BBVA Compass Mortgage Complaint

BBVA Compass Mortgage department,

Conventional fixed mortgage Loan servicing, payments, escrow account California

I bought a house -/-/- using BBVA compass for the mortgage. Since that time I have been utterly amazed at how difficult they make it to make additional principle payments. I had my - mortgage through - and it was as easy as you would expect, I was able to adjust my monthly auto-pay to whatever amount I want and make additional principle payments as I desired. BBVA has policies that only allow the auto payments to be the base payment/amount owed, thus limiting the amount of principle paid. When I tried to make a - from my outside account, it showed up as " unapplied payment '' when I called to ask about it I was told it would switch to " principle payment '' after the next cycle, it did n't. Now I have talked with them and the only way to pay additional principle ( that is even mildly convenient ) is to cancel auto-pay and mail them checks. They told me that if I set up a checking account through them it would be easy to make payments. What they did n't tell me in that conversation was that setting up a checking account would come with it 's own headaches. So, just to simplify the issue, I think the practices/policies of BBVA compass for mortgages auto-pay are designed to dissuade costumers from making additional principle payments and I view this as an unethical policy.