **’s voice mail. I had another voice mail from Tiffany from ** ext. ** and received a voice mail message. I was given several numbers to call on voice mails from **, Geneva’s supervisor to Crystal ** ext. ** and then Robert ** ext. ** and then Carla at **.”
“As you can imagine, I have no idea who to call. And when I do call, Bank of America has no idea why I was billed in November for $567.15. I was told three times by three different employees that the billing was a mistake. All conversations I recorded. My question is, how many home owners has Bank of America done this to? People are losing their home. And they are getting the runaround with threatening letters, dishonest conversations from the bank, and several numbers to call that go everywhere but to the person that the letters from B of A say they should go to. Now, Bank of America is putting my pay for performance incentive at risk by charging me by mistake and causing an on time account to get 30 and 60 days late.”
“I will forward all of this to the OCC and attorney general, as well as my personal attorney and the dozen of attorneys ready to take this case to the most extreme level Bank of America has ever seen. Or, you can leave me alone to make my payments and I will honor the commitment. It is Bank of America’s choice. I am now up to 1067 filed complaints against B of A on my personal website. I am about to launch 20 more sites and pile them on Facebook ads, as well as Google ad words, Yahoo, and every other channel on the internet. Or, you can leave me alone and let me make my payments. Are you starting to understand how this works?”
I have received three more FedEx letters that stated that I was unable to make my mortgage payments and that the information that they requested was never received. The issue is that all payments are current and have cleared my account. I never requested assistance on making the payments. I was only asking why I was billed the $567.15 in the first place. To date, I still do not have an answer. I paid the fee for whatever it was and will be filing a lawsuit in the 5th district court of Sherburne County. So, that is my story. I am just a person trying to support a family and keep my home. I don't understand why a bank would want to foreclose on a home, that they will take a huge loss on and that all mortgage payments are current. Since then, I have been continually harassed by the bank and may end up losing our home. It is sad but I feel like I have done all I can do for my family and we need to move on.
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2011
Poor! I have a current mortgage with BA, and applied in June 2011 to re-financed and paid them $400. I also paid off another BA mortgage a couple of years ago. The first person who handled the loan dropped the ball, and It had to be refilled. After submitting all the paperwork that they asked for, every two or three weeks, they keep asking for unnecessary documents (some of which I never had or seen), and continued to not process the loan. This is for a re-finance loan that I am already paying the mortgage to BA with a good credit history.
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2011
We have paid our Oct & Nov 2011 payments and BofA is stating they have not received our payments. Now we received a letter informing us about foreclosure. On our bank statement, it shows the payments were received by BofA. We have spoken to four different reps and on one knows where the funds went. They sold our loan to Nationstar Mortgage. They added our property taxes to a new escrow account without our consent. There is no help from BofA, no answers. No one seems to know what is going on nor do they care. We don't want to lose our house. We don't owe them any late payments. We need to know where our money is. Help
Reviewed Nov. 17, 2011
Stars for what? Being all over the news? I will keep this brief. I applied for a loan modification 4 months ago. Paperwork was submitted and confirmed receipt by my modification rep. The next week, I get a request for the same information. I call, they say they do not have but I call my modification rep and he says they do and he was going to tell them not to contact me anymore. This happens 3 more times and then I told that it is an automatic mailing requesting the same information? I get upset and ask for a supervisor who also informs me all paperwork is in order, we were waiting for the quit claim deed.
Out of the blue, I get an email from the supervisor saying I have a new modification rep. I cannot reach her. Three weeks later, I get a letter saying I yet have another rep. I email her to confirm paperwork is still in order. She asks me to call, we miss each other. I email her to confirm the paperwork is still in order. She writes back saying she does not how I got her email and that BA policy is not to communicate about modifications via email. Meanwhile, I have 32 emails from a rep and supervisor openly discussing my loan. The letter sent had her email.
I had a friend who is versed in this try to find the policy stating that modifications cannot be discussed via email and he has yet to find one. Now if this is the case, my privacy has been breached by other BA people discussing my modification via email and if the policy cannot be found, then this new rep lied. Three times I have asked for verification, 3 times I am blown off. Paperwork and private paperwork has been told to me it is not there (via email) then someone else (via email) details every document I sent as being received. This bank is so messed up, I do not know who has my private information.I have been treated with disrespect, I have been accused of lying, and I have been told I am getting the modification. I am at the point of just refinancing with a new bank that does not have as many alleged illegal practices against them.
This is a very scary situation, each person who does business with this bank truly needs to watch out for their security. There are too many things alleged illegal stuff, this bank is being sued for it to be right. Countrywide sold my loan to them. Please proceed with caution, I will comment my first modification rep Clint was good. The supervisor David and the latest rep, Elizabeth, I feel now they broke some laws by emailing me which I not let slide. Please hire an attorney if you get crossed signals about policy. You identity could be at stake.
Reviewed Nov. 16, 2011
If I could rate it a negative, I would. Bank of America purchased my loan from Countrywide Insurance. I had my loan set up to pay my own taxes and insurance. I pay my mortgage every month through bill pay. I have a set rate for 30 years with no adjustable payment, simply the same rate for 30 years. I rarely look at my statements because I know that my payment doesn't change. Back in Sept. 2011, I happened to open a statement and it said that my mortgage was over $1,000 plus. I called to see why and was told that it was for my negative escrow account. I explained that I pay my own taxes and insurance, and this is how my original loan was set up. Not to mention, I had this same problem last year where they paid my taxes and increased my mortgage. I found out after applying for credit, they told me that my mortgage was 6 months late. After getting this straightened out (my credit reversed), I never thought this would happen again.
Getting back to what happened this year, apparently there was a bill for the police department coming to my house due to my alarm system going off, which I knew nothing about. The company that I was using had a faulty system in my house, which has been removed. BOA told me that there was a lien being filed from the police station that had to be paid, to stop my house from going to tax sale. I had not received any notification that a lien was being filed, nor did I receive anything about a tax sale. I can totally understand that I needed to pay them back the $450.42. But they also paid my property taxes, which weren't even due, nor were they late. Now, it shows that I owe a balance of $1254.21 in escrow charges.
When I called BOA, the gentleman said that he was going to file a dispute about my taxes being paid and someone would get back to me, which never happened. I received a call today from BOA at my place of employment saying that I am two months late on my mortgage and my mortgage went up. I have never been late on my mortgage! BOA had no right to pay my taxes. They were not late, nor were they due. This was not causing any threat to my property. My taxes were not set up to be paid by Countrywide, nor did I set it up that way with Bank of America. My mortgage payment is paid in full every month. My credit is far too important to pay anything late. BOA told me today that my payment was reported late last month because I have a negative escrow account. Again, I paid my mortgage on time! They have added additional amounts to my monthly payment to cover the taxes that they had no right to pay. And once again, they are reporting my mortgage payment late to the credit bureau.
I offered to overnight them a check for the amount that they paid for my taxes. But I wanted my credit report fixed for the month that they showed it late. When I spoke to the person in Sept., he assured me that this would not happen and that they would get back to me to resolve things. I asked to speak to a manager today, Shantel **, who had no interest at all in trying to help get this resolved. She even admitted that the dispute was rejected because the BOA person that I spoke to filed it as a tax dispute, so no one ever followed up on it.
I explained that I am going to check with a lawyer to see if they could legally pay my taxes when they weren't late, or even due. The explanation that she read to me didn't explain why my taxes had to be paid. She could clearly see that I have never paid my mortgage late and that this was just a mix up that I was trying to straighten out. My credit is extremely important to me and I want it reversed! BOA does not care one bit about their customers! I don't even see why Shantel ** is a manager! I am seeking legal advice about filing a lawsuit.
Reviewed Nov. 16, 2011
I have had my house since April 2001. Last year, I was finally able to get out of a 22 year very abusive marriage with my life. While the divorce was going on neither me nor my now ex-husband could live in it. So I kept up the payments on the house and rent on an apartment.
March of 2011, I got put to part-time and I was no longer able to make the house payment and the apartment rent along with the car payment that I now had since my ex-husband got both vehicles. I have not made a house payment since March of 2011. On April 2011, I received a FedEx package with the Home Affordable Modification Program application. I filled out the application, attached the documentation that they requested and sent it back to Bank of America overnight. Well, it has now been seven months with weekly calls that I make because they do not know how to make outgoing calls, resending paperwork after paperwork either fax or FedEx and I find out last Friday, November 11, 2011, that my house is on the Tulsa County Sheriffs Sale list with a sale date of December 6, 2011.
Every time I have spoken to someone at BoA, they have assured me that as long as I am working with the bank that my house will not be sold. I have spoken to 31 different people since June 1, 2011. I have either faxed or sent over 50 pages of information through FedEx. One week I called, I get told they have everything and it is in review. The next week I called, they don’t have anything on file. The next week I called, they need more information and then the run around starts all over again.
My divorce was granted in May 2011. I was finally able to move back into the house that I have paid on for 10 years. It was my first house and I love the house and neighborhood. In June 2011, I’m so excited because I am thinking/hoping that I am going to get to keep my house and make changes to it and improvements because BoA keeps telling me that as long as I am working with them, then my house wont be sold. I was put back to full-time on August 1, 2011 and I called the bank and told them that I could start making payments again and was told not to do that because that will confuse the process. So now, I am nine months behind and have been working with BoA the whole time and I am still going to lose my house.
If I can find an attorney to take my case, I will gladly sue Bank of America. I will never, ever use them again for anything. I will tell everyone I know what crooks and liars they are. Should I lose my house which I probably will and I do go to buy another one, I will not go through BoA even if they are the last loan company on earth. I would rather rent for the rest of my life than deal with them again for anything or on anything.
Reviewed Nov. 16, 2011
We were behind on the mortgage payment then people started coming to the house to see if we still lived there. They took pictures and basically harassed each month. One month was so bad the person who came to the house called us dead beats and losers. We contacted BOA, nothing. They cared less. At that point we got money from extra work, called BOA for the total of all money owed, payments, and late fees. We told them we would make three equal payments to get current, which we did. Each month was a hassle to make the strange amount payments as they did not fit into the walk into bank's computer boxes. They only have payment, principal or late fees.
Here comes the problem: some four months later of paying on time, fees start appearing on the statement. Titled fees. No one inside the bank can tell us what those fees are for. No one on the phone can tell us what those fees are for. Our statement shows regular payment and some extra $700 for fees. They call daily for those fees, we keep asking what they are for.
One day finally someone said those fees were for when people came to the house to take pictures and see if we still lived there. Now those people got paid $15 per house to harass me but I have to pay BOA 150 for each time. How does this work? Any one else have those fees? Did you ever have someone just show up to see if you still lived in the house while making a payment each month?
Reviewed Nov. 15, 2011
We started a home loan on August 15, 2011 for a second home on the coast. We had been pre-approved by BofA. We were buying an REO from BofA. We had a 30-day escrow and were supposed to close on September 26th. On September 22nd, we were told that we were under B of A's new mortgage review program and this process was going to help them stay under the 6% Federal failure rate. We were told it would close in under 30 days and everything looked good. We had to write many more letters of issues, one being a letter of explanation of why Bank of America did a credit check for a home mortgage on August 8, 2011. Really, you want me to write you a letter on why you did a credit check?
We were told at the beginning of October that our loan was in queue with the underwriter. At the end of October, we were told it was under review with the 3rd underwriter. For the past two weeks, it has been in queue with the final review committee. Our mortgage rep cannot get a response from the processors or their managers. She has requested that I do the calling and maybe that would help the process. All of our banking is with B of A. We have Merrill Lynch accounts. Our two credit cards are with B of A and we should have been the role model client. It has made me aware that I have too much under the mothership of B of A. There isn't any cohesiveness with technology within B of A. We are still waiting to hear where the loan is at 90 days later.
Reviewed Nov. 15, 2011
We have bought our house in 2007 with a $400,000.00 down. Last year, we have experienced several circumstances of hardship, therefore we've applied for a modification request. It's been almost 18 months since that was in process. We feel defrauded and scammed by Saxton (BofA). Our loan was owned by BofA then got transferred to Saxon Mortgage, but still falls under BofA. NACA is our advocate in this case. For a very long time, we couldn't get an answer from Saxon, as far as knowing the status of our modification request. Keeping in mind we worked hard, and in a timely matter with Saxon (BofA) in providing all the documents they requested. We were not getting any answers until we got Congressman Brad ** and NACA involved.
We then received an e-mail stating that, our modification has been denied due to not having enough income, but according to NACA we fall under the guidelines of qualifying for a modification. Two months later we finally received a letter in the mail stating since we did not provide documents per Saxon's request they are denying our mod. request. Earlier last week, I have spoken to our processor. George ** is his name which was given to me by Saxon's customer rep, but when I spoke to the processor, he refused to provide me with his last name, and said his name is "Horje". Anyway, he told me that the house will not go into foreclosure unless I provide him with current pay stubs, current hardship letter, current NACA Budget List, and 3 months of bank statements.
Later that week, Saturday evening November 12, we have gathered all the documents, and faxed it to NACA and Saxon. I made a note on the fax cover letter for NACA to provide me with a current Budget List, after reviewing the current pay stubs, and other current docs. Sunday morning I received an e-mail from NACA, that the processor has sent us a proposal via NACA's web file, and their proposal is for us to pay $3,968.00 monthly.
In other words almost a thousand dollars of increase than our original monthly mortgage ($3,200. I though it was a typo so, Monday morning I contacted NACA,but they were closed, so I contacted George Espinosa aka "Horje" to see if he received the fax, and see if there was some sort of typo with the proposal. I told him since we can't afford $3,200 of monthly payment, why did we get an increase of almost a thousand dollars, and what makes you think that we can afford to pay $4,000 of monthly payments. He said that's what BofA wanted. Then later on, during the conversation he mentions to me that on Sunday, he went to work and received the fax that I have sent him, and based on that, he made his decision (and not the BofA). I could not get a straight answer. Then after hanging up the phone with him I realized that he made his decision based on only 3 documents. The 4 that he has requested for (NACA's Budget List) was not included.
I have a feeling they did not thoroughly looked into my file. They have asked for Budget List in order to make a decision based upon that along with other documents, and failed to do so. I need to escalate this matter to a higher authority, and have them file a thorough investigation. The bank is scamming, lying, and victimizing us. There is something fraudulent going on for sure! Their stories don't make sense. Learning from the media and internet, I am not the only person going through this modification request nightmare.It has spread like a disease nationwide.
We are all humans! We all have rights! There is a law that should protect us. The banks have no right to steal our house from us. My wife and I worked a lifetime to buy this house, and now they want to take this away from me. It's not my fault that the delinquency of the mortgage payments have gone so far. The banks have been procrastinating our mod loan. Please help! I will do everything I can in my power to keep my home. We need your help. Thanks to organizations like yours, we can get some help. These banks have no right to do what they want, just because they have more money than we do.
Reviewed Nov. 15, 2011
I sent mortgage payment on 10/28/11, the same payment for over two years. On 11/14/11, I received check from Bank of America in the amount of mortgage payment.
I called and rep said payment went up $15. I told the rep I would mail another check tomorrow. Rep said I needed to do it over the phone to avoid late fee. I gave rep my bank information. I was told that there would be a $15 transaction phone fee. I told rep to take a flying leap and that if I did get a late charge I would come to the location and deliver it in person.
I did not receive notification about raise in payment. My check took 3 days to get to Bank of America. They held it for 3 days and cashed it on the 4th day and mailed the Bank of America check on 11. I did not receive Bank of America check until 11/14/11. I checked my escrow and taxes went down $1,000.00 for 2011. Homeowner insurance went down $289.00. I cannot get an answer as to why my payment went up and the rep will not give me a name to deliver my late charge in person. Did I mention that my loan was purchased by Bank of America? I purposely got my mortgage through another institution because Bank of America has always sucked. BTW, I have excellent credit and have never been late. This stuff is illegal or at best extremely unethical!
Reviewed Nov. 13, 2011
We have been trying to get a home modification loan through BOA. They keep jerking us around. We have been giving them the necessary paper work to them three times. We are promised that we will only deal with one home loan manager. We wait to hear back from Freddy ** or Fanny **, and when we call them back, a new account manager is assigned to us, and then they say we don't have all the paper work needed.
We tell them the last two account managers told us the same things, and everything was together, and in order, but now, Veronica, our account manager, wants more bank statements, when we have provided them three different times. She tells us that the ones we gave are expired now! That's not our fault or problem. Its a circle of **, that I have read online, that could go for two and a half years! I need to know what to do, and where to find a good lawyer, at Bank of America's cost if all possible. I wasted time, got frustrated and sick of the lying. I could possibly lose my house, because they want to play games.
Reviewed Nov. 12, 2011
In February 2010, our mortgage was sold over from First Franklin Financial to Bank of America (BA) Home Loans. In 2009, we hired a broker to modify our arm 80/20 loan and our monthly payment had been reduced, or so we thought it had been. When the loan was sold to BA, we had to contact them to find out when to start paying them, and not First Franklin. It took them a month to gather and finalize all the paperwork and determine that, yes, they were now our new mortgage company. We started receiving statements from them and continued to pay the same amount that we had been paying First Franklin.
