Aspire Financial, Inc. Mortgage Complaint

Aspire Financial, Inc. Mortgage department,

Conventional fixed mortgage Application, originator, mortgage broker Texas

-/-/2015This statement concerns my dealings with -. They are located at - - -. in -, Texas. My first contact with them was prior to - -, 2015. I base this on an email that I received from one of their Mortgage Counselors asking me for copies of my current mortgage statements. The email was sent to me by a - - - on - -. When I first met with - - I was left with the feeling that he really had no idea what he was doing which made me rather uncomfortable. I stressed to him the importance of having this refinance done and completed before - -, 2015. He assured me that it would be done without any problem. As you will see, if they had gone with a VA loan that I inquired about at a later point. Meeting this deadline would not have been a problem. Over the next several weeks, I became acutely aware of the fact that - - did not have the experience or knowledge to be able to handle my application. At one point he ended up asking for help from a Senior Consultant, a - - -. Unfortunately, all this


could never get either one of them to give me a straight answer about anything. I told - - numerous times that the Refi. needed to be done before - -, and why it was so important. I have text messages from - - as far back as - - assuring me that he was well aware of the urgency, and that it should not be a problem. On - -, I got an email from - - where I could electronically sign some documents and send them back to him, which I immediately did. On - -, I sent him a text that I had just received the GFE ( Good Faith Estimate ). -/-/- I hand delivered a document that their processing dept. had requested. This ( The GFE ) turned out to be the very last thing that I would receive from him in the way of documentation that a loan was being processed. While I was in the office, - - came out to meet me. We started talking about the appraisal, and he said something that caught me off guard. He said, -, I am not supposed to tell the appraiser how much we need for the appraisal to be so that you will have a 20 % equity in the house. But that does not mean that you can not tell him because technically he works for you since you are the one paying for it. '' It may not be illegal for him to tell me this but it sure seems like it is unethical. I ended up paying $500.00 for an appraisal that I was never able to make use of. As you will see, I never even got a copy of it. Over the next month and a half, all I got from him was excuse after excuse after excuse as to why no progress was being made. At one point, the loan amounts had to be changed, ( Because of the appraisal ) so within three days I started asking for the new GFE. I must have asked at least a dozen times. I NEVER got one. I have a text dated - - asking when I could expect a new and updated GFE. The loan amounts may have changed but his excuses did not. At - point, I was told by someone in the processing department that customers like my wife and I were the kind of customers that everyone looks for. Both of our credit scores were above -. We had absolutely no credit card debt whatsoever. Our debt to income ratio was less than 30 %. We both had long employment histories with the same companies. My wife alone had a yearly income above $ - per year. Get the picture? So I was having a difficult time trying to understand why things were not moving any faster. The only thing I ever heard - - say to me was I 'm just trying to get you the best deal I can. ''