CitiMortgage
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Category: Business & Finances
Contact Information New Jersey, United States
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CitiMortgage Reviews
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Ann in Colorado
August 10, 2009
insurance check
After storm damage to my house, the insurance company made the settlement check out to me and the mortgage company. It was our understanding that we would endorse the check and send it to citimortgage, along with requested documents, and they would immediately send us a check for half the amount so we could begin repairs. Two weeks later we are still waiting for the check, and now they have informed us it will be made out to us and to the roofer. I explained to them that the roof is only one part of the damages. We need to money to pay for other repairs. The roof won't even be done for several weeks. We have already had electrical work done for over $3, 000. The electrician is still waiting for payment. We sent the invoice to citi, and they said they don't know why we sent it!!! We are also supposed to be reimbursed for tree cleanup for $500. We sent a statement on this and again, they act like they don't have to pay us. Very frustrating. We need a lot of other repairs done and they will not release the money!!! Who do I complain to????
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cosmos10
August 2, 2009
Escrow Mishandling
This has got to be the worst and most incompetent mortgage company out there. I used to think it was Countrywide but perhaps their record has been topped. CitiMortgage, during the poor transition of my account from Countrywide, made duplicate payment of my insurance and tax payments after Countrywide had also paid and as a result, my escrow balance went into the negative. Rather than acknowledge and fix the error, they pointed fingers at Countrywide. They further compounded the problem by telling me they were going to base my 2009 tax payments on what was paid in 2008. How stupid! They said they were doing so b/c they did not have access to 2009 information. I've told them repeatedly that I have the information but they fail to consider it. I have since sent in $1481 for escrow and they have yet to appl;y it to the account, rather it is sitting in an "un-applied funds" pot. They have literally turned routine mortgaging into a nightmare.
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scarlet blowers
July 31, 2009
fraud
about 2 years we recieved a letter from citimortgage stating that i owe back tax's on our house when we faxed the tax info to citimortgage showing that tax's have been payed since 1987, citibank then sent a letter 2 months after stating we didnt have insurance on the account and that citi bank payed our insurance and again we faxed over the insurance coverage showing the house has been insured since 1987, 2 months later we get another letter from citibank stating we dont have flood insurance and again we faxed over a copy of the flood insurance, a couple months later another letter from citibank stating our payments were late when all payments were on time and payed by check 2 weeks before mortgage was due, citibank has stated that they put and escrow account on my loan for no insurance when proof was shown that all tax's, insurance was payed, now citibank wants to send an adjuster to my home to review property for foreclosure when they have all info stating everything payed, i feel that citibank is doing fraud in so many ways by them stating we owe them over 5000.00 dollars when all proof was submitted that we owe nothing.
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JRWood
July 23, 2009
Bi Weekly and Loan Modification Issues
Everything has been fine with CitiMortgage for years. We have had no issues for 6 years, of course, we have not had to deal with them over the phone in that time. The last month has been unbelievable though.
First off, we applied for the Bi-Weekly advantage plan. Three bi-weekly payments had been taken out, with $25 of the $300 initiation fee taken out of each installment, before we had received the first monthly statement from CitiMortgage. Only two of the installments had been entered into our CitiMortgage account, the third was still being held by FNC Insurance. We noticed the bi-weekly installments were nothing more than a third party company taking $200 extra per installment and paying the payment in full once a month with $400 extra towards the principle. We looked at this and thought, "why do we need to pay a company to do this for us?" I called CitiMortgage and they said they had nothing to do with this and I needed to contact FNC Insurance company (should have read the fine print which states it is a third party company). CitiMortgage provided the number. I called FNC Insurance and asked them to cancel my policy... The gentleman said no problem, and faxed me a "notice of cancellation" to sign and return to them. I also requested FNC Insurance company to return my third installment, which they were still holding. The same guy said, "no problem, just sign and return the "notice of cancellation" and we'll gladly return your money. I looked at the form and it clearly states "FNC Insurance Co. reserves the right to keep any fees not yet collected." I told the guy I would not sign this form unless I was guaranteed FNC Insurance Co. would not keep any of my third installment they were holding on to. I also asked for them to return the $75 of startup fees they had already collected because I did not want to keep the Bi-Weekly plan. The guy said to write up a complaint letter, sign it and fax it in and they would look over it. I wrote the complaint letter and faxed it in. I called back and the same guy said they looked over it and would be returning my payment in full, without the $75 of startup fees already accumulated because we were three installments into the plan. I agreed to this. He said all I needed to do is sign the "notice of cancellation" form, send it in and the check would be sent out immediately. I signed the form and wrote a note on the bottom stating "my signature does not authorize FNC Insurance Co. to take out any additional fees as previously agreed upon." I called back the next day and they stated the check had been mailed. I asked the amount and the rep stated it was $300 less than we had agreed upon. I spent the next 2 1/2 hours on the phone pleading my case to no avail before losing my temper and of course any hope of getting my $300 back.