In June 2011, we received a letter from Carrington mortgage (part of BA) stating that we were being sent to collections for not paying on our second mortgage. We were very confused because we were under the impression that the modification included the second mortgage. When we called BA and starting asking questions, they had no answers for us. We asked if we had an existing second mortgage, why is that they had gone over a year without notifying us that we were behind. No one had any answers for us and we were sent from person to person. From March 2010 to May 2011, we had not received any notice or statement from BA for the second mortgage. We then started receiving calls from the collection agency and did not know how to proceed. We had our credit reviewed to find out if it had been affected by the non-payment, and no where on our credit history did it state that we were delinquent on our mortgage.
After weeks of phone calls to BA and no responses, and several calls from the collections agency attempting to collect a settlement of 25,000 dollars that we did not have, we decided to short sale the property because we felt we had no other options. The property has a current offer and the investors are awaiting response from BA. We, on the other hand, are now looking for a rental property.
Reviewed Nov. 11, 2011
Within the last 6 months, we completed a trial program with Bank of America to reduce our mortgage payment and avoid foreclosure. We were told we completed the program and told the amount we were paying would be our new mortgage payment. When it came time to make the first payment "out of the trial period", we called them to make sure we should just continue making it as we had been. We didn't receive any paperwork as to how to keep making our new payment now that we were finished in the trial period and didn't want to mess anything up. We continued to make monetary, personal, and business decisions based on this new house payment, so we could move forward in life. We had previously filed personal and professional bankruptcy and were discharged. Our small business of 20 plus years my husband and I have owned has taken severe hits in the economy crash. And we are trying to restructure everything.
About a week ago, we received a letter in the mail from Bank of America stating we failed the program and our house will be slated for foreclosure, and we have 30 days to "appeal" this decision. I was absolutely stunned and certain it was a mistake. Throughout this almost 3 year process, they had sent us other people's paperwork accidentally a few times, to which we would call and send it back, making sure we were still okay and on track with everything on our own mortgage.
Since receiving this failure letter, my husband and I have placed what were probably hundreds of calls all going to voice mail and none ever being returned. He finally had an idea to call their corporate office on Wall Street. They were surprised to receive a call like this. Of course, they routed us right back to where we were getting nowhere. They were slightly more helpful in suggesting we report the person who wasn't getting back to us, giving us other names of people to call that were above him and leave messages as well, which we did.
Then, what a shock! Our "loan modification supervisor" finally returned a call back to us after that, only to say they "had been sick" and they were extremely backed up and would get to us when they could. They were using words like "don't worry". But as stated in the letter, we have a 30-day deadline before our house changes status to foreclosing. They had no answer for that. They have no answer as to what we should do. They have no answer except "don't worry". Why should we worry that we received a letter stating our home is going to go into foreclosure? I started looking around online out of absolute frustration. I found this website and I see thousands of people going through the same/similar problems as we are, regarding their home loans with Bank of America.
We have done nothing wrong. We have all proof of payments made, all paperwork from this almost 3-year period. I am living in a psychologically inhumane state when I allow myself to think about it, to have no place to help yourself, no recourse, to be completely ignored and threatened, with no way to fight back. Bank of America has become unreachable again. I’m not surprised there. One person we had managed to pry some information out of previously stated that our plan might be messed up because our last payment posted one day early, making it look like we made 2 payments in one month. It would take us out of the program we completed, because we can "afford" to pay more. We have no control over when a payment posts.
I have trouble believing this, especially after reading all the posts here. It is time to do something. There are way too many people here for this to go unnoticed. While feeling very helpless, I am going to do everything within my power to keep my home. We don't want to lose it. We literally live paycheck-to-paycheck and have nowhere to go. And our credit is destroyed. Not that it matters any, but our home was a 2-year vacant wreck that we fixed up ourselves, for over 2 years. We invested a lot of money in and it's more than "just a house". We have to do something.
Reviewed Nov. 11, 2011
They rate a big fat zero. It all started with trying to refinance my home. My broker asked for a pay off but the pay off said I was behind a payment. I called and I was not behind a payment. Because of the SCRA program, there seemed to be a $17 discrepancy. So I agreed to pay the $17 and have them send a corrected payoff notice. They proceeded to take out $2604 from my account, wiping it out completely and leaving my account negative 200. I spent 2.5 hours on the phone clearing it up. it seemed to be a clerical error. The process to reverse the money was to take 24-48 hours. After 48 hours, it was still not done and we were upon the Veterans' Day weekend. If it was completed the approval process on Monday would take an additional 24-48 hours to get the money back. This is leaving me broke and unable to close on my refinance.
Reviewed Nov. 11, 2011
In 2009, my mortgage with the Country Wide Home Lender company was automatically switched to Bank of America regrading our property at ** **, FL 34758. At the time and previous to this, the mortgage was in good standing meaning I was never late with any payments ensuring they were always on time. Since the start of the mortgage, I have paid property taxes and home owner's insurance separately from the mortgage. Five months ago, Bank of America abandoned my mortgage by not cashing the checks. One check was held and the others continue to be returned to me. After receiving the first returned check, I started to send the following checks through certified mail.
My wife and I have tried to resolve the matter through various phone calls as well as in person but to no avail. For this reason, I am asking for your help and support in this matter as I do not know where else to turn. I have attached the certified mail confirmations and the copies of each returned check with each document. Due to this issue, Bank of America has threatened to put my home in foreclosure with no valid reason. I would like to have this situation resolved whether with Bank of America or with another lender at no cost to me. I simply want my mortgage to stay on track. I thank you in advance for your support in helping me in any way you can with this matter.
Reviewed Nov. 11, 2011
Incredible! I could put my name at the bottom of most of these complaints but I will add mine to the list. I lost my job, fell behind on my payments, got another job and started making more than my usual mortgage payment. I did this for over half a year (2010) and all checks were cashed. In Oct. 2010 Bank of America notified me that I qualified for a mod.
I signed and notarized all papers and was told to begin making the mod payment, which I did till June 2011 when my check was sent back and I was informed that I owed a large amount and I was in foreclosure. Since then, the same nefarious practices that others have recounted (rep runaround, escalation (ha!), mystery fees, incessant phone calls, etc...) have happened to me.
I've hired a lawyer which I really can't afford, when all I wanted to do was keep my house that I have poured a lot of money and blood, sweat and tears into. Good luck everybody.
Reviewed Nov. 10, 2011
I would give them no stars! Last Nov. 2010, I applied for modification since BoA decided to escrow my real estate taxes while we were in the process of getting them abated. This caused my monthly mortgage payment to double from the original. I am disabled and on a fixed income and cannot afford the increase. So, I was told to file for modification, and that the program was designed exactly for people like me. I filed for modification. The first time, they kept losing paperwork. The second time, I called weekly to check on the status to hear for a year that it is in review and I should have an answer soon. They told me not to pay my regular payments and that they would give me a new payment amount. That never happened. And I never stopped paying my old monthly amount on time.
Since it didn't match what the new monthly mortgage payment was, they refused to apply any of my payments for months. They called constantly saying I was past due and they were going to foreclose. I finally had enough and contacted in Oct. Better Business Bureau. Three days later, I got a call from a representative that the modification was denied in July 2011. Not only was I not informed, for the months of July-October when I called weekly to check the status, everyone told me the modification was still in review and I should have an answer soon. Two days after being told it was denied, I got message from another BoA representative saying to please be patient, and that the modification was still in review. I received a direct contact person that I should contact and who will handle everything and will "work" with me to find a solution so I can keep my house.
I called and left a message. Her voicemail said she would call back in a day and if she doesn't, please contact her supervisor. His voicemail stated that he would call back in a day. It has been 3 weeks, numerous phone calls and I still have yet to hear back from anyone. Yesterday I received two packets in the mail from my contact person stating that since my circumstances have changed, I need to file again for modification. My circumstances haven't changed nor did I ever say anything of the sort. I am still in the same boat I was when I filed my first modification. And if she ever bothered to call me, she would know. I am at wit’s end and don't know what to do. I get runaround after runaround. It is insanity.
No one can tell me anything when I call. And the latest letter told me a new representative has been set up for me and to call her directly. I did. Guess what? She answered and had no idea why I am calling her. She isn't my rep and referred me right back to the one that never returns my calls. I have lived in my house for 20 years. I have never missed or been late on a mortgage payment. Then, they double it and immediately try to foreclose on a mortgage I never signed with them to begin with, but which they bought out and decided to change all the rules and ignore the mortgage in existence.
Reviewed Nov. 9, 2011
It is almost a waste of time to keep talking about it. But I want to submit a formal complaint against BOA on how they handled a foreclosure on my home in Decatur, GA. I also want to add my name to any pending class-action lawsuits that might be in existence against this company. My story is truly a comedy of errors on the part of the bank. I have been dealing with this mess since October 2010. And just this month, I am told my home was sold on November 1, 2011, while I was working with the "short sale" department to avoid foreclosure.
I had a rep working with me and we thought everything was going as planned, but it wasn't! I have every document and records of every letter and phone call between me and the bank's reps. BOA has gotten far too big to know how to deal with the small consumer. Everything is departmentalized and those departments don't communicate. It is a horrible process.
Reviewed Nov. 9, 2011
I am reading through these complaints and can totally relate to them. I too received a check just the other day, saying they do not take partial payments. I went on line to my bank and found every payment sent to them (BofA). None were partial payments. Yes, they've been late. I informed Bank of America the reason (loss of my job) and that my payments will be late but will be made. Now they are saying I am behind a payment. And they raised my mortgage payment. What's worse, they call insistently! I counted 88 calls from them in one month. And anytime I get someone on the phone, I have to re-tell them what I told the last person. There has to be a law against the way they do business.
Reviewed Nov. 8, 2011
On July 20, 2011, I reached out to BofA to refinance my home. I was advised on the same day of the terms of my refinance. As part of the processing, I was requested to pay a processing fee to BofA of $35 and $250 to JP Morgan Chase for subordination processing. The loan was projected to be completed by end of Aug. 2011.
I contacted BofA multiple times to get a status on my loan and I continued to get a runaround on the delays. I can provide multiple e-mails if necessary to show the number of times that I reached to BofA which should not have been necessary. On Sept. 22, 2011, I was advised by BofA that my loan was approved and I would be getting a call to schedule an appointment with escrow . On Oct. 20, 2011, I was notified by BofA that due to their negligence and inefficiencies, my approved loan could not be processed. On Oct. 21, 2011 I requested to be reimbursed for my expenses ($35 + $250). I have been advised that the issue has been escalated. I am now getting the same runaround that I got in getting my loan.
I am hereby filing a complaint on BofA's unscrupulous business process. This is just short of consumer fraud and ask for your assistance in recovering my expenses.
Reviewed Nov. 7, 2011
For two and half years, I tried to get a loan modification with B of A, faxing documents more than 35 times they were lost or was told they never got them. This went on for over two years November 2010. I contacted senator Harry ** office, told them my problem with B of A. A letter was sent on my behalf to the bank. The next day I got a call from B of A. Within three weeks, I had a loan modification.
B of A did not lower my interest rate. My payment was raised 163.00 more. I had been unable to work for more than a year. I'm in worse shape now than before I was told by B of A I should be thankful I was lucky they did it because of Senator **. Well, I can't get a call back from **'s office. I have emailed. I have left messages and no response. B of A has set me up to fail. They also added another 20,000.00 to my mortgage on top of fees that added another 45.000.00 that's 65.000. I paid 217.000.00. Now I owe 265.000.00 on a house that worth 103.000.00. Can't get Bank of America to do the right help. I was also told by B of A the Making Home Affordable act was not for me. I'm now behind in my payments two months.
Reviewed Nov. 7, 2011
B of A is my first mortgage holder (purchased from countrywide). As with other complains listed, I lost my job three years ago, but managed to make monthly mortgage payments, although some were admittedly late. B of A has "lost" several of those payments. They sent me a loan modification package some time ago and denied me saying I had not returned the necessary documents, although I faxed them to the fax number indicated. They then continued to state I was behind and charge late charges. They notified me that my escrow had changed and raised my payment approximately 74 dollars a month. I made one payment (difficult on a fixed income).
I then received a letter stating I was caught up and to make my regular payment (which indicated an additional $6 monthly). I made my payment with the additional 6 dollars only to have it returned to me saying it was only a partial payment. I then received another loan modification package. Completed and returned it. At the same time, I received a letter stating that my payment was going up (approximately $74 a month) due to my escrow going up. i was able to talk to someone at B of A that is "processing my case" and to pay my modified amount. Sounds like a familiar theme.
Reviewed Nov. 6, 2011
BOA decided I did not have homeowners insurance in 2009. My insurance agent kept faxing them proof of insurance and even a letter stating I have never been without homeowners insurance. In 2010, BOA Stole $3,500 and paid a duplicate insurance bill they had authorized. Sometime at the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011, they unlawfully took this money from the mortgage payment. I have always made on time. They then declared I was late 2 months and started foreclosure on my home. I have been working with the President and CEO's office since May of 2011 and their representative told me that she agrees that I did not owe for the BOA insurance policy. She further stated she could do nothing to help me.
BOA reported this incorrect information to the credit bureaus. All my credit card companies lowered my credit line to the existing balance. As accounts were paid, they closed them. I lost $78,000 in credit overnight due to BOA. I am a small business owner and this has damaged my ability to conduct business. They further refused to refinance me because of my bad credit, which the representative of BAO agreed that they had been responsible. BOA will put nothing in writing. I am not sure if I will be able to continue to do business.
Being self employed, if my business fails, I do not qualify for unemployment or any other financial aid. I will be forced to be homeless. This has been reported to the OCC and I am awaiting BOA response. My mortgage is one of the CountryWide issued. It clearly states that all money received shall first go to interest, second to principal, third to late fees and last to unpaid escrow. BOA is in breach of contract and they could care less. They did not even have a copy of the Mortgage before starting the foreclosure. BOA is only leaving me the option of declaring bankruptcy due to their breach of contract.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2011
On August 18th 2011, I contacted Bank of America to cancel the weekly payment plan that I set up. The representative told me that I did not have to submit a mortgage payment until October 2011. About two weeks after this call, I received a check from Bank of America for $349.93 stating that it was an escrow overage.
On October 7th, I received a statement that my September payment was short of $349.93. I contacted them and had the displeasure of speaking with an extremely rude employee who informed me that the September payment was short by that much and I had until the 16th to remit it. I sent the amount electronically only to have BOA send another check with same amount, stating that they did not accept partial payments. This was on the 7th of October. Once again, I contacted BOA and was told by the representative that she would call me back the next day to get the information for the account (my credit union account) to debit the funds. The call never came.
On October 25th, I spoke with another representative, who saw what had happened. She took my credit union routing number and account number, issued me a confirmation number and promised to call me back on October 26th to let me know everything had been resolved.
Today is November 5th, I never got a call and I received in the mail today yet again a check from BOA for $349.93 stating that they do not accept partial payments. I'm sick of the ineptitude and rudeness of the representatives. My credit has taken a hit. Not only do I want this situation resolved immediately, at no cost to me, my mortgage needs to be transferred to another lender right away! I also expect each and every creditor of BOA reports and be sent a letter expressly stating that they are at fault.
Reviewed Nov. 5, 2011
I was on the phone yesterday morning with Bank of America for an hour and a half to discuss the fees they arbitrarily put on my mortgage account. I've been trying to resolve this now for over 2 years. I've called; I don't know how many times. I've already filed two consumer complaints against BofA with the AZ State Attorney General. Yesterday's call was a classic.
I made my call and got routed to several people before getting routed to Ann from the Zero Coupon department - whatever that is supposed to be. I wanted to know where the $982 in fees on my account came from and why I should have to pay for it. She told me the fees are from when BofA did several drive by inspections of my home to ensure that it was occupied. She rattled off as many as 5 or 6 dates where BofA supposedly did these drive by inspections. They could have called me at my home phone number to verify if I was occupying the house. So, I asked her why I should pay fees for something they chose to do that I was completely unaware of. She asked me if I could hold for a moment so she could speak with her supervisor. I said okay.
Well, she never actually put me on hold. I could still hear her, though slightly muffled, like she held her phone to her chest. I could hear her turn and say to co-workers, "Wait until you hear this! I have a customer on the line that wants to know why she has to pay the fees for our drive by inspections." Then I heard a bunch of laughter on the phone from several people in the background. Then, Ann got back on the phone with me and told me, "I'm sorry, but after speaking with my manager, there is nothing we can do. We cannot waive those fees."
So then, I confronted Ann and told her that she didn't actually put me on hold and I had heard every word she had just said to her co-workers, and I repeated to her what I heard her say. She started apologizing to me. I started complaining to her about now having heard first-hand how BofA treats their customers. She then said, "Let me transfer you to another department that can help you out."
