Stearns Ventures, LLC Mortgage Complaint

Conventional adjustable mortgage (ARM) Loan servicing, payments, escrow account

Stearns Ventures, LLC Mortgage department,

Conventional adjustable mortgage (ARM) Loan servicing, payments, escrow account Oregon

I have previously submitted a complaint about Stearns taking principal payments, and applying them to monthly payments ( interest, escrow ). When I have asked to have them reversed ( i.e. have the money put directly to principal as I had originally instructed ), I then got a letter saying I was delinquent in payments ( as my autodraft payment was