First American Financial Corporation Complaint: Loan servicing, payments, escrow account

#1679926 2 Dec 2015

Mortgage Conventional fixed mortgage

Complaint #1679926 submitted on 12/02/2015 relating to First American Financial Corporation. Complaint relates to Mortgage Conventional fixed mortgage - Loan servicing, payments, escrow account .

Complaint was submitted via Web and sent to the company on Monday 7th December 2015.

Narrative (may be redacted).

On XXXX I met with First American Title Company to process the closing of my mortgage refinance. Part of the deal, as stipulated by the bank, was for them to withhold some of the money owed to me and use it to pay XXXX credit card bills : XXXX and XXXX XXXX, around $ XXXX in total.
As of today, XXXX, none of these bills was paid. Their representative, XXXX XXXX, did not return my calls for the past week, and yesterday, abruptly notified me by email that they put a stop payment on the check that they supposedly sent to XXXX and XXXX XXXX, and they will send replacement check to me personally, so I can forward these to the CC companies. He did not ask or receive my authorization to cancel these checks, instead refusing to take my calls and avoiding any communication with me. I questions whether these checks were timely sent at all.
In the interim my CC bills risked becoming past due, and accumulate fines and interest ( I always pay these on time to avoid interest payment ) so I paid them myself. Not sure what to do with the checks that First American is about to send to me. They suggest that I send these to the CC companies, have them cash the checks, and then ask for a refund, once my account has a positive balance. This is time consuming and expensive. At the end it will take me over a month the recover the money due to negligence on the part of the title company.

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