I got transferred yet again and was put on some sort of hold where all I got was "Please wait". A few moments later, another "Please wait". I was waiting. Then, I got, "Your question is very important to us. Please wait". I waited. Then, I finally got "If you'd like to leave a message for mailbox 6176, please press the pound sign." I pressed the pound sign. Then I heard, "Your message has been sent. Good bye." I hadn't said anything. There was no message and I had no idea what this 6176 mailbox was!
Then, I started over again by calling the number that I originally started with. I got Glen. I went down through the whole situation with him regarding the fees and everything that just happened with Ann. He tells me that there's nothing he can do and that he's going to have to route me to the home retention department. I wondered why I was getting routed to the home retention department. There's no issue with my home retention; I just want those fees adequately explained and hopefully removed. Glen transferred me and I got the menu system of the home retention department. I entered my account number and I was told that Daytiesia ** was my account representative. The system transferred me over to her number (and this has happened numerous times before), and the system said it will transfer me and all I got was Dayteisia's voice mail, saying she will return my call within 1 business day. She never does.
Enough of BofA's diversionary tactics and their devious, fraudulent activities. How can they just put fees on my account without me knowing anything about them or what those fees are for. Ann resorted to trying to explain to me that the fees for drive by inceptions were for my protection! As I see it, it's not for my protection but just another way for BofA to gouge me with fees.
There's more during the conversation about the new fees put on my account supposedly for "drive by inspections" which Ann stated occurred when I wasn't making payments. The dates were just months prior to filing Chapter 7 BK, and Countrywide held the mortgage at that time. It was only after Bank of America acquired Countrywide and after I satisfied a repayment workout plan, an agreement between myself and Countrywide, that BofA put those fees on my account. This occurred the very a month after I made all past due payments and fees documented in contract between me and Countrywide. In the contact agreement for a payment plan to pay back the past due payments plus fees, amounts were explicitly documented in the contract with a statement as the first clause saying no additional fees will be charged without an expressed written agreement signed by both parties.
When I told Ann, the BofA representative, this, she told me that that was a contract between me and Countrywide, not between me and Bank of America, and that Bank of America was under no obligation to honor that contract. I replied, "Wait a minute. You don't want to honor Countrywide's contract which you assumed, but you want to assume collection of fees that BofA is just now, as of yesterday, claiming were charged while Countrywide held my mortgage. She diverted the conversation.
Obviously, BofA does only what suits them and cares nothing about honoring signed contracts. Further, I have a recent letter on October 4th from BofA, saying the fees had been charged by them after my workout repayment plan was satisfied and the fees were charged to reverse foreclosure proceedings, even though my mortgage never actually went into foreclosure. However, yesterday, their story changed, saying the fees were charged for drive by inspections. Well, which is it? It seems BofA is just coming up with any ** story that they can think of to try to charge and collect additional fees from me.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2011
I was told in April of this year that my mortgage account would be transferred to Bank of America. Right then and there, I knew that it was going to be a disaster. I called a friend of mine (that is a former employee of Bank of America) to let her know that my mortgage account was transferred. She immediately told me to make sure I keep all documentations of my payments and do online banking through my bank because BOA has a habit of "losing" people payments.
Sure enough this came true in less than a month. Since I get paid in the middle of the month, I send my mortgage payment in early (before the 1st of the month). In June, BOA sent my home insurance company a check indicating that it was an "over-paid" amount. In turn my insurance company was issuing me a refund check. Before they did this, I received a call from a rep from BOA indicating that it was an error and not to cash the check (the check never made it to my house). I was like okay and continued making my payments.
September, I received a package in the mail about a modification loan offer. I called BOA to see what was going on and they indicated that it was Escrow that went up. I was transferred to the Escrow department (after several hang-ups) and they informed me that my insurance went up. I called my insurance company to see what was going on with it and they were missing a piece of information. I faxed it back to them again and I received a new policy in the mail indicating that my insurance actually was $195 lower than the original amount. I called my home insurance again and informed them to fax all this information to BOA. A few days later, I called BOA to see if everything was adjusted on my account. Unsurprisingly, they said it was something else going on with the account. They sent back my last three payments indicating that it was a "partial payment" and charged me a late fee since June.
It all boiled down to the time in June when they sent my home insurance company an "over-payment" check, they screwed me ever since. I was re-issued a check from my insurance company and I paid BOA all that I had. They are still trying to say that I'm two months behind and my house will be going through Foreclosure status on the 10th of November. This bank is terrible and they are literally trying to ruin everything that I have worked so hard for. They are not admitting fault and they are refusing to reverse any fees that were place on my account. On top of that, they are still saying that my mortgage payment is 240 dollars more a month because of my insurance and Escrow. Now my mortgage payment is too high that I can't afford it. I'm at a lost and don't know what to do.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2011
Where's the help for the people who played the game right? I am my parents’ son who have the power of attorney on their behalf. I live in the house in question. My parent applied for a home loan back in November 2005. My parents have a fico score of around 800, which is AAA. For what it takes to get an 800 score is years of doing the right thing, not missing payments for 45 years and is never default on anything. If we had more people who cared on doing the right thing, this world could be a lot different. But it is what it is. The loan broker put them in one of the bad loans. The broker knew these loans will go through especially with an 800 fico. My parents were told that they got the best loan out there. My parents have bought homes before in their life so they know how it works but their other loans were 30 fixed. The broker knew these new loans were going to be approved, so he put them in one. But he did not mention that in a few years, we won’t be able to afford the loan because of how the loan was going to end.
Now remember that my parents don’t take chances since they have the 800 fico. They do things safe and truthful. Do you think my parents would have still the loan, if they were told that they will have to default on this down the road after 45 years of doing the right thing? No way! We wouldn't be in this mess, neither. They didn’t disclose how the loan worked. The broker just said initial here, here and this part, and initial here but never said anything about where they won’t be able to afford the house. Okay for now. The house that is in question is where I live in. My parents helped me out by doing a good deed, took out a first on the house they live in. I was in the construction business, my own dirt hauling business, making $8,000 a month in average.
My parents knew that I could make the payments before finding out after a couple of years later that the loan was a negative amortization loan. We owed more on the house than in the beginning. That’s the time when all these loans went bad. Due to the bad business and the economy was going bad, so did my job since the construction stopped, I have to lose my family house because of other people not doing their job right. And also that the broker did not disclose to us that we weren’t going to be able to afford the loan. My parents could even lose their home because they took money out of their home for this to happen. My mom applied for some credit from Dell to buy a laptop, a $500 or so. She was denied for %500. She said she was embarrassed. They were never denied before.
Now that they have to live differently because of bad business habits from Million Airs, the system is penalizing people who do the right thing? It’s so wrong and all these modification say that it has to be their primary house. So here we go again, somebody who plays the game right gets penalized, so wrong. Do we need to talk a little louder so someone will take care of the people who lived honestly and did not lie on loan documents to get things? We want to keep our family home and the kids’ school friends. It’s not fair for us to have to change everything for someone’s mistake. We would like to talk to someone who can help us, one person and not 10 different people to have everything be explained again.
They said that they will get back to us but when somebody calls, it’s right back at the beginning. It’s like we’re doing nothing and the bank will say nobody called them to help us. I don’t want to say that banks don’t want to help the homeowners to save their homes but it looks like that. They took the bailout money and who’s paying that, my parents and I. We file our taxes every year. We’re not asking for anything more than the help that’s out there. But the house value is around $200,000 and the loans are around $450,000. There’s got to be a way to save our home. Any new buyer will pay $200,000. What can be done for us? Can someone take the time to help us? Thank you, hopefully someone will read this and all this wasn’t for nothing. Thanks.
Reviewed Nov. 4, 2011
My husband & I applied for a HAMP loan in January 2010, which we do qualify for, were lied to 5X concerning lost paperwork. Did certified mail, contacted our congressman, and our state senator for assistance, were eventually denied a modification due to a fictional income which we do not make. We worked through a HUD counselor to no avail.
We still are current on our house, but have cashed in all of our 401ks to attempt to keep our house, as my husband is disabled; however, we would like to join the class action suit from Ohio if you would forward this information to the appropriate lawyers. I have dates and names and an anecdotal record of our experience and would be happy to supply anything that would support the case.
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2011
Been going through the modification process since 2008, multiple stall tactics, refused to reduce principle, refused to foreclose twice, refused to accept deed in lieu 3 times, and would not respond to 3 short sale offers. But they keep approving me for modification, and tack all the 3 yr. delinquencies and taxes which make it 300,000 over what the market value of the house is or what I can get on the for sale market.
I had to file bankruptcy in 2011, hoping to gain closure to this housing mess, they will not return phone calls or respond to over 70 letters sent. I sent letter to and modification documents showing they refused any principle reduction, or any short sale offers to MA. Attorney General 3 weeks ago no response as of yet from AG, and Bank of America again refuses the deed in lieu or to reduce any principle even though it is an original Countrywide loan and owned by Bank of America as well. The house has been on the market since 2007, it is worth 450,000 they now say, I owe $800,000.00 principle combined with first and second mortgages all owned by BOA.
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2011
I lost my job 2 years ago. Immediately after filing unemployment we contacted Bank of America to let them know and to see if there was any type of assistance. After several months of getting the run-around, we were told that we did indeed qualify for loan modification and that the papers were in the mail. We never received the paperwork, and by the time I started working again part-time, they said I was making too much money and could not get assistance. We were already 7 months behind at that point. Then it moved into foreclosure process. We had an offer for quick sale, but they drag their feet for over 3 months on getting the offer approved and our buyer backed out. We have applied for the Deed in lieu and were denied.
We have another offer on the house now. And after being tossed from department to department tonight for over an hour on the phone, the last person I talked to basically said there is a matrix that says the investor will not agree to anything, even a short sale. When I asked who to file a complaint with because of the service I have received, the guy literally laughed in my ear. Bank of America has the worst customer service I have ever experienced. I also found out tonight that our house is set to be sold next month and we have not even been notified about it. This has been going on for almost 2 years. I can't believe with all the programs that they have that are supposed to help people, but nobody qualifies for. So now I guess our home will be sold at an auction if the investor does not accept this current offer.
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2011
Bank of America is charging fees on my mortgage that were not part of the loan documents that were signed as a contract between me and my bank. When they purchased my loan, they cannot charge for things that were not part of the original loan. It would be like me starting to assess a fee for receiving my monthly statement electronically instead of through the mail like it was originally. What could I charge for that "service" to them? It was not part of the original agreement and I would not be able to alter the terms of the contract without a signed modification of the contract by all parties involved.
Reviewed Oct. 30, 2011
I bought my house more than five years ago and since then, I have gone to graduate school. I knew I would be late for one payment due to the disbursement timing of my student loans. I called two months in advance to see if there was something I could do. I was advised that I was pre-approved for a mortgage modification program, but wouldn't qualify until I missed two payments.
So, I missed the payment I was going to be late on and, as they suggested, was invited to apply to the program. By the time I was eventually denied for the program, it had been two months and it was the day after they sent my mortgage into foreclosure. I called immediately to get the payoff amount to get it out of foreclosure. After several calls, I was still never sent this amount.
I was then called by another company saying that I may qualify for the HAFA program. After sending them my information and documentation, they approved me for the HAFA program and sent an appraiser to my house. I was never told any of this unless I called, emailed, and basically hounded them.
After calling continuously for two months and hearing nothing, I received a letter saying that, in fact, do not qualify for the program they approved me for two months prior. That is the only communication I have received from them in months, even though I call regularly asking for updates.
At this point, I am six months behind on my mortgage and Bank of America refuses to accept payment on my account. When I called for information, they pass me from department to department. My credit is now ruined due to the late mortgage payments and all because I was trying to be responsible and call months in advance of being late on a payment and listening to what they instructed me to do. This will potentially impact my ability to get license in my field of study or to get a job at all.
Reviewed Oct. 30, 2011
I had been unable to sell my home in 2009 due to it needing $30,000 worth of basement work which I could not afford to fix myself. I asked BOA to do a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure and was told I needed to have the house on the market for at least another 60 days, which I did. It was very hard to find interested buyers and the first offer received no response from BOA for 3 mos and decided to walk. Another potential buyer whose offer had been accepted walked after the home inspection. The house had been listed "as is" so there was nothing that was not disclosed, they just got cold feet because of the amount work needed on the home.
The real story has been this last offer on the home, which had been pending from 4-8-11 until 10-26-11. At this point, all short-sales with BOA were going through the HAFA program, which I qualified for on 6-1-11. I had since moved out and into an apartment because my daughter contracted pneumonia in Feb 2010 and had a difficult time recuperating. I knew that the dampness and molds from the basement were not helping the situation.
So, the most recent potential buyer got sick and tired of waiting for her offer to accepted and finally walked after over 6 mos of Loan Resolutions not coming up with a closing date and accepted offer. The real nightmare was that my file got lost so many times and was handled by so many different people who never returned phone calls or e-mails or really answered any questions.
The bank also started foreclosure while there was still an active (supposedly) offer. The craziest thing was that no less than 5 minutes after my real estate agent notified the bank that the buyer had finally got fed up and walked, she received a call from LRC stating that the buyer couldn't walk because her offer had been accepted. My agent and I did not believe them because we had already been told a supposed closing date at least 3 or 4 times in the previous months; end of July, early Sept, mid-Sept, Nov 18th; that we demanded something in writing which we did not get until the next day when the buyer walking was already a done deal.
I have called the deed-in-lieu dept again a BOA and told them I am completely fed-up and burned out with trying to get any kind of short-sale with them. I was told that the short-sale was still active in the system (3 days after paperwork was sent) and that we have to wait for LRC to update the system.
I do not believe the "Loans Resolutions" is a good name for the operation that I had to deal with. Nothing ever got resolved. My file kept going from one person to another. We had numerous supposedly projected closing dates, as I stated, starting from end of July, to Sept 1st, to Sept 18, to Nov 18th. the final project closing date was 12-10-11, but who knows if that ever would have happened? I do not blame the buyer for walking; she wanted to buy a home, not be living in my nightmare with me. I don't know if I will get the deed-in-lieu that I first asked for. BOA seems intent on *** everyone over.
Reviewed Oct. 29, 2011
Like many people today, my family has been hit hard with the economic downturn. My wife has been out of work for more than a year, and it is hard to get the mortgage paid in the allotted payment schedule, but we manage somehow. Here is how Bank of America manages. They call my phone every day (sometimes three to four times a day) until the payment is made. If I make the payment anywhere near the end of the month, they will delay the entry into the bank until the next month. I assume that it is to reduce my credit score, and make it look like I didn’t pay within the payment schedule of the month. They charge a $50 late fee and a $10 fee just to pay online (not even talking to a person). If you are looking for a good mortgage company, do not use this one. They will use any way they can to make your life hell.
Reviewed Oct. 28, 2011
They do not get a star at all. Today, I have started calling every senator in the Capital Building. There is a call list on line. If everyone calls these senators every day as I am, we, together as a group, may get something done about the dishonest Bank of America.
They are foreclosing on me, even though they admitted that they acknowledge that the broker committed fraud on my paperwork. They have called and left fictitious return numbers, they call at night and hang up. We need to call the White House and complain. Vice President Biden's # is 202-224-2424. Call that number and complain everyday. I have been on the phone all day, I have been hung up on, put on hold and forgotten, been rudely spoken to, and one individual even told me I just wasted my breath and time. Not a chance, calls will resume on Monday. Join me in the crusade against Bank of America.
Reviewed Oct. 28, 2011
On September 23, 2011, BofA and I locked the rate for the loan to buy a foreclosed home in Hemet, CA, they knew I was working in San Diego and the property was located in Hemet. I was going to live in it and commute to SD since the house cost only $79,000.00 with a down payment of $30,000.00. My payment would have been very low; the loan officer told me it takes 10 days for them to make a decision; 10 days went by with no answer if it was approved or not until 10/24/11 when they said it was declined because they thought I was not going to live in that house; meanwhile, I was charge for the appraisal $470.00 which they said they cannot refund. I took them 31 days to tell me the loan was declined and I'm out $470.00. While talking to both of them there was no courtesy at all.
Reviewed Oct. 28, 2011
I submitted the documents requested for the initial HAMP application to Bank of America on April 18, 2011 and provided documents requested by Bank of America in follow up on April 25 and April 26, 2011. These documents were submitted by fax. I received a denial for this application on June 1, 2011 stating Bank of America denied for HAMP due to missing documents. Additionally, I re-submitted the same documents requested by Bank of America on May 9, June 8, June 10, and June 24, 2011 by fax.
I filed an appeal on June 3, 2011, which was found invalid by Bank of America. On June 8, 2011, I filed a second appeal with Bank of America customer service representative, Lislette, because Lislette was able to confirm in the system that the requested documents had been received in time. This appeal was again denied due to the same missing documents. On June 16, 2011, I filed a third appeal with Bank of America customer service representative, Justin **, who said the previous appeal from June 3 had not been filed properly by Bank of America. Justin was able to locate the missing documents and ensured me he would file a detailed appeal. On June 22, 2011, this appeal was denied.