A few days after this, I find out I have a 25% reduction in pay at work. A few days after this I have CitiMortgage calling me to find out where my monthly payment is. The one I am now scrambling to figure out how to pay. I tell the rep that I have all but $300 of the payment and they would have to contact FNC Insurance Co. for the rest of it. Of course this wouldn't happen with CitiMortgage because they have NO IDEA who this 3rd party company is and only refer to them as an "acquaintance." So now I'm out a monthly payment. Great.
I transfer to the Loan Modification Department to see if maybe I can get my payment reduced. The minimum federal requirement is 31% HTI ratio. I provide my newly adjusted income and find out by their calculations I am at 30.34% HTI and I don't qualify. I do my own calculations and find myself closer to the maximum, at 36.5%. I inquire as to why our calculations are different, the guy could not explain it. So I check a little more and find out his calculation works perfectly if you do not include the impound account. I let him know the federal qualifications include the impound account. He puts me on hold to talk to his supervisor, whom I am eventually transferred to. They state CitiMortgage DOES NOT include the impound account in their calculations and ARE NOT required to!!!
Oh, and I also tried to get my past due balance added on to the end of my loan and CitiMortgage DOES NOT IN ANY CASE allow this either.
AM I CRAZY OR IS THIS RIDICULOUS????
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Screwed By CitiMortgage
July 21, 2009
ILLEGAL, Unethical, Unprofessional Practices
After years of medical and legal hardships resulting from brain injury that caused dementia, my children's father finally died on May 4th. Last September I knew that I would not be able to keep paying the mortgage payment which had been at a fixed rate of 7.4% for 2.5 years, "because you need to establish credit." This is what the corrupt mortgage broker had told me just before he was found guilty in a mortgage scam and fled for Australia. Yes, we're had a streak of bad luck. After one payment, Homecomings sold our loan to CitiMortgage. For more than 2 years I paid the high mortgage payment. Then in September 2008, I completed CitiMortgage's Hardship paperwork, requesting either a lowered interest rate or deferrment or forbearance. I was ignored. Between September and December, my written communications were ignored, my phone calls were not taken (or if taken, were passed off into oblivion = disconnected), and no one returned my voice messages. Finally, I got their attention by making a partial payment in December. They cashed the check, but have never applied that money to my loan. Immediately I began receiving harrassing phone calls and mail. I responded to every one with, "do you see that I completed the hardship paperwork in September? here is a copy..." I was never able to speak to the same person twice, and no one could find the paperwork even though I sent copy after copy to various people in various departments at CitiMortgage. In February, I finally got someone with at=uthority on the phone "Mary Zigler." She granted me what they called a forbearance, where I would make about half the prior payment for three months, and then be able to refinance. She said, "when you get the paperwork, you'll see that there is a lump sum payment in June. but don't worry, we'll roll that into the new loan." I complied with the "forbearance" terms, but during the next three months, I received constant harrassing phone calls and mail. When I'd call about the mail, they'd tell me it was an internal mistake and I should ignore it. Then a "free-lance" private invetsigator started trespassing on my property and the neighbor's property. He took photos of the house and my children. The beat up truck he drove had a removable license plate just thrown on the dash board. He did not ever come to the door to explain he was working for CitiMortgage, and he hid behind trees and fences. I called the police to file a report. They determined he was hired by Citi, but when I called Citi, the "supervisor" there denied it. The second time the investigator was sited photographing my house from the front lawn of my neighbor's home, I went over to my neighbor and told him. My neighbor came out and ran the guy off and told him not to come back or he'd file trespassing charges. On May 18th, I decided to be proactive and start requesting the refinance paperwork so that the ball could get rolling before mid June when the "lump sum" was due per the paperwork, but not due per Mary Zigler. I just didn't trust Citi. All of my mail and phone calls have been ignored since May 18th. I have filed complaints with supervisors at Citi and with consumer affairs and other agencies. I've received absolutely no