Ocwen Mortgage Complaint

Home equity loan or line of credit Loan servicing, payments, escrow account

Ocwen Mortgage department,

Home equity loan or line of credit Loan servicing, payments, escrow account Washington

I have had a line of credit with Ocwen for several years in the amount of $44000.00, which is secured by my home. I carry my own homeowners policy, but because I need flood insurance also, I have let Ocwen supply a force based flood insurance policy which was around $420.00 a year, which covered the line of credit. Other insurance companies had to insure the whole value of the property, which is about $87000.00, so the policies were more money, and the whole amount had to be paid upfront. Ocwen set up an escrow account and raised my payment around $35.00 a month to pay the flood insurance policy. As you can see from the paperwork that I have sent you, as far back as - the escrow payment remained constant because the force placed flood insurance was always around $420.00. Then in - - I was informed that my payment was being raised from around $160.00 a month to $380.00 to cover the shortfall in my escrow account. I went online and saw that on -/-/- Ocwen put a force placed flood insurance on my property for $2200.00, on top of the force placed flood insurance policy that


with then for 45 minutes, and being put on hold 6 times while they were supposedly checking with the insurance company. I have since called back 3 times, and each time it is almost an identical scenario. The only thing that I was told was that in the - - raise in my flood insurance they had revalued my property for $250000.00. They gave me no explanation why that would be necessary, and considering that my property is only worth around $87000.00 and the loan with them is only $44000.00, how can they justify raising my property value to such an exorbitant amount I have never made an insurance claim on my property, either flood or homeowners, since I have lived here, which has been almost - years..Also, how can they put a force placed insurance policy on a property that is already covered by a force placed policy that they put on the property 3 months prior? It is very curious that my yearly policy amount has always remained around the $420.00 mark as far back as -, which is shown in the paperwork that I have sent you. Then for this - window of time, - - to - -, I have to have this expensive flood insurance policy, and then for the renewal of my flood insurance policy for - -, my policy goes back down to $420.00. None of this makes any sense, and I personally feel that this is illegal I have done some research on Ocwen and I have discovered that they have been involved in at least - class action lawsuits pertaining to this same issue, which they have lost, and have been court ordered to pay millions back to homeowners who have been defrauded. On my last call to Ocwen 3 days ago they told me that they would call me back today at - to explain more about what was going on. I told the lady that I did n't want an explanation, I wanted a resolution, which would be to remove the escrow shortfall for that $2200.00 flood policy, and change my payment back to normal. I told her that I would not be paying for that escrow shortfall, and that when I sent my - payment in it would only include my regular payment and the extra for the normal flood insurance policy, like it has always been. She assured me that she would call me at - today to give me more information, but it is now -, and I have not received a phone call from them, nor do I anticipate that there will be -.

Ocwen customer in Washington
Apr 15, 2016

* Source: CFPB Complaint Database

Ocwen response to complaint:
Closed with explanation

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http://www.ocwen.com/
(561) 682-8000
http://www.ocwen.com/contact-us-business-developme
1661 Worthington Rd Ste 100
West Palm Beach FL 33409
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