On the same day, Bank of America customer service representative, Lisa ** was able to confirm the missing documents had been received as of April 18, 2011 and ensured me she would file an escalation on this matter. I found out in September 2011, that this escalation was rejected. On September 9, 2011, Bank of America negotiator, Monica **, and her supervisor Antoine, filed an escalated appeal regarding the previous invalidated appeal because they were able to confirm with Lisa ** that all requested documents had been received by April 18, 2011.
On October 6, 2011, this escalation was denied because it was not filed within 30 days of the decline date of June 1, 2011. This denial does not address the request presented in the appeal as I had requested that the previous invalidated appeal would be reviewed again based on the evidence submitted by Monica ** and Antoine. All documents were submitted in a timely fashion, was acknowledged by Bank of America several times, but they still are rejecting this application based on these same "missing documents."
Reviewed Oct. 28, 2011
I have been trying to get a loan modification since 11-2009. I purchased in the height of the mortgage bubble in 2007. I used 25 years of equity as my down payment. My family has been put through psychological hell since the day I signed those interest only loan documents. I had no clarity in lending. I was told that I would be able to re-finance within six months with no worries. What a joke! B of A is the worst company on the planet. They have treated me like a rat by just keep on dangling the cheese saying that they're here to help my family stay in our home. I have been denied many times for so many vague reasons, like missing documents. That was not true. I provided the bank with everything but my family's DNA. Customer service is sub-par to non existent.
After four hours of the run around, I finally had to drive to my local bank branch. They were once again clueless and could not answer any of my questions why all my negotiators could never return my phone calls. Here are all my point of contacts Sue **, Elaine **, Calvin **, William **, Kelly **, Pierre **, David **, and Matthew **. Yet, they never are available, how convenient. They have also had my income information entered in the computer system incorrectly since January 2011, while I was continually told my file was in underwriting and that once they found my application, which was provided on several occasions.
Reviewed Oct. 27, 2011
I had fallen severely behind in my mortgage payments. I contacted Countrywide Home Loans about a modification program. I submitted all docs and was told time and time again it was "in review". During this time my loan was turned over to BOA. I began the same process with them and re-submitted all docs. Again, I was told that it was "in review". After 2 months, I was told to re-submit the same basic information. I was also instructed to not attempt to make any payments on the home at that time due to putting myself into a "hardship" scenario.
I continued re-submitting the same items on 4 different occasions with no results. I then started working with a broker on a short sale. We started this process in April 2011. We had a cash buyer for the property. I submitted all required paperwork that they requested and they had it within 24 hours of their request. We were tentatively scheduled to close in September.
The broker continued to ask me for docs to provide to BOA. I complied very quickly. I was told last Thursday at 1:00PM that BOA needed a letter that indicated that my name was spelled incorrectly on the purchase agreement. After that we were good to go with the closing. Again, I complied and they had their letter within an hour of the request. At 3:00PM that same day, I was contacted by the broker indicating that BOA said that they house was scheduled for sheriffs' auction the next morning. I was never notified of a sale date to foreclose. This was a complete surprise to me and the broker. The broker attempted to delay the sale but could not get a response back from anyone at BOA.
My house was sold at auction the next day. 2 business days later I received a letter electronically from BOA indicating that the short sale was denied due to not having a selling contract in place 14 days prior to the auction sale date. Maybe my math is off, but we started this process in late April of 2011 and the house went up for auction on October 21, 2011. That is more than 14 days. The letter went on to read that I have options: loan modification or deed in lieu of foreclosure. How can the suggest that when it was auctioned off without more than a days notice? The brokers that I was working with suggested that I contact an attorney. They had never ever seen this happen before. My credit is beyond repair and I lost the house. Perhaps a class action lawsuit may get their attention on their unfair business practices. What recourse do I have?
Reviewed Oct. 27, 2011
I hated having to give them a single star! In August 2011, I contacted BOA because I was concerned that I was going to be late on my mortgage payment coming up in September. I was told that the options that were available didn't apply to me because I wasn't late yet. Despite my attempts to explain that being late and the subsequent negative credit reporting was what I was trying to avoid, they connected me to the default prevention group. Again, I didn't qualify because I wasn't late and didn't occupy the property (it had been on the market for four months at that time). The default prevention group connected me to REDC on September 5th. They asked for extensive financial documentation of my hardship and my inability to pay. REDC told me it would be five to ten days to get approval, and to "do nothing" in the meantime because the DIL would erase the late payment once approved.
I heard nothing during the 10-day timeframe and began emailing and calling them on a daily basis. No one returned my calls or emails until October 10th, when I was informed that the DIL was denied. By then, my September payment was late. BOA reported my late payment to the credit agencies and my score plummeted 60 to 75 points, depending on the agency. I contacted BOA's Executive Committee Division - they don't accept emails - and explained that the payment was late because of their agent's (REDC group) instruction to "do nothing" during the DIL process. The Executive Committee Division notified me today that the negative reporting is going to stand, that it was my decision to be late with the payment and therefore, I had to suffer the consequences.
Despite being extremely rude, Lisa "investigated" what appeared to be my email messages to them through BOA and never investigated the communication with the REDC group. My mortgage with them was always paid on time, the house has been sold, and BOA paid off. How would it hurt them to reverse a negative report to the credit agencies when they've gotten their money, and the only late payment was the result of their instruction? No wonder people are marching in the streets. Now there's a 60 to 75 point drop in my otherwise excellent credit score. An attorney told me that I could pursue the bank for "defamation of character" by reporting the late payment and the adverse effect it has on my credit score. Who has the money to pay an attorney to do this when we're struggling to keep our homes? Shame on BOA!
Reviewed Oct. 27, 2011
First of all, I am not behind in my mortgage payment and I have payed my payments on time. My complaint is that no matter who you talk with at Bank of America customer service, the standard answer is, "I don't know why someone told you that, it's wrong! " and then you are given an answer that is a complete opposite of the first. If you can't believe anything that your told from one phone to another, what am I to believe? No wonder Bank of America is in such financial trouble, one hand doesn't know what the other is doing.
I recently reduced my insurance payment by almost 50%. I was told that my payment would be reduced within the next two months. Now, three and a half months later, I am told that my payments won't be reduced until maybe at the end of January or February 2012.
If I conducted business like Bank of America, I would not be able to stay in business either. But in my case, the government would not be willing to bail me out. Maybe the government needs to allow poorly run companies like Bank of America to suffer from their own bad and poorly operated business. Oh, by the way, my original mortgage was not with Bank of America and I would never recommend them to anyone.
Reviewed Oct. 26, 2011
I have been behind on the mortgage to my house. Then, I got an important notice from the bank saying that I was in a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. I was advised not to send payments until or unless the court tells me and to follow anything the court tells me. I waited to hear from the court. Then the bank posted on my house that there was a sale on October 25, 2011 .
I called and they said I should call the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which I did. HUD sent me to a company named Clear Point. We decided to start a short sale. They were on the phone with me and the bank to start this. I got a broker and he did what he was supposed to do and asked for the date to be moved back.
Well! I never filled for bankruptcy I went to the federal building in Sacramento and they researched back 20 years and confirmed that I was correct. They gave me a certificate of search. Here I thought the bank had instigated this Chapter 13 thing. However, what happened was that another person with almost the same name but different Social Security number did and they mistook it for me. My question is do I have any recourse?
Reviewed Oct. 26, 2011
I have owned my home for just over two years and have been paying $650 per month for those two years; every month, I check my account to make sure I have the funds and make sure the money came out. Fed-Ex delivered me a package on Saturday and as I am expecting to deliver a baby within the next week, I excitedly opened it because I thought it was something for her. It wasn't. It was a packet including an application and a checklist of documents to track down in order to avoid foreclosure and consider options to remain in my house. I was baffled.
As it turns out, my monthly mortgage payment jumped from $650 per month ($623) to $902 per month and apparently September's payment was mailed back to me because it was less than the full amount. $902? Payment returned to me? So I spent almost my entire work day trying to figure out what to do because I am a new homeowner and never anticipated this would happen. I called the NCCI business first (an agency that Bank of America contracts out with to offer loan modifications) and after speaking with "Luis," he urged me to contact Bank of America first to work with them because I would be having a baby over the next 1-8 days (a representative was supposed to come over within the next 7-10 days at a random time from a few days before Saturday's date). Luis gave me the phone number to call and I did. The automated phone message gave a series of options to pay or make known of a payment that would be made. I hung up as there were no options to speak with a representative.
I looked on my statement and called the number in bold; it was a different number but I received the same phone tree. I read the smaller print and found where it said to call a counselor/representative to call this other number. I called it and got the same tree. No option to talk to a representative. So, I said "Representative" and the automated voice said, "I think you asked to speak with a representative, but there's usually a wait." And then proceeded to talk about setting up a "promise to pay" schedule; which basically puts you back to the beginning where you can check on your balance, make a payment, or set up a payment. So I stopped responding to the questions the automated voice was asking. The automated voice apologized for not being able to understand or help me and I was transferred to a representative, but not the representative I wanted. This one asked the same questions that the automated voice did, but this one seemed more unsympathetic with my situation. She told me that I was $1,990 in arrears and that had to be paid immediately and in full. There were no options. I could not speak with a supervisor because I would be told the same thing. These were the guidelines. (I went to college, guidelines are not law, they are there to guide but are not the be all end all rules). So I told her that I set it up through my bank to pay $655 on the first of the month and $655 on the 15th; which would take care of my mortgage for the month and I could apply the extra towards my arrears. She said that they would just send all that money back to me. They do not accept partial payments.
A few of my co-workers divide their mortgages to come out of each check, so I know that it is possible. This representative even told me that she has seen much larger mortgage payments get returned for being thirty cents short! She said that the $1,990 that I owe for September and October combined includes a $114 late fee. The last I knew my mortgage was $650 and I was paying more than the amount due thinking that any extra would go towards the principal. Now, my payments have gone up $250 per month and I'm being assessed astronomical late fees and I'm not even being given a chance to get my credit right. And yes, here it is October 25th and I already have on my credit report a missing mortgage payment from SEPTEMBER because they sent it back to me and wouldn't take it. At this point, I did learn that my escrow account was in the negative (my school taxes just got paid because I received the receipt). I am going out on maternity leave at half pay over the next week or so and will still be expected to pay this high mortgage payment of $902 when I will only bring in $1300 for the entire month.
Many people don't even bring in that much money. For $902 I imagine that I would be living in a ritzy area with high taxes, but that is not so. I live in a run-down house with run-down houses all around me. As a matter of fact, my friend who does live in the ritzy section of town has a lower mortgage payment than I do AND she pays it bi-weekly! I was told by this same representative that if I owed $902 and I paid $950, that they would send me to difference in a check and would not apply it to my principal. When I originally got this loan, it was through M & T Bank. Apparently, Bank of America took that bank over because when I asked her how long Bank of America has been servicing my loan, she told me the same date that I closed on my house.
Now, I am looking at having to take money out from my retirement fund, which there is barely enough in there to cover what I owe this bank. It is completely unfair what is going on. Because it brought my credit score way down, my hometown bank won't purchase the loan from them (which I didn't know I could have done months ago, but then again, I didn't realize I was having problems until this past weekend) so I can't refinance and get it lowered yet. When I call my credit union, I get a real person every time. I get their direct extensions. I tell my woes and they relate to me and make me feel as if I matter. To them I am a person, not a dollar amount. I would rather give my money to them for their customer service skills rather than to Bank of America. The credit union is at least making me feel as if they want to work with me. I should have been an expert in home ownership before becoming a home owner. Nobody told me that my mortgage would go up like this. Nobody told me that I would not be able to afford to live in a house that has one outlet in each room, hardly any insulation upstairs, and has not been updated ever! I owe $66,000 on this mortgage, but the house is really only worth about $40-45,000. I do not live my life throwing money around. I do not have cable television, I do not have an iPhone, I don't party, etc.
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2011
I started a Bank of America mortgage on 9/2/2011 and they promised to close 9/28/2011 with a sure approval. They delayed it until 11/25/2011 even after the underwriter signed off last Thursday. They never kept their promise nor updated the status. They just keep saying that many of Bank of America loan officers were laid off so they do not have enough resource to proceed with my loan.
I do not recommend the Bank of America mortgage nowadays due to the lack of loan resource. Is there a way to claim the fee and time which I spent with Bank of America? They all agree this is not my fault but a Bank of America resource issue. Thanks.
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2011
I called BOA to ask if we could refinance our home during a time when our income was not sufficient to make our payments. We were told that the system was not yet in place and someone would call back. After this, we called again and again, no response. We continued to make our payments. A year later, we called a final time asked about our options to help us and then a week later we were sold off to Greentree. Funny how quickly they dumped us when they got our call.
Reviewed Oct. 25, 2011
I am selling my house and the buyer applied to BoA for a loan. We are now two weeks beyond the closing date and the bank refuses to give us any information whatsoever regarding the status of the loan or a closing date. Additionally, they do not return calls or respond to emails. In that, there was a continuous closing on a house we had a bid on, we lost our earnest money and the house. The bank personnel are inept, non-responsive and indifferent. BoA does stand for Bank of America, but rather Bank of **.
Reviewed Oct. 24, 2011
Prolong the Shortsale process it has been over 9 month and no response from BAC short sale department. They made me lose one buyer and on the verge of lose second buyer for my property.
Reviewed Oct. 24, 2011
I am another person who had his mortgage sold to Bank of America against my wishes. I am also one who did an electronic transfer of my payment, and BofA waited two weeks to send my check back, saying that I was short $9.00, because they had changed my payment. Now they want an additional $60, because I am past the due date. Is there nothing that can be done to stop this practice? The lady on the phone was very rude and kept interrupting while I was trying to explain my problem.
Reviewed Oct. 22, 2011
My husband and I began the home loan modification process in 8/2011. They requested multiple documents which we sent in. Maria ** was the lady handling our modification and we were never able to speak to her personally, she would only call my husband even though I am on the loan as well. In the beginning of October more documents were requested and a deadline of 10/14/11 was set by her to receive them by. I sent back the documents via FedEx overnight on 10/11/11. I called on 10/13/11 to confirm receipt of documents and they said they did receive them on 10/12/11 and they would email Maria ** providing her info of where the documents were located.
The following week, we still have not heard back from them so I decided to call and check the status of our request for modification. The lady I spoke to said our request was denied due to documents not received and that we would have to request an appeal to the denial. I was also informed that we can only move forward with the modification process if the appeal team says yes and if they say no, we cannot attempt the same type of modification and have to try something different. This is all because of Maria **'s negligence of not looking in the correct location for our paperwork that was received before the deadline as confirmed by Bank of America. How is this fair? The incompetency of Maria ** may keep us from saving our home. How can this be possible, why aren't these people being held accountable? It seams like nobody has any authority to do anything.
Reviewed Oct. 22, 2011
This company is horrible and almost cost me my family and marriage! After countless letters, phone calls, and threats of foreclosure, BOA had me believing that my husband was not paying our house payment and that we were 5 to 7months behind. In all actuality, my husband would pay online, but they would not credit the payment for 2-3 weeks and then insist on those insulting late charges. When the amount my husband originally sent did not cover the mortgage plus the fabricated late charges that they knowingly dragged their feet on processing the payment, they called it a "partial payment" and would not accept it. By the time they sent our money back, another month had already passed and they would tack on more late charges.
So, after a few months of never having a correct total owed of months of mortgage payments and false late charges, they would only accept all of the months due with their false late charges. Once, they even sent us a check back because it was $30.00 off of what they said our payment was. How can they get away with this? It appears that they are doing this to thousands of people. Who does BOA have to answer to? Please help.
Reviewed Oct. 21, 2011
My rate of the experience is less than zero. My daughter and her boyfriend purchased a home and Bank of America took over their loan from the original company. My daughter and her boyfriend are no longer together, and I have moved in with her to help pay for the house. BOA said that they were 4 payments behind.
I made payments and sent in extra money and cashed in 401k to bring the loan to current. They told me I needed to send $5,300.00, and I did and started making monthly payments, but they are sending them back, stating we are behind 10 payments because they would not apply the money I sent towards the loan and stating that they raised their payment from $730 a month to $950 a month. They also stated that they would start foreclosing procedures. We need some help or guidance please.
Reviewed Oct. 21, 2011
This attached letter explains what this company has done to us!
This letter is meant to follow the Hardship Letter we submitted on 10/10/2011. Daemian ** has become our main contact of Bank of America soon after being denied a loan modification. I felt the need to express how disgusted I am over this whole situation. I am very disappointed with Daemian and feel he uses scare tactics and says one thing and then threatens with another. I have decided to borrow money and sell home items to resolve the debt because Daemian said we would not qualify for the forbearance. The purpose of the Hardship Letter was to begin the process of a forbearance program in which Daemian said would be the best option for us since we did not have the past 6 months of past due mortgage. We received that information from him on 10/7/11.