communications from Citi. Two weeks ago I spoke with Citi rep who said that Mary Zigler was the only person who could help me. I was given her extension, and tried to call her 4 times in the past week. She doesn't return my phone calls. Last week I was contacted by an attorney who is suing Citi on behalf of 100's of their screwed-over clients. He asked if I wanted his help. I wasn't sure until today. This evening, while I was doing laundry on the lower level of our home, my children came running to me frightened out of their wits. We had propped the front door open to get some cool air in the house. A man "who looked like Elvis" walked into our home, univited and without my knowledge, spoke with my 11 year old daughter and gave her a crudely written note, written in both English and Spanish, which demanded that I call a phone number written on that note, but had no identifying information as to whom the note had come from. I ran outside just in time to see a man in a red sports car driving away. I believe that he saw me in the driveway, but he still drove away. I called the number on the note and reached CitiMortgage! I immediately asked for a supervisor and then told the supervisor what had happened and exactly how I feel about Citi's unprofessional, unethical and ILLEGAL business practices! I am a single mom with two young children. My kids' dad died just 10 weeks ago. Citi has been aware of our hardships for almost a year, and has not ignored my pleas for assistance (all I wanted was a 4.8% interest rate rather than 7.4%), but has actually been ruthless in obviously trying to take our home away from us. At this point, they won't even allow me to make payments. The Federal Government SHOULD NOT HAVE BAILED THEM OUT! Tax dollars have been wasted on this company which cannot and/or willnot do business ethically nor even professionally. Their representatives have shown consistent incompetence. The right hand of the company doesn't know (nor care) what the left hand is doing. They are devestating people's lives and the stability of our country by undermining homeownership.
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Stephen Brockman
July 21, 2009
credit damage
We sold a rehab house on Aug 5th of 2008. Citimorgage had bought the Mortgage. At the end of August we got a collection call demanding a mortgage payment and in September another. Citimortgage lost a Check from closeing for $122, 000.00 dollars. They signed for it and then asked our Title company for another. The title company sent another check which they refused to accept. They wanted intrest for the missing check time, the check they admitted to loseing. They then put 2 late mortgage payments on our credit. We now have the government regulatory commision involved. Today in the middle of all their stupitity and dispite our undisputable evidence we got a letter saying they just can't help us. The letter is unsigned. Dispite our plees it seems no has even looked at our situation for more then a few seconds. This $122, 000.00 check was not the only one they lost but it is the only one we can prove. Even the title company laughed when they heard this story. I'm not laughing. Stephen Brockman
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Charley L
July 16, 2009
PMI
I have been unable to drop my PMI to date. I am at 77% LTV based on original purchase price of 2 Unit Rental Property. At origination with Reunion Mortgage, we discussed removing PMI after 80%, but there is no documentation noting this. Reunion sold the loan to CitiMortgage. Citimortgage now tells me it has to be 70% LTV of original price! I have asked for Managers over the past 3 months and get the same old answer each time.
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Sad songbird
July 15, 2009
Refinancing loan
It is almost a relief to see that we are not alone in experiencing the unprofessional and inconsistent work at CitiMortgage. We filed for a loan in April, and any feedback of information needed was given us when we called them. NEVER have we received any documentation after the initial Loan Application was sent to us in April with many errors that needed correcting.
We have spoken with many phone operators, who are doing their jobs nicely. They apologize for incompetence that is not theirs, and vow to get to the bottom of the problems that they have no "jurisdiction" over.
I have read about Sanjiv Das, CEO and President of CitiMortgage. He is apparently basking in the glow of his words but not checking to see if they are being put in to practice. Mr. Das, I have never had a more completely negative experience with a loan process than I have with this CitiMortgage "team".
Today I called to request information on filing a complaint about our experience with their company...and there was no one who could help me.
How appropriate.