I then typed up the Hardship letter in hopes of the forbearance program, which on 10/17/11 Daemian said would not be possible because our income was too high. I'm not sure why he didn't even submit us for that if we truly would have benefited from that program. On 10/17/11, he said we would go into pre foreclosure and the only option we had was to pay every dollar owed up on 10/31/11; no partial payments would be accepted. I felt hopeless. I couldn't believe we had no other way out at that time. I had received pay and was willing to work on a payment plan, but he said no. He suggested a short sale which I am not interested in. At this time, I have borrowed money from family and sold all home decor and furniture to make this deadline on 10/31/11 to avoid foreclosure.
I want you to know that at an 8.75% interest rate, I have tried to refinance and modify and was denied. The only other option I was asking for was a forbearance of 6 months since I'm not allowed any other options. The holidays are coming up and we are in a very bad position and won't be able to celebrate. You have definitely hurt me and my family. Beyond that, money will be so tight that we are on a $100 food budget for the next 2 months. This is humiliating.
My intentions were never to stop paying. I just fell behind for illness, daily debt, and because of course of this outrageous interest that has quickly exhausted our savings. We have exhausted every penny. The 2 months I was laid off in 2010 only set me back further. At that time, I approached you for help, and once again, you denied me for a loan modification.
The purpose of this letter is to demand some type of relief like mentioned in your numerous letters addressed to me. The enclosed envelope has a copy of every letter. Please reconsider working with us on a forbearance to give us some time to recuperate or working on a better interest rate would also be of great help.
I hope this letter reaches someone that can help us through these very hard times. The enclosed letters all offered me other ways out, which I feel were never offered. Bank of America never tried to help.
Reviewed Oct. 21, 2011
I wish there was an option for a negative rating, because that is what their customer service department and new policies deserve. I am not a Bank of America Customer and I was forced, when my home mortgage was sold from Countrywide, to them. To say that they are less than helpful is an understatement. When I went through a divorce, I became a month behind on my payment. When I could, I sent in 1/4 of my behind balance along with my regular payment. The next month, I did the same thing, thinking that I was catching up. The next month, I received a check from Bank of America with the amount I overpaid and a notice that they were expediting foreclosure proceedings for nonpayment. When I called Bank of America, I was told that they no longer accepted partial payments and I could pay the full amount plus fees and interest or they were going to continue with foreclosure proceedings.
I asked to speak with a supervisor, who informed me that they have a program for people who want to make partial payments to catch up and she took a ton of information and time and then informed me that I did not qualify for the partial payment program and I would have to pay the full amount. When I stated that I had already sent in a half payment and needed just two more months to catch up, I was informed that they would not allow for me to do that. I owe them money and I want to pay what I owe each month and catch up what is behind, and they will not allow that and have informed me that it is easier for them to foreclose on my home.
My loan is currently two months behind because, when I made the full payment that was listed on my payment form, they applied that towards the past due amount, which had fees, and since it was not the full amount, they returned the payment to me and charged me another month of late fees. They have started foreclosure proceedings on my home, where I live with my two young.
I have called regularly because I want to keep my home, I can make the regular payment and a little extra each month to catch up. We live paycheck to paycheck and my home is important to me. According to them, I do not qualify for a repayment program and they will not accept a partial payment.
Reviewed Oct. 21, 2011
It sounds ludicrous, but Bank of America reported they returned my mortgage payment because it was .31 cents short. I made an online mortgage payment to Bank of America (BOA). The payment was processed, and the funds were removed from my checking account the next day. After five days, I checked the mortgage account online, and the payment was not posted. I called BOA, and a BOA represented indicated that they had not received a payment for the month. After reviewing my account, the representative indicated that BOA returned the funds to me, by mail, because the bank does not accept partial payments as outlined by new FHA guidelines issued on July 2011.
I indicated that I did not submit a partial payment, if anything; the change amount was transposed in error. Still, the representative indicated BOA would not accept the payment, even if it was one cent short. Now I am required to pay a late fee, and stand in jeopardy of having my account reported to the credit bureau while I wait for the check BOA supposedly put in the mail. I have been a dissatisfied customer of Bank of American (BOA) since they brought my mortgage account a few years ago. My payments have not been late, and I usually pay extra towards my escrow. However, Bank of America continues to change my mortgage payment every year, and attach analyses that are inflated. When I dispute their calculation, they charge the miscalculations to computer errors. It is a disgrace for Bank of American to use these tactics to rob its customers like this.
Reviewed Oct. 20, 2011
BOA drafted a double mortgage payment. It has been over a week, a dozen phone calls totaling more than three hours of speaking with 'managers' about their approval process, and I have yet to have have the funds returned to my account because I don't choose to bank with BOA--and this is exactly the reason! I have closed all personal accounts and unfortunately, due to the crumbling housing market, I cannot bring my mortgage to another institution so I'm stuck dealing with the piss poor customer service of BOA. This experience resulted to mental anguish, overdraft fees, frustration, loss of wages and time that I will never get back.
Reviewed Oct. 20, 2011
I paid my mortgage online trough Bank of America payment service on 10-02-2011. The bank finished the transfer of the money 14 days later when it was too late for the payment to be made. They also charged me the late fee because of that. In every given moment, I have more than enough money in my bank account to cover the mortgage payment. The bank did hold the payment at purpose just to make my payment late.
Reviewed Oct. 19, 2011
I received a call from Bank of America's collections department informing me that my monthly payment had not been received. I checked my online bill pay and saw that the payment had been sent as expected and that Bank of America had received the money. The collections department then informed me that my mortgage payment had changed, and that it should have been reflected on my previous statement. I had my previous statement in hand which did not show any change in mortgage amount.
They then told me that although the initial payment had been made on the 1st of the month, they had waited until the 17th of the month to return my payment via snail mailed check, then called me on the 19th to tell me that they were sending me to collections. They then assessed a $100 fee that I've been unable to recoup. They claim that they informed me of the change, even though I have faxed them copies of the statements that indicate otherwise. They are unwilling to work with me to refund the late fee.
As one of the previous people noted, it's not the amount--it's the principle. The thought that they would change my mortgage amount (on a fixed rate loan, no less) without informing me in any way, then accept my payment and hold it for over two weeks before mailing it back, and then call me immediately after having moved my account to collections is an underhanded, shady business practice. Bank of America needs to be dismantled. They are a greedy, juggernaut of a bank that stole money from our pockets during the government bailout and has used it to continually destroy the things that we have worked our lives to create.
Reviewed Oct. 18, 2011
After speaking with my husband today, it is to my understanding that our file is still with the underwriter. This marks over three weeks of being on an underwriter's desk. I will not go into details as to our interesting, yet horrible experience with BOA, especially as first time home buyers. However, after speaking with Shaun ** this past Saturday, we were under the impression that our loan would officially close on 19 Oct 11. But due to our experience with BOA, we took it upon ourselves to give the later date of 21 Oct 11.
As of today, 17 Oct 11, the latest news that we received was "as long as the underwriter closes our file out on her end by Wednesday, then we are good." We have been working with BOA and awaiting an official closing date since 21 Sept 11. Right now, our living situation is very uneasy and all of this is due to the faults of Bank of America. Since we cannot seem to receive an official, definite, concrete closing date of 21 Oct 11, BOA leaves us no other choice than to request all earnest money that we have had held up on a loan that seems to have more complications on BOA's part. We will have no other choice than to seek another lender who is capable of delivering and providing the customer service and satisfaction that we deserve as first time home buyers.
Please note that this is not an email of anger, but it is one of concern, one that seeks immediate attention and one that requires more concrete answers. Please confirm by tomorrow, 18 Oct 11 by COB that we, Michael ** and Aisha **, will close on our home officially on 21 Oct 11. As of right now, we also have our items set to be delivered to a home that isn't ours. If you cannot guarantee our closing date, please let us know sooner because we cannot and will not waste anymore of our time with BOA. If you don't have a clue as to when we will close, then your actions justify our reasoning in seeking other avenues. And it will be understood that we will again receive all earnest money and your advertised assistance with closing costs.
If you have any questions or concerns, please give me a call at any time at **. I would prefer to speak with someone regarding this matter. There is no need to email a response unless it's a definite email regarding our closing date this Friday.
Reviewed Oct. 18, 2011
I called Bank of America in July. I was aware that I was 5 months behind in payments and had 3 months of payments. Bank of America refused the payments and told me they need the full amount. I was told at the time it was 5 months past due. When I asked for the full amount, they told me to call back in a couple of days and they would have the interest and penalties added in. And they said that it would have to be faxed or mailed to me. When I called back in a couple of days later and the paperwork sent out to me, they had added 2 more months. They said that I was 7 months behind. I was told that I would qualify for a Fannie Mae Modification and the process began.
I later met with a HUD agency in August. They confirmed by Bank of America's own credit reports that I was 5 months behind in payments, not 7 months. I met with Bank of America in September when they did a tour of America, working with distressed homeowners. The rep was in the process of doing a modification when I was told: “Wow, you have a lot of equity in your home. You owe $138,000 and it's valued at $218,000.” From that point forward, I was told that he could not help me and my file would be sent back to the boiler room.
That weekend, I received a letter from Bank of America. It stated that I had been turned down for the modification because they didn't receive all the paperwork. The letter stated that I was not being allowed to do a short sale and I had till October to sign a deed in lieu. When I called Bank of America, I was told that I had already signed a deed in lieu and the date it was signed. When I asked for a copy, the customer service rep said that they would not be able to send me any documentation. When I told him I had a letter requesting I sign by October, he became quiet and placed me on hold. From that point, another rep came on and said, “You didn't sign, but we will put in your file that you are not interested.”
Reviewed Oct. 17, 2011
We also have a horrible situation with Bank of America. They do deserve less than a 0 rating. We have had our mortgage loan with Bank of America (originally Countrywide) since 2005. We have an adjustable interest rate and tried to get a fixed rate back in 2009. Of course, with the decrease in home values, we were denied the option of refinancing. So, we were told to look into a loan modification. We made a few phone calls to BOA and never signed a thing. We were making our house payments on time but were worried about interest rates going up. So, we started researching loan modification.
In September of 2009, our payments started to disappear! We would make our payments to our loan. BOA was taking our payments and putting them in a holding account and not applying them to our mortgage. We were told that this was to make us look behind and to look like we were struggling. Again, they did this without our permission. We fought to get our payments released and applied to our mortgage. We too got 4 to 5 calls a day saying we weren't paying our mortgage payments. We would then call BOA and they would finally find our money and then "say" they would apply it. Most of the time, they never followed through.
So in December of 2009, we took in one of many loan modification packets sent to us, to a branch here in St. Louis. We went over the packet with a loan officer front and back. They recommended that we definitely take the offer. So, we got all of our paperwork together and got it notarized and sent it in. Well, guess what? They showed they received it and then it got lost! So then, we never got a fixed rate and then we still had payments disappearing. We continued to make our home loan payments on time each month. We finally got BOA to stop putting our payments into a separate account. They continued to have us in the home retention program, even though we never did a loan modification. Because there were late fees on the "missing" payments, they then sent one of my payments back to me, saying it was only a partial payment. It was only partial because they used it on fees. So then, late fees started to pile up.
In Sept. of 2011, they refused to take our payments because our home was in foreclosure! My payments were sent back to me and denied because they weren't the full amount due. We were in foreclosure unless we agreed to pay three house payments at once plus attorney fees! We have never seen anything like this. We paid our payments and still, we were put into foreclosure! BOA people knocked on our neighbors' doors confirming that we still lived in the home.
I too have spoken with BOA more than a thousand times in two years and have stacks and stacks of paperwork from them. We too would call in and get transferred and disconnected several times a week. No one gave me the same story each week. Nobody documented my phone calls. I had to start over from square one every time I called in. We too need help. We had excellent credit before all of this. We just make our bills each month. For BOA to try and take someone's home that is trying to pay their house payments is absolutely crazy. BOA is out of control and ruining people's lives. Please help!
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2011
In October of 2010, I began the process of a loan modification with BOA. Time after time, they asked for copies of documents that I faxed to them at a cost to myself. I would wait and call and wait and call for eight months. Then in April of 2011, we received a letter stating that they would not be able to help us. We had paid our payment every month by the grace period and our credit was still in excellent standing. We went without a lot of things (including groceries). I had been unemployed for two years and my husband had been disabled in 2005. We depleted our savings and my husband's retirement account to make the payments.
In 2007, we refinanced with Countrywide Bank because BOA would post our payments incorrectly. Only to have BOA buy out Countrywide. When you call and speak with an associate at BOA, they all sound "really happy" (not) to be working (they should be happy they have a job, unlike some of us). No one throughout the whole ordeal could tell me that the loan modification program was not for loans of Fannie Mae, for which our loan was a Fannie Mae (I found this out after doing some digging of my own). I only had $1000 for my September payment and BOA would not accept it allowing me to pay the rest (including the late fee) as I was paid by my employer. I was told it would be returned to me.
My payment was in earnest and BOA would not accept it. On September 22, I tried to pay by CC (which BOA will also not accept). So I tried to use a check against my CC using the routing number and account number from the check. I received an authorization number. On October 4th, I received a letter stating that my payment through my CC was rejected and that BOA had filed us with the credit bureau as a late payment. It took 7 days for this letter to reach me, not giving me enough time to send a check payment over night express. Thank you BOA for kicking a family when they needed you the most. I'm ready to throw my house to the curb and let the street sweeper clean it up there. BOA has the lowest rating with me.
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2011
On 2 Oct 11, I received not one, but three phone calls from Bank of America telling me that my mortgage payment was late--it was due on 1 Oct 11. I went on to tell them that I would have a direct withdrawal on my account the very next day. I was told to get some financial help and to consider a part time job! Really? People, what do you do to people who are months behind? I can only imagine. I am looking into refinancing just to get away from Bank of America. Their name is an embarrassment to the U.S.A.
Reviewed Oct. 15, 2011
We had trouble paying this house payment due to lay offs and reduced hours at work. We got behind and was told by BOA that we qualified for a modification. So, I have faxed them all of the info at least 10 times. They kept closing the review because they can't get a hold of me. I have told them to call me during the day because I work evenings. But they continue to call about an hour after I go to work. I am still waiting for the modification. It has been 11 months since I first called them for help. I never can speak to the same person twice. And you have to start all over explaining from the beginning. In one phone conversation with Bank of America, I got transferred 8 times to 8 different people and had to explain the situation to each. I still never got any help.
Reviewed Oct. 14, 2011
I applied for an MHA modification in June 2010. I faxed and FedExed in documents on 8/3/10. On 8/15/10, I received a letter from BOA that all documents had been received and the case was under review. One month later, I contacted BOA. I was informed that it sometimes takes 6 months for a modification to be completed. Every 2 months, I could contact BOA and was informed that my modification was still under review. As of 6/1/11, yes, 1 year later, my case was still supposed to be under review. The rep informed me that the longer the modification takes, the better my chances are. In August 2011, I received a letter stating that my home was going into foreclosure, even though I had been told that my case was still under review. My local BOA president contacted BOA mortgages and they could not give her any answers. If the BOA president of a local branch can't be given answer, then what?!
Reviewed Oct. 14, 2011
I am a Countrywide customer, that as we know went bankrupt in 2007. After I took out my mortgage, I had a bad illegal LIBOR loan. BAC supposedly bought my loan. However, they have no paperwork on my loan. I requested my documents over 3 times from the BAC in the past 4 years with a QWR. And until today, I have nothing. So, if they don't own my loan or can't prove it, I want them to repair my credit they destroyed by notifying the credit companies without the paperwork on my loan to do so. And I want it done immediately.
Reviewed Oct. 13, 2011
I, too, am under review for BOA mortgage loan modification. I keep calling every few days, and I have gotten no real answer. I keep being put off. I am 67 years old with loss of income. I need some answers.
Reviewed Oct. 13, 2011
I applied for a loan modification in early January, 2011 to make my home more affordable. By April 2011, I was declined for that modification and was told there was in house modification that I could apply for in which Bank of America mailed out a pre-paid FedEx envelope for required documents they needed for me to submit. I have since then mailed all required documents numerous times with the same information over and over again and I had spoken to several different people regarding my account.
Bank of America is now assigning account managers to each loan and every time I call about my account they transfer me to my account manager who never returns my phone calls or responds to my emails so therefore I don’t know what’s going on with my loan modification. Then I got a letter in the mail saying I was declined because I was missing my 2009 tax return when all she had to do was call me. Since then, I have submitted the tax return and still no answers regarding my loan and it is now October 2011.
Now I was told from a friend that works for Bank of America that since they are now assigning account mangers, they have had very little training and don’t know what to tell homeowners when they call about their account because of starting this new system. I now have a new account manager, thank god, that seems to be a little more helpful and returns my phone calls but I still have no answers yet.
Reviewed Oct. 13, 2011
Several times since February 2011, I have called Bank of America to request an extension due to workplace injury and then firing from employer. My wife is the only person working, and we have been able to make payments due to her monthly bonus from her employer. We have been struggling to make all household expenses and have not been faring well. We are using the Food Pantry, Harvesters, etc. for assistance, but are still not able to manage our finances.
We contacted assistance again and were transferred a minimum of five times to government loan assistance (1-866-880-1336). We spoke with LaQetha at extension 2942 and gave all monthly expenses/income. We were told that income was negative $800 at the end of the month, and that the request was rejected. We asked for a letter stating why our request was denied and were told that they would provide no assistance nor a letter for the reason of denial. We asked to speak to a supervisor, and after 20 minutes, we were transferred to Nicole who told us to disconnect the call and not to call again, and that she would call us back in two minutes. She still hasn't returned our call.
We went to the Bank of America website and reentered all of our information. Per their website, "Your income currently exceeds your expenses, leaving you with a monthly surplus of $140." We are only requesting to move one payment to next month, and in all that we do, the company refuses to assist us. They advertise on their website payment assistance, but how is that possible when they deny all consumers?
Reviewed Oct. 13, 2011
My story actually begins with a credit card that I have had with Bank of America since the late '90s. About one and a half years ago, I called Bank of America as I did every year prior to lower my interest rate. My interest rate on my card went from 9.6% to 21% in one billing period. When I spoke with a representative who would be assisting me and asked him for a lower interest rate, he asked if I was claiming hardship. I informed him I was not and advised him that my interest rate skyrocketed and that I was looking to see if it could be lowered. The gentleman insisted that I was claiming hardship and informed me that he would not be lowering my interest rate, but in fact cutting my credit limit. At the time I had a $23,000 limit, and I owed $9,400, and then he cut my limit to $9,600. I informed him that I had never been late on a payment and that my credit score was awesome, and that I could not understand why he was doing this. He just informed me that that is what he was doing, end of conversation.
A week later, we got a letter from Bank of America, and they also lowered my husband's credit limit.
Now, to the mortgage part of it. I received a letter that I was qualified to apply for the HARP program and to call and see what my options were as far as refinancing my home. I have an 80/20 loan originally with Countrywide, but now, unfortunately, with Bank of America. I called the number on the letter and spoke with a representative who said that I would qualify but they had to run my credit. "No problem," was my answer, as my credit had always been around 760. He got back on the phone and informed me that to qualify for the the HARP assistance, my credit score would have to be 690, but it was 687, to my surprise. I informed him of the situation regarding the credit card and he informed me that that was definitely why my credit score was impacted since I now owed more than 80% of my limits.
So, needless to say, I did not qualify for the refinance. They transferred me to another program, HAMP, and was informed again that I did not qualify since my gross income was too high. Ever since I called, I have been receiving letters from a relationship manager three to four times a week. When I call the number on the letter, it forwards me to a debt collector. If I call the customer service number, again, I get directed to the debt collector. I have no late payments for my loans or credit cards. I have never been past due, or missed a payment. I have spoken with customer service only by bypassing the system, customer service supervisors, collections, and the privacy departments trying to get these letters and calls to my home to stop. I was informed that they submitted a cease and desist form. This had been done supposedly in mid-September, October 5th and again October 13th after receiving another call and letter.
I really don't know what I can do at this point. I feel that I am being harassed. They advised me that there was nothing they could do to help me, and now will not leave me alone. All they say is it will be resolved within 72 hours. It's over a month now and still not resolved. I don't want to have to do business with Bank of America at all. I am tr ying to pay my cards off and hope that the company goes under so my loan can be purchased by another bank. I cannot refinance with another bank due to my home value being less than the loan itself because of the housing market. Please help, anyone?This would not allow no stars, but really, one star is way too many.
Reviewed Oct. 13, 2011
I would rate the experience with Bank of America Home Loans as a zero. We were requested to apply for a lower rate mortgage during a business transaction at our neighborhood branch. During the course of application for the refinance loan, we discussed our Line of Credit Loan (HELOC) that accompanied this property (also held by Bank of America). We were informed that the conditions of the HELOC were grandfathered in and were in no way affected by this application for refinance. The Bank of America loan agent went further to say that this was a great rate and condition and that you wouldn't want to make any changes to the terms of the HELOC.
Now after closing, we found out that we signed a paper at closing (no copies provided during closing or since almost 2 weeks ago) that allowed an adjustment of the interest rate on the HELOC. When I called to rectify the situation I was told that I signed the document during closing allowing this and that he would gladly close the HELOC if that is what I wanted.
I requested that they do as they said and leave the HELOC out of the primary loan refinance. I have no paperwork showing that this was going to occur. What are my choices for making this bank honor their words?
Reviewed Oct. 12, 2011
My mortgage is with BOA and they should have an O rating. Since it was bought out from Countrywide, we have never been late and my credit rating was very good. We have always paid more on our mortgage by at least $160.00. On our July payment, which we have paid through our banks bill pay, my wife meant to key in $3,500.00 instead of the $3,800.00 she had been paying. We did not realize it at the time.
I happened to need a copy of my mortgage statement 1098, due to such problems caused by the mistake made by the one in-charge of our tax matter. I went to a branch in Kansas City, where I worked at the time, and ask for the copy. I was then told that we had not sent our payment for July so our account was locked. I called my wife to ask if she had made the payment and she told me she had. I called up the BOA Mortgage Department to speak with someone and I got what I thought was a very helpful woman. She checked the account and said that they had received a payment but it was for $3,500.00 instead of the $3,629.90 which was our mortgage due including taxes and insurance. The woman told me to send in the difference with the late fee so my wife sent $260.00 out on the same day. A day or two later, a very rude man called us up and said that he was returning our $3,500.00 check because they do not accept partial payment. The next day, we received a check from BOA in the mail for the $3,500.00. Up to this day, we have not received back the $260.00. When August 1 came, I sent out the August payment for $3,700.00 through our bill pay.
Feeling that we were not treated fairly, I contacted the office of the CEO and spoke with a man who also seemed very willing to help us fix this matter. When he looked up the account, he told us that he would help us out. He said that he would deduct the late fee and that they had already received our August payment. He had seen the $3,500.00 that had been sent back and also the $260.00 we had sent in. He told me to send the payment back in the amount of $3,169.80 and he would deduct the $260.00, credit the $130.00 late fee and the difference in the $3,700.00 we had sent in against the mortgage due which should be $3,629.90. He said to just round it off to $3,200.00. I sent that amount in that same day again through our bill pay. I never heard anything else since then and we thought everything was fine.
On September 3, we paid our September payment by bill pay for $3,700.00 even if our grace period is through the 16th of the month. Again, thinking everything was fine, my husband called up and spoke with someone in the Customer Service to ask if we could split the payment into two payments. They agreed and instructed him to pay the first on October 1, and the second on October 13.
On September 21,2011,BOA directly deposited our September payment of $3,700.00 back into our account. On September 29, 2011, on the advise of a friend who works for a BOA branch in another city , we were told to go into the closet BOA branch who was Homestead, Fl to ask him to sit down with us, contact the Manager of the Mortgage branch of the bank, and see if we could get this fixed. We then spoke with the Manager. She told us that we had not paid our September payment and if we sent out $3,759.98 which covered mortgage plus another late fee (even though we were not late), we would be up to date for September. She also told us to just send out the regular payment for October which I did. I send the 1st half according to the arrangement I had with the customer service, and on October 9, I sent out the second half.
Wanting to be sure everything was fine with the payments, I called our bank to see if any payments had returned. I was then told that they had refused our payment of $3,759.98 that they received on October 6, 2011 for our September payment, which the Manager of the Mortgage Department had told us to send out. It is now the 12th of October and it has yet to be redeposited back into our account. We have also not heard anything yet about the $,3629.90 that we sent out for October.
I called today and spoke with another woman who said that if we pay $3,759.98, we would be caught up. Again I asked about paying twice a month and this woman then transferred me to another woman who said that she was in charge of setting up the payment plans. She also said that she set it up for the 1st and the 16th of the month which will now be taken out by them automatically.
I was hoping that this is now settled but after reading all the complaints that are similar to ours, I am worried that they will continue to keep our money and not apply it to our account. This is absolutely outrageous that they are getting away with this kind of practice - keeping thousands of dollars and charging hundreds of dollars in late fees when payment were made on time but sent back by them..
Reviewed Oct. 12, 2011
I applied and was approved for a TPP with BofA. Four months later, after I successfully completed the TPP, I was denied, stating that I made too much money. This was incorrect and there was nothing to substantiate the information. I tried to appeal the decision, but they said that I only had a 30-day window. I explained that I did not receive the denial letter for 113 days. I have exhausted all resources and am at the mercy of the bank's "negotiators" and underwriters."
I am now in foreclosure and in the process of a review, as I reapplied and sent in current documents. The bank will not take my payments as of August and I feel that they have the ability to decline this modification due to the deficit. I have continued to make the TPP payments as that is all I could afford.
Reviewed Oct. 12, 2011
I was diagnosed with cancer last year and on Aug 2010 I asked for a modification loan. BoA was to send a packet FedEx, and asked me to call back in 11 days if i hadn't received it. I kept calling them back for several months and no packet had arrived. On Oct 3, I spoke to Sumeria and she told me that a new packet was on the way. Yesterday was the 11th day so I called again. After speaking to several persons, there were no notes regarding the packet. I got disconnected several times. The third person, Brittney, gave me a hard time. She told me that the bottom line was a foreclosure and that I had no choice.
I asked her why they hadn't sent me a packet and she said that it was never sent out. I told her about my hardship with the cancer and my sister's death in Nov 2010 and she said that cancer and death had nothing to do with my mortgage. So I said, "So, you guys would just throw a cancer patient out in the streets?", and she said if they had to they would. I then asked her what type of hardships was required for a modification loan and she told me that I had no options. Here we are today, with a foreclosure date of Nov 11, 2011.
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2011
My husband lost his job due to the economy. I knew I was going to have trouble making my payments with one income. Bank of America told me I would qualify for the modification loan. They sent me the paperwork. I filled everything out and provided them with everything they asked for. I called to make sure they got the packet via Fed Ex and they advised me it was there. I called them 30 days later and it was in review. I was told to call back in 2 weeks. I did so. It was still in review and the underwriters were reviewing it. I called back in 2 weeks. This went on for almost a year. All of a sudden, my paperwork was missing and they showed no record of me ever applying. They said they would send new paperwork to me, and we could start over. The paperwork still hasn't shown up.
Reviewed Oct. 11, 2011
Let me clear this right away with the fact that BOA would get no stars from me. BOA bought out our loan from Country Wide and Poplar. In doing so, they started harassing me and my ex husband about missed payments, which in fact had not been transferred from one company to the other. It is not our issue. We paid who were were told to until the date we were given. Next after our divorce, the house was awarded to me along with the debts. I tried to immediately get the loan assumption. I haven't had issue paying. But because I had all the home debt and no "job", they would not help. Every few months for the last two years, I have been trying to refinance etc. with no luck due to several reasons, one being the drastic loss in value of the home. It has gone down $60,000 in the last six months alone.
So now, I get my income stable (by their terms) and they are stalling on getting me the paperwork. The one call I made to ask for modification information only got my account locked pending review. I could not make payments nor did anyone who I talked to for months (while making payments by phone) explain why I could no longer pay online. Finally, someone told me, “Oh, there is a lock.” I was beyond angry. I told them that all I asked for was information that I had not made any plans for modification. I also told them that before any smart person would do something like that, they needed to read the details and find out what it is all about. They unlocked my account. Now this time, I asked again for the assumption paperwork and they froze my online payments. I got them figured out though. I paid through my bank. The divorce papers states I that I need my ex off mortgages by two years. It is taking this long to hear nothing and get no help. I can't put it on the market. I can not recoup what is owed.
Reviewed Oct. 10, 2011
BofA misplaced my mortgage payments when they are made then they proceed to call, hang up, harass, and never follow through or up when I call back and give them all the information that they have received the payment.
Every month we send out the payment via the bank to BofA to their posted address at least seven days before the payment is due. Then I get a call from them that they haven't received the payment, that is, when they don't hang up on me when they call which is nine out of 10 times.
When I get an attendant, I get some poor excuse on why they can't help me. When I finally get someone useful, I send them the information and they said they would get back to me with what they found out. They never do and their claim department keeps calling. And my bank shows that they cashed the payment.
Reviewed Oct. 9, 2011
Bank of America should be rated less than 0. I have had a mortgage, a credit card and a car loan. Currently, I still have the credit card and the car loan. I have never had a late payment and for as long as I can remember, I have paid more than the minimum. Every time I go to make my care payment it for a different amount. When I signed that paperwork, it was for a set amount. A couple of months ago it was $40.00 less then it for the most current payment even though I have paid extra over the course of the loan.
My biggest concern is that when I went on line to check the account due it indicated that my next payment was not due until November. It is actually due tomorrow. I am sure this is just a great way of scamming people so they can charge a late fee, as well as change the payments, as well as the interest. Bank of America really needs to be reviewed by a higher authority. I thought that there had been government regulations put in place, so that the banks could not play these games. Trying to make payment online is almost impossible. I cannot make a payment today and have it posted tomorrow. On all of my other cards, I can put my payment in today and it will post the next day. This is just another way they can ensure your payment is last. I cannot wait to pay off my accounts but currently being unemployed, but still making payments so I can maintain my credit score for the future. This bank makes it as difficult as possible for any of us to get ahead.
Reviewed Oct. 9, 2011
My husband and I bought our first home, a condo in 2006. We could afford our home loan and had steady jobs. When the economy crashed a few years later, my husband lost his job in construction and so did I. We worked with a top rated real estate agent in Snohomish County to plan out our options to keep our home. We made a plan to use our savings to keep making our mortgage payment while my husband looked for work or if we absolutely had to, find renters. Eight months passed by and my husband finally found work again! By this time, we had used almost all of our savings to make the $1540.00 mortgage payment along with the $165 HOA dues each month.
We decided to list the condo for short sale at the one year mark since we had depleted our savings trying to keep our home. The bank had told us we did not qualify for the government Making Homes Affordable Programs, etc. This was very stressful for us as we have always had perfect credit and we were worried this might not go as planned. So here we are, almost 2 years later, after trying four short sales, the bank denied and still not in foreclosure. We had buyers that were ready to buy our condo at a fair market value as assessed and BOA turned down these offers one way or another.
Each time, they wanted more money than the condo was worth --even though our agent showed them comparables and other sales in the area/complex. We tried to do a Deed in Lieu and BOA canceled that without notice within weeks of our closing date on it. They said there was an error on their end and canceled it without telling us! I feel so taken advantage of and here we are years later, unable to do a thing. I have thought about hiring a lawyer. We just don't have the money to do so. I feel like it must be illegal for them to hold us like this, unable to do anything. Please, someone help us! Our credit used to be perfect and has gotten worse with each passing month.
Reviewed Oct. 8, 2011
On 9/12/2011, I made a payment directly from my bank account (a local bank not BOA) to BOA Mortgage. My payment is $374.10 but I mistyped the amount as $347.10. BOA returned the payment and then charged me a late fee, and then 2 weeks later, they sent me a notice of intent to for close on my account! I made a payment and they refused to accept it because I transposed two numbers, and rather than notifying me that I had made the check for the wrong amount, they held it for nearly two weeks before returning it. There was no explanation, as to why the check was returned, I had to call them to find out why they were sending me a check. This company is ridiculous. It harasses its customers, keeps "partial" payments long enough to collect interest on them then returns them and charges a late fee, earning them even more money! Then, they turn around and threaten to foreclose for failure to pay, when I did pay, they just refused to apply it to my loan because this is their new practice, according to their customer service. I, as a consumer, was never informed of this policy.
Reviewed Oct. 8, 2011
I lost my job of 12 years due to the economy. I knew I was going to have trouble making my payments with my new job. B of A told me I would qualify for the modification loan. They sent me the paperwork. I filled everything out and provided them with everything they asked for. I called them 30 days later and it was in review. I was told to call back in 2 weeks. I did so. It was still in review. I called back in 2 weeks. This went on for almost a year. All of a sudden, my paperwork was missing and they showed no record of me applying. They said they would send new paperwork to me and we could start over. The paperwork still hasn't shown up. I have been waiting a year and have made at least 2 requests since then.
Now it's been over 2 years since my first contact with them and nothing has happened. I have been trying to keep up on payments but have been 1-2 months behind. Currently, I am 8 days late (it is Oct 8th). And they call me 4-5 times a day. I find this very harassing. And it's always the same questions. Don't they read the notes from the previous call? I also have been adding a little to each payment and they keep sending me the overage back. I do not want to lose my home. And I am trying so hard to keep up, not just with the mortgage. I wish they would sell my account to another lender, like back to Countrywide. They were nicer to work with. Like a lot of the people on here, I can relate and have encountered a lot of the same stuff. I am so irritated with them. And if they catch me at the wrong time, the poor person on the other end gets an earful. Any advise would be very helpful. How do I get them off my back?
Reviewed Oct. 8, 2011
A bit over six months ago, my son went through a very difficult period financially. He got behind in making his mortgage payments, during which we tried to work with Bank of America Mortgage in renegotiating the mortgage, postponing some payments or any other help they could give. The first call generated a suggestion that we could renegotiate the loan, but would need to pay close to $1,400 to bring the mortgage "up to date". They sent a one page application and were asked to send it in with the $1,400. My son and I filled the form out and he went to a local branch of the bank. There, he found out that the $1,400 was a "fee" to process the loan. By now, the home was just a week or so from foreclosure. He said that he would rather bring the loan current. However, no one could tell him what the past due amount was. He called me (I'm in Mexico) and asked that I call BofA to get an amount. I called four times, got four different answers, I asked what the per diem was for the loan and no one knew what I was talking about. No one could give me the correct code at Western Union to send the money and we still had no idea what that amount was. I got transferred so many times I lost count. I got disconnected so many times I lost count.
We saved the home from foreclosure proceeding by a matter of 24 hours, when I threatened to keep calling until I got an answer, as to how much to pay and how to pay it. Since the experience was so harrowing, my son vowed never to go through that again. Now, he goes to a BofA branch, makes his payments in cash (not checks, not money orders...cash) and gets a receipt. He pays on the first of each month and has every receipt for every payment. I just received a notice that the house is going into foreclosure, unless the account "is brought current" immediately. The branch manager told my son that she remembers him going and making his payments each month. We told a BofA rep that we have all the receipts. Her response was, "well, we can accept your payments over the phone. Would that be a credit card or a debit card? "My background is in lending, real estate and mortgage loan origination. I know exactly what I'm talking about and I know exactly what to do. The problem is BofA. I have come to believe that they have no interest in helping. Rather, now that they got their bailout money, they have been told to increase their bottom line even more by getting rid of their mortgage loan portfolio. Of course, my credit (which was impeccable) is now ruined. I have no chance of moving my loan.
Reviewed Oct. 7, 2011
Bank of America
Be advised that I am forwarding this letter as a formal complaint concerning a recent loan modification application that through no fault of my own somehow went seriously awry. The facts are as follows:
In August of 2010, I retained an attorney to represent my interest in applying for the aforementioned loan modification with Bank of America. Initially, it appeared that said attorney was successful in the incipient stages of the submission process. However, for reasons unknown to me, the attorney failed to pursue the application to fruition. As a result, and replete with fear that I could possibly lose my home, in March of 2011, I contacted Bank of America with the intention of continuing the process of applying for a loan modification on my own behalf. I was appraised at that time and Edward Cervantes was assigned as my case counselor.
During the next several months, I was led to believe, albeit duplicitous, by Mr. Cervantes that my application was being meticulously processed with the utmost efficiency and alacrity. I was assured that the loan would be approved. However in retrospect, it was at that juncture in time, that the entire process unraveled. I was suddenly informed that documentation that I previously submitted was somehow never received. I was told that said documentation had to be re-submitted, along with additional documentation, as the 60 day deadline concerning same had expired. Needless to say, I was totally taken aback by this incredible assertion, especially since in July of 2011, I was surprised by Mr. Cervantes that all necessary documentation had in fact been received, and that a final package was then being submitted to Bank of America to await final approval. What made this situation even more incredulous was the fact that Mr. Cervantes went as far as to applaud me for taking the time to compile such a consummate, assiduous, and proficient application.
Suddenly and without warning, all communication between myself and Mr. Cervantes inexplicably broke down. In early August of 2011, I made numerous attempts to contact him in an attempt to rectify this horrendous situation; only to be constantly forwarded to his voice mail. It was only after leaving several stern messages that he finally attempted to reach me at my place of employment by leaving a message on my voice mail. He provided me with a new extension where he could be reached. Again, needless to say, my calls went unanswered; forcing me to once again leave voice mail messages pleading for a return call. I provided Mr. Cervantes with several contact numbers along with my loan number and home address. Realizing that any further attempts to contact Mr. Cervantes would be fruitless, I began calling the Bank of America customer service.
On August 12, 2011, I was finally notified by a Bank of America customer service representative that my modification loan had been denied for failing to submit documentation in a timely manner. Taking into consideration the above scenario, and the fact that I submitted no fewer than 300 documents, you could imagine both my frustration and anger. I was devastated to say the least.
Once again, I began the arduous and extremely frustrating task of attempting to contact Mr. Cervantes on a daily bases. This time I went as far as to completely humble myself and beg him for a return call. As of this date (October 7, 2011) I have yet to hear from him. At this point in time being consummately dejected as a result of this disconcerting experience I began what one might describe, as an incessant campaign to reach someone in authority to render assistance in this matter. To my complete and utter dissatisfaction, all I was afforded with was multiple Bank of America customer service representatives who began a process of providing me with extemporaneous conflicting information. Even my request for written verification as to why my loan was denied was met with for a lack of a better term defiance and I was told that authority to send such a written reply was nonexistent.
I would like to further assert that the way I was treated, along with the unscrupulous machinations I was confronted with and made a victim of by Mr. Cervantes and in part from Bank of America, was disgraceful and outlandish. I thought until now, I had seen all types and levels of deceit in my time, but the treatment I received was not only unprofessional and mendacious, but in addendum has also rarely been my experience to encounter.
Therefore, I am making a last ditch attempt to plead with Bank of America to please have someone of authority contact me, so that we can come to some sort of rectification in this matter and preclude any further hardship to me and my family.
Sincerely,Tommy **
Reviewed Oct. 7, 2011
My husband and I were trying to refinance our home at a lower rate in order to fix our finances after being laid off -- me for 1 1/2 year and my husband for 6 months (during the same period). We were approved pending on the appraisal of the home. It was well above the amount needed. We started this process at the end of July.
The process was turned over to Karen ** in Charlotte, NC. She gave me the impression from the beginning that she did not want to do this loan. From this point on, we were told each week that we will close but we still need "this and that", and more and more paperwork. It was dragged out until the credit report they had expired. I told them from the beginning that it would drop if it's not finished. This is what happened and we were denied the refinance. If it had been done in a timely manner like we were promised, we would have closed. But I believe they just decided that we were not important enough to work with.
Reviewed Oct. 7, 2011
I have been trying to get a loan modification since November 2010. I asked for the paperwork to be mailed to me over and over again. It took 2 months for them to FedEx it to me. Every time I talked to someone, they told me to submit different info and had no idea that I had already talked to many people there. In the mean time, I was contacted by a third party, Commercial Loan Solutions, to help me. I was hesitant at first, but because I was getting nowhere, I hired them for $2800.00 to be paid in 3 payments. I have paid the first 2 and still owe them $933.00 when the modification is complete.
I have to say that my representative Nora has been absolutely awesome even though we have been trying to get this done since December 2010. I know this company is legitimate since I have been able to contact a couple of people in the retention department of BoA and they can read me the notes and correspondence from Nora in their database, plus they have not asked me for the last payment and have not tried to debit my bank account. Even though we keep following through on what BOA wants, my file keeps getting cancelled for no good reason and we have to start again! This has been the most frustrating and anxiety-driven thing I have ever been through. I have not made a payment since November 2010 and I blame BoA. This could have been settled and trial payments have been made for months now, but since I am so far behind, at this point I don't know where to begin, and I am afraid to start to pay anything at this point only to lose it to foreclosure. I am so angry and frustrated, I am willing to go before a judge to let him decide if BoA is doing their job. I can bring all my paperwork and let them see how many times I have faxed and talked to and have received FedEx packages and responded to them. I am 5' 4" and the paper work I have is taller than me. This is so ridiculous, I can't see how they can get away with what they are doing to good people who have fallen into some bad economic times. People who now want to and are able to try and save their homes with new income and jobs.
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2011
My mortgage was paid off on 1 Oct 11 but they still took out my monthly payment out of my bank account on 3 Oct 11. I had to pay $15 for BofA's mistake to have a stop payment put on all future direct withdrawals from my account and file forms with my bank to get my money back. BofA said that it would be faster if I went through my bank instead of having them do it, as I needed a letter from my bank stating that they will not refund funds to BofA, along with my statement, showing that the money was taken out of my account. It's not about the fee, it's about the principle.
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2011
My mother went to open an account with B of A last year. She is 80 years old. The local B of A branch offered her a higher interest rate, a cash incentive, and no fees if she opened and kept a minimum savings account balance and also opened a checking account. The account manager attempted to place the opening deposits to disqualify my mother from the fee-free accounts. My mother saw this and pointed this out. The manager ignored her comments and continued to process the accounts with the improper amounts, probably thinking that the 80 year old woman she was working with would just acquiesce.
My mother told her to stop what she was doing and asked for the forms that she was filling out. My mother pointed out the errors and had to argue with the account manager about what the proper amounts should be. The accounts eventually were opened with the proper incentive deposited and set up for no fees. One month later, my mother closed the account and moved it to Citibank where they did not try to con her. This is proof that B of A employees are predatory thieves and opportunists.
Reviewed Oct. 6, 2011
I have submitted documents after documents to obtain help and direction. I have not been contacted regarding a modification or any other type of help. I do not want to lose my home. The home was left to me in my mother's last will and testament back in 2007 when my mother died unexpectedly. The mortgage is in her name alone. It was transferred to Bank of America from First Franklin Mortgages. I am just looking for assistance. Please help.
Reviewed Oct. 5, 2011
I have been denied the cancellation of an impound account on my mortgage. I was told that 12 months of "no lates" would constitute deleting the impounds. They now say 14 months later that their so-called "Guidelines" have changed, and the impounds will remain for the life of the loan (25+) years. I was never notified of this change either in writing or by certified mail. And I'm now paying over $500.00 a month for this, and it may default in the future. I want the world to know what a bunch of crooks BofA is!
Reviewed Oct. 5, 2011
I received loan approval to refinance my existing loan with Bank of America. One week later, I received a call from processor that I had one day to send in information. Otherwise, the loan would expire. The information requested had already been sent. The processor then acknowledged she did have that information, but now she asked for new additional information. I sent an email and called to clarify what she wanted. I have never heard from her again. I contacted the person at Bank of America who took the application. He has tried to get information on the status of the loan and no one will return his emails or calls.
Reviewed Oct. 4, 2011
I have been trying to refinance my home with Bank of America, which currently holds the mortgage on my home. I have made every mortgage payment since 1997, have good credit, money in the bank, steady income and a small loan to refinance. We started at the end of May 2011. I was told by the end of July that we would definitely close - many paperwork faxes, refaxes, updates, and restructuring of the loan by BoA. We are still waiting with no updates. It has been near impossible to get a hold of anyone who can give us an answer, just the standard "It's in underwriting" from our processor. This is just insanity.
Reviewed Oct. 4, 2011
I am getting calls night and day from Bank of America. They said I am behind on my mortgage--3 days behind! Payment is in the mail, and with the weekend, they should be getting it today. They are desperate for cash, I think, and may be ready to collapse. Can you think of any other reason for calls every 2 hours to get a 3-day late bill?
They are still calling, even though I have told them the check is in the mail. They said they will continue to call until they get the money.
Reviewed Oct. 4, 2011
I took out a mortgage with Bank of America on December 29, 2010. While in my loan closing, I had to provide all information on my homeowner’s insurance for the property. I had Safeco Insurance, and I paid the premium until July 9, 2011, All the paperwork was given before I could even close on my mortgage. In April 2011, Bank of America force placed my insurance through Balboa Insurance for $507.00. No one from Bank of America called to see if I had insurance. They just took the money from my escrow account and paid it to Balboa.
I did not receive anything in the mail saying it was switched. I stopped in to a Safeco Insurance office to give them my new cell phone number on September 14, 2011, and that was when I was told I no long have a policy with them because Bank of America did not pay the premium that was due on July 9, 2011. I explained to her that I never authorized this; I have made all my payments to Bank of America, and how could it happen and et cetera. She told me to contact the bank.
As soon as I left the Safeco office, I called Bank of America. I explained to about 8 different customer service representatives my problem; all of them told me I was wrong, and not one of them could help me. I then called the corporate office. I explained to Marc ** the whole situation. He said he would get back to me. He did get back to me. He told me it was an error made by Bank of America, and that he would credit my escrow account the money they took from it to pay the Balboa Insurance company. I then told him that I don't want Balboa, and I want to be back with Safeco the company. I agreed to pay when I signed my closing documents.
Marc told me that Safeco's premiums have gone from what I was paying $510.00 a year to $849.00 a year, and that he couldn't make up the difference, so I would have to figure it out. I explained to him that I shouldn't be responsible to pay the difference because of a mistake that his company made. He told me he couldn't help any further, so I asked for his boss. I was told there is no way I will ever speak to his boss. I did some research, and his boss is Robbie **, but there is no phone number to contact him.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2011
I was contacted by a Bank of America rep stating that I qualify for a refinance of my current mortgage. I felt that my home was too under water, but was assured that based on the info he had, I would qualify. He said that at most, I would be liable for the cost of the appraisal to complete the refinance process.
Appraisal was ordered and came back way under value, as I expected. I just received a denial of loan refinance due to insufficient property funds, after I was assured that I would qualify. So basically I got duped, and now I am out of almost $500 for the appraisal fees. I am not happy, and am going to request a refund. I want to report this as it is a not good business practice.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2011
I have recently made a payment on two mortgages at the Bank of America branch in Westford. Only one amount was applied to one mortgage. The remaining amount of $725.00 was not applied to the second mortgage payment. Only one check was written for both transactions and the teller at the bank appropriated the funds correctly as I have the receipts. I have called BoA and no one has returned my calls. I have requested an audit one week ago and I am still getting calls threatening foreclosure proceedings. Please advise.
Reviewed Oct. 3, 2011
I was a first time buyer and I am one of the last to get an 80/20 loan back in 2006 then the market collapsed. I changed jobs and took a pretty good hit in pay and was struggling to make payments. After hearing about the loan modification last year, I went ahead and filed for it. I did everything I was told to do and made the now reduced payment for several months, only to get denied because I grossed too much money. They hit me with $3000 to catch up on my loan payments or face foreclosure.
I was never late with any of my payments and after reducing my payments, I was still on time with them, however, BOA intentionally made my payments late. If there is any way I can get away from BOA, I will do anything to do so.
Reviewed Oct. 2, 2011
Bank of America's rating is less than 0 with me. Like thousands of others, I have been in 3 trial loan modifications for 22 months with Bank of America. The latest garbage is Bank of America sending me a Debt Validation Notice for $20K, more than what is shown on my principle balance online or in my mailed statements. I called the phone # provided, to no avail, no one knew anything or could not help get me to someone who could.
I have been dealing with the Office of the President, at Bank of America, for over a year and they were no help either. I wrote a letter of dispute, as per the instructions in the letter I received from Bank of America. I sent it certified mail and return receipt requested. I received a reply from Bank of America dated July 22, 2011, that it would send a complete answer in 20 business days. It never happened.
After many phone calls, I finally received a call from a representative last Friday, September 30th. She told me the debt validation had been revised to show I now owe $10K more than my current principle balance shown online because I had made some trial payments during that time. I did not make $10K worth of payments and insisted she send me detailed documentation of the additional fees and/or charges to my account. She stated she could only send me a copy of my transaction history and it may or may not be the same as I can view online. This is a direct violation of FTC regulations. They also had me pay them 3 more trial payments, while not providing any information, which is another FTC violation.
Reviewed Oct. 2, 2011
We refinanced our home in 8/2007 with Quicken Loans with a fixed rate. Payments were made to Countrywide Home Loans. Then, they were bought out by Bank of America. Bank of America turned around and changed our loan to a variable rate. I just received another letter with a "variable rate statement". Our payment has gone up twice, from $1182 to $2016/month! I kept telling them I have the original loan paperwork. I sent them copies etc., showing we have a fixed rate. Still, BOA has done nothing! Can they legally change the terms of an original loan?
Reviewed Oct. 1, 2011
I lost my job and was jobless for 1.5 years. I was not able to make payments on my mortgage. As soon as I found a job, I contacted the Bank of America and let them know that I don't want to lose the house, and now, that I've got a job, I can start making payments and catch up. I was approximately 6 months behind. I started making payments again and adding extra money to each payment with hopes to catch up. Unfortunately, they told me that they would not accept any "partial" payments, so I was "supposed to" save the extra money each month and send them an "extra full payment" along with the one I was sending on a regular basis.
No one gave me any "time frame", any "minimum or maximum" requirements, etc. There was nothing written down. After several payments, I received a phone call, letting me know that I am in foreclosure, and even if I send a payment, they would not accept it anymore.
Reviewed Sept. 30, 2011
I had a mortgage on a property in Northern California. I purchased the house in 8/2005. At that time, it was before the housing market collapse and I easily qualified for 100% financing. The original junior lender was Countrywide and it was set up by my broker as a HELOC. This, however, was only used at closing for purchase money only on the house.
After the market collapse and loss of income, I was facing foreclosure in 2009. I attempted a short sale. I had many offers and the primary was easily approved, but the Bank of America (the junior), who took over Countrywide, would not approve. They were even confused about the loan history even though it was a simple 80/20. A one-time transaction without the HELOC even being touched other than upon origination to purchase the home. BofA was even trying to claim they were the primary.
Reviewed Sept. 30, 2011
I was approved for a loan modification. It was canceled now. I am so far behind and I can't catch up. I was misled and lied to daily. Now, they won't return my calls at all. My home will be foreclosed because they won't work with me to get their mistakes fixed.
Reviewed Sept. 29, 2011
We applied over a year ago when we knew that hardship was going to happen. A year later, still nothing, and no one will ever contact you. I have tried for about a month to talk to the new person in charge of our in-house modification. I have had associates email her because I would love to take legal action. I just don't know the way to go about this.
Reviewed Sept. 28, 2011
I had a refinanced loan with Countrywide. Bank of America took over Countrywide. I lost half of my income and fell behind in my payments. I had the money to reinstate the loan last year, but Bank of America representatives told me not to reinstate the loan, but to pay off debt to qualify for a loan modification. I did just that. Now they tell me that I do not qualify for a loan modification, and they are going to auction my house off. Depending upon whom I talk to, either I am qualified for a loan modification, or there is no chance I can keep my home.
I even have letters from Bank of America stating that I am qualified for the Home Affordable Modification Program. When I called Bank of America about the letters, they told me that everyone gets those letters and that they do not mean anything. What kind of business is Bank of America? They are cruel, unscrupulous liars that only want to perpetuate their customer's misery. I did not want to have a Bank of America loan in the first place because of the culture of lies and deceptive business practices. It is time to get a lawyer, I suppose, or I will lose my home of twenty-five years.
Reviewed Sept. 28, 2011
We signed a contract between KB Home and their partner, Bank of America. We had some delays because of the scoring and accuracy of my credit rating. We would have been a first time home buyer, and KB helped me select a home that would fit my needs for my entire family. After numerous delays, loss of my paperwork, transfers between offices, loan officers constantly requiring more and more information, both of us were approved all the way through. The construction started, more delays, and with thirty days before we close, BOA decided to pull out of the housing mortgage (as we're told), and construction stops overnight.
Reviewed Sept. 27, 2011
I have had a mortgage 1st and 2nd lien fixed rate loan with escrows waived since 2004 with BOA. Last year, I was injured on my 17-year job with Macy's and I had bought the additional coverage with BOA when I originally purchased my loan, which was thousands of additional dollars. BOA coverage was for if I became disabled, my mortgage payments would be covered for a period of up to 12 months, excluding taxes and insurance which I paid on my own and have since I originally signed my mortgage documents. It has been a constant nightmare with constant phone calls to BOA, never speaking to the same person and never getting anywhere except floods of letters from BOA adding more and more fees, late charges, past due amounts and adding forced hazard insurance when I already had it.
Due to my brain injury and the lack of knowledge of mortgage industry, my once fixed rate mortgage of $900 estimates a month has now escalated to $1600.00 plus; not knowing why or how this could happen. I was getting ready to just waive my flag and lose my home. Then, I had a friend came over who has worked in the mortgage industry for 25+ years for Countrywide, which my friend stated was lending out of the box and funding loans at the end of the month before a borrower had even signed their loan documents, just to make their numbers. We reviewed my thousands of correspondence with BOA which I carefully kept and has grown to 3 file boxes in a little of 12 months. She stated that there was no way my loan payments double on a fixed rate loan.
After reviewing the most recent document sent to me stating that if I do not pay the entire amount of what they state I owe, my friend found that they sent me an escrow account disclosure with incorrect hazard insurance premium amount being collected twice a year and property, county and city taxes due in December; which put me in a shortage in an escrow account that I do not even have with BOA of $7500.00 estimate. They divided that by 12 and added it to my mortgage payments and since they showed taxes are due in December, I was told by BOA that I had to pay the majority of shortage by Dec.
I, as a borrower, do not have a clue on how why or what this document means and why it was all of a sudden generated by someone in BOA and sent to me. When I went to pay my September regular mortgage payment, BOA refused to take it unless it was the full amount that they stated I owed due to the initial escrow account disclosure being generated by someone at BOA, for no particular reason. Now when I try to call one of the 4 different numbers that they put on their correspondence to me, the customer service person who answers just simply states I need to remit the amount owed. The employee doesn't even have a clue of what I am talking about. They are trying to start foreclosure on Oct. 10.
Reviewed Sept. 27, 2011
In July 2009 I applied for HAMP modification. Trial period plan payments were to be made on or before 11/1/09, 12/1/09 and 1/1/10. I made all payments in time. In March, I received a letter of default claiming I did not make my first payment. That’s when it started. There’s too much to write here.
As of 9/27/11 there still is no modification. I faxed hundreds of documents and hours on the phone and have gotten nowhere. I received a letter from the President of BOA, Advocacy Dept. stating that after an investigation my payment was found on 10/6/10 and applied to trial pmts.
Reviewed Sept. 25, 2011
I have filed a complaint with the Indiana State Attorney Generals Office about the unfair business practices of Bank of America. How they are trying to foreclose on my home loan even when I am not 30 days late and that because I have a small late charge balance that was brought over from a lender that I was previously with and I am currently paying on. This late charges were supposed to have been waved and there were not. I have done everything that Bank of America wants to try to take care of this matter and they still want more problems for me. I feel that I have rights as a consumer that pays my mortgage payments every month. I have entered into an informal repayment agreement with Bank of America and have honored my agreement. They still insist on reporting me as delinquent on my loan when in reality, I am not even 30 days late for the current month. This is unfair to good people who do pay their bills.
I just received a correspondence from the CEO of Bank of America from the complaint that I filed with The Indiana State Attorney Generals Office. He has twisted the truth so that Bank of America looks good and that I am being called a liar. He is stating that I am behind on my loan; I am not! I only owe for the month of September. The repayment agreement that I am currently in with Bank of America is that my loan payment is not due until the 3rd of each month. The agreement that I am currently in also is that Bank of America will report me to the credit agencies. I paid as agreed and current. Mr. ** tells me that I am delinquent. This is far from the truth! I feel that something needs to be done about these unfair business practices of Bank of America to home loan mortgage customers. They are in the business of taking good people's homes from them. This has to stop!!
Reviewed Sept. 25, 2011
(Being required to give Bank of America 1 star made me sick. Where are the > numbers?) I have reviewed on this site the descriptions of the experiences of customers trying to do business with Bank of America. Unfortunately, reading them made my blood pressure rise as I could related to every, single one of them. Like me, it seems many of these people have been trying to do the right thing and are responsible citizens caught in difficult financial times who are trying to save their health and their homes. I have also experienced the extreme abusive practices of this company; whether caused by conspiracy or history-making mismanagement, in my opinion, needs to be held accountable for the emotional suffering as well as the sucking of physical energy from us.
I've been working on this painstakingly and intensely since November 2010. I am an unemployed marketing executive, single mom who's decided to beat the odds and start her own business. I feel like only >25% of my emotional energy can be devoted to motherhood and job hunt (the latter, of which, will get me out of my situation). I feel determined, angry, ambitious but also so very tired and confused and I don't see how someone in my condition could put their best foot forward to get a job (just interview preparations are so difficult because I'm so unhappy right now). I'm convinced that Bank of America should be held accountable for holding captive valuable, employable, loyal, responsible, educated citizens; keeping them from getting the right jobs that will help them regain their financial standing. I keep praying: "If BofA will just give me some peace...I can get back on my feet." But no...the Hell continues.
NACA (naca.com) can't seem to crack this one for me (been with them since June), my home is up for it's first auction date on Oct. 6, which could mean that my baby and I will be out on the street by Thanksgiving. How nice. Actions that might help you?
HUD: Set up to direct consumers to advocacy groups. I didn't find HUD very helpful beyond getting me started on my path to document sending/losing/following up/sending/losing/calling Hell.
NACA: If you think you have a straight forward situation, this organization is supposedly the best & toughest. I haven't yet seen results and "because they're in high demand", not able to handle situations with any type of urgency. Non-responsive when they're busy, which is pretty much always, but especially during their national tours when everyone leaves the office. All communications & movement cease.
Send letters to your state representatives: I received a letter back in 2 days from Senator McNerney. Dropped off my mortgage assistance application at his office which will go to the U.S. Dept. of Treasury where an investigation will ensue. BofA will have 90 days to respond to the Dept. My file will be coded "emergency status". The lady who accepted my file was extremely kind, told me BofA had numerous complaints of the same caliber being processed.
Feds have sent funds to your state. There's one in your state; find it.
A friend of a friend told me about the newest bank block, called "Time Lending" where someone buys 1% of your property and the bank cannot foreclose without high costs in time and money. The strategy is to have your file put back down at the bottom of the stack. You'll need an attorney and an investor.
All I feel I can do is navigate the best way I can; try to keep my frustration controlled & my focus high. I'm as prepared to fight for my property as I am to give up and walk away if it comes down to that.
What I'd like to know...if anybody can tell me, is if there's a class action lawsuit for abusive practices that I can join. Please, attorneys...give me a call. I have no money but like these other folks, I have a 5" file full of documentation that I'd be willing to hand over.
Good luck everyone.
Reviewed Sept. 23, 2011
I've been doing partial payment for two years with Bank of America, My deadline payment is every 15th of the month or late charges will accrue. But this month, I made two payments online which were on Sept 4th and 15th. Last Sept 19th, I received a check from them returning the payment I made on the 4th because they said they don't accept partial payment, so I called them the next day which was Sept 20th and paid over the phone the amount of the check they returned me. I thought everything is okay but after 3days I received a call from them saying I owe them the whole amount of monthly mortgage because they also returned the money that I paid on Sept 14 and the money I paid over the phone on the 20th, through mail.
Enraged, I told them this is not right, that they're asking me to pay the mortgage when in fact I already paid them and they kept on sending back my payment because it's not paid in full, then why did they accept my payment over the phone? And why not return my money online so I can pay them quickly. They were demanding me to pay it when I don't have the check that they mailed, I told them that I have to wait for that check they mailed before I can pay them and I don't have extra money to pay it. I told them this is not my fault, They should have informed me in the first place that they don't accept partial payment because I've been doing this for 2 years but they wouldn't listen and said will charge me late because I am days behind. This is the only company that I have known which returns payment back to customers because the loan is not paid in full. Other company will accept payment regardless of the amount. I don't see any reason why they have to send my payment back through mail which takes long and delays when they are the one who encourages you to use their online services. They must also send my payment back to my checking account and not through mail.
Up until now, I have been waiting for that check they mailed so that I can pay my mortgage for Sept. Isn't this craziness? That only shows they are after the charges that's why they are causing this delays. And what if I didn't get that check on the mail? How am I gonna pay them back when they have my money with them. They don't want to even cancel the check they issued and just send the money back online. This is the best example of a money-making company.
Reviewed Sept. 22, 2011
I am your average American girl. I was born & raised in the Bay Area, I moved to Sparks, Nevada to buy a home. I relocated and found a job after a couple of months. When the economy started to crash, my hours at work were cut back. I also found out that my husband was cheating on me with a co-worker while still married to his old wife in California. Naturally, I had the marriage voided due to bigamy. Times were tough and I couldn't afford my $2100/mo loan payment.
I turned to Bank of America for a loan modification. Lowering my payments would help me keep my house and move on with my life. I applied for the first modification and was accepted. I faxed W2s, paycheck stubs, tax returns, a hardship letter, bank statements, everything the bank asked me to do. I completed my three trial payments with them. I waited and waited for a response about the modification, and every time I called, they told me it was in review or in underwriting. Several weeks later, I was told the modification is accepted and the final papers would be mailed via FedEx for me to sign & return. I waited again, following up with several departments, only to be told the status was in review. BoA representatives told me to wait a week longer for the papers to show up. A week went by and the papers never showed. I called to have them re-sent. The lady told me that the modification was cancelled because I failed to return the signed documents. I asked again for a copy of the papers and I was informed that I would have to start the long process all over again. Sitting at my desk at work, I cried. It was such a frustrating process, being transferred from the Hope Department, The Home Retention Department, Customer Service Department, etc.
Meanwhile, I was paying as much as I could toward the mortgage. The next thing I know, they stopped taking my payments. My house was officially in foreclosure status. I was devastated. I started the entire Loan Mod process again. The story doesn't end, it only gets better. I resubmitted all of my financial info. I mailed them and faxed them. This time, things were different. I was documented every conversation and date with BoA.
I documented every conversation and date with BoA. But still my house was gone! I was devastated and angry. How could a company do this to people? It's happening all over the place. I must also add the very important fact that every representative I talked to assured me while in a modification, my house would not be sold or foreclosed. This was a blatant promise and I felt they misrepresented themselves on several occasions. The only thing I could do was to consult an attorney. They agreed to take on my case on a contingency basis. Meaning, if we don't win, they don't get paid. All the correct papers were filed, and it was another waiting game. We had to wait for them to respond. We had to wait for them to file an opposition. We had to wait to get into court. The day came for us to argue against the dismissal of the case. We had multiple claims against them from misrepresentation to gross negligence. The judge sat on his bench completely devoid of any emotion or insight. He threw the case out because of a 90-day statute. We had 90 days to file this modification in court and had gone over that time. I guess he didn't stop and realize that one of our many claims was for misrepresentation (being lied to) and the statute on that is 2 years. He didn't care. The 2 cases before mine were also thrown out. I tell you people, they are trying to get these things cleared out of the court system as fast as they can with no regard to the fact that this major company is lying and cheating people out of their dreams.
My lawyer and I walked out of that courtroom with our heads down. During his statement, the judge admitted we had an excellent case, however we had gone over 90 days (for that one claim). I have lost all faith in our justice system. I have been let down by a system that says they want to help people. I was betrayed by a powerful company that is above the law. I had agreed to stay quiet about this matter with Bank of America during litigation, however now my silence is broken. I am an average American girl who had hopes and dreams that were destroyed by a corrupt company. I can only pray that people will pull their money out of that bank and transfer loans to ethical lenders. I don't want this to happen to anyone and it's time that Bank of America become accountable for their actions. Thank you for reading my story.
Cheryl **, Sparks NV
Reviewed Sept. 22, 2011
This is absolutely horrible that this bank would not reduce principals without people having to loose their homes or do a short sale. How thoughtless can a corporation be? Some of us don't want to do anything but have justice. Be fair and honorable. Now you know it does not make any good sense, common sense or moral sense to charge consumers triple the interest on house, it's not worth the mortgage value. I guess we all just need to sit outside, live in tunnels and be street people!
Reviewed Sept. 22, 2011
I am having a very bad experience with Bank of America Home Loans office! I make my payments on the exact same day, every single month (the 14th). My check clears my account the very next day, the 15th, and thus, considered on time. This time, I forgot and made my payment on the 15th, which should have gotten to BoA on the 16th and then processed that same day.
Well, I made my payment five (5) days ago and BoA still "hasn't received it yet". I think this is total ** and that BoA is holding my check! I think they have been just waiting for me to screw up so they can charge me for late fees, since I wait until the last possible day to pay. Hey, I'm broke all of the time and it's hard to make ends meet. Especially when my home value has plummeted and the property tax has gone sky high! Not to mention, everything that cost to basically just survive is ridiculously expensive as well! When I called BoA twice to get this resolved, they transferred me to five (5) different departments only to end up in the original department and nothing has been resolved! They surely gave me the runaround and this is completely ridiculous! I wish BoA never bought my loan from Countrywide; I loved working with Countrywide! Also, I'm being forced to give BoA one gold star although they don't deserve one at all!
Reviewed Sept. 22, 2011
I've requested numerous times to have my interest rate lowered. I've made all of my payments on time and currently being charged 25.99% interest rate on my balance even though the prime rate is 3.25%. Bank of America periodically reviews accounts for rate reductions but only if they are open. I'm not experiencing financial hardships, which is the only way they can lower the rate. This action would also negatively affect my credit rating.
My rate cannot be lowered because it is a closed account. I should not be penalized for the limitations of their system or ridiculous policies. On merit alone, my rate should be lowered considering the amount of defaults occurring in today's economic environment.
Bank of America Mortgage Company Information
- Company Name:
- Bank of America
- Company Type:
- Public
- Ticker Symbol:
- BAC
- Year Founded:
- 1992
- Address:
- 100 North Tryon St
- City:
- Charlotte
- State/Province:
- NC
- Postal Code:
- 28255
- Country:
- United States
- Website:
- www.bankofamerica.com