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Wendy/Gary W
July 15, 2009
Refinace fee scam
Citimortgage is running some type of scam for refinance quotes. My husband and I called to get information about refinancing our home at a lower interest rate. The loan officer started giving us rates and figures over the phone, he told us the only out of pocket expense was $15 for a credit check and an appraisal was not required. I asked him to fax or e-mail me the quote he was giving us, he said NO he could not do that, it had to be done over the phone. I was traveling and lost phone service and had to call back a couple of days later. I was told the only way to proceed was to pay $250 application fee upfront, which I did and a week later I finally received the good faith estimate and related paperwork. With the additional fees Citimortgage was taking on, the new loan would be for more than what was originally financed 4 years earlier. I said I was not told this over the phone and I wanted my $250 app fee back for being mislead. Citimortgage informed me that was non-refundable. I asked what the $250 was for, they said $15 for credit app and $235 for an appraisal that was not done. I believe if you take money for services not rendered, that is a fraud and a scam!
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HappilyMarried07
July 14, 2009
POOR SERVICE
I am behind on my mortgage. I have been actively working on a loan modification since December 2008. Originally I was working with a law firm but decided to take on the task myself in order to save myself the money.
Basically, nothing happened between December and April. My file basically stood still. Then, in early April, Citi offered me a forbearance plan which actually made my payments go up about $500 per month. Obviousy if I wasn't able to afford my current payment, paying an increased payment was out of the question. I went back and forth with Citi and FINALLY was able to get in contact with a rep who applied me for the Making Home Affordable Plan. The plan was not to be implemented by Citi until the following day but after speaking with his supervisor, he was able to push my file through. I thought things were finally progressing. He took my financial information, etc over the phone. This was on April 24th, 2009. He said to call him back the follwing Monday to check on my file. He gave me his extension and said to call him directly. The following Monday I called back. The rep was unable to transfer me. She said she would assist me. She said the file was in process and she had no further information at that time.
On May 7th, I called back and was told that I should receive docs within about 2 weeks.
I called on May 28th and spoke to Walter. He said that the package has not yet gone out. Said to follow up in a week or so to see if the package has been sent.
On June 2nd, spoke to Damon. Package has yet to be sent out.
On June 9th, spoke to Samantha. She said package has not yet been sent out. Said not to worry, I have not yet missed any payments.
Spoke to Shannon on June 12th. Said I should receive the package within a week or two.
Spoke to Rick twice at the end of June (in my haste I did not write down the dates). He was extremely rude. Said that there is no reason for me to continue checking back. Said I just need to be patient. Said he would "escalate" my file.
On July 2nd I spoke to Taylor. She was such a doll. Said that the file shows it is still pending. Said she would once again escalate the file and also sent an email to a supervisor. Said I could call back and follow up with her in a week or so.
I called back on July 7th and spoke to Angel. He could not transfer me over to Taylor. Said that he could see the financials were taken back on April 24th. Said he had no idea why this is taking so long.
On July 10th I called and spoke to Dale. He said that the file was exported to Citi in late April and they have been waiting on approval for the mod from CITI. Said I should call Citi directly to follow up. I let him know that throughout this entire process I had still been receiving calls from Citi asking why I hadn't made my payment and what was going on. Each time they called I let them know I was working with the Making Home Affordable (Home Retention Team) on a modification. I let them know each time they called that I was actively working on a modification. No one seemed to know what was going on. The calls from Citi continued.
This morning (July 14th) I received a call from Michelle at Citi Mortgage. She went over the usual, "You are past due...blah blah blah..." and asked me when they could expect a payment and why they have not received a payment. Once again I let her know I was working with their Home Retention Team on a modification. She said she would check with them to see if there is any new information. After holding for about 5 minutes she came back on the line and let me know there were no new notes. I asked her if there was any way she could contact a supervisor or escalate my file again. She said she wouldn't even know who to contact and that I should just call back in a week or so and see if there is any new information. If not then I should request to speak with a supervisor. I asked her if there was a supervisor availible now that I could talk to. She put me on hold for about 15 minutes and then let me know that the supervisor would not take my call. She apologized and said the supervisors should not decline to take any customer calls. She said she would try to reach another supervisor. I held for another 5 minutes. Then a supervisor named Allison got on the line and then diconnected...
I am at a loss...this entire process has been horrible...I guess I will be calling Citi back AGAIN...WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!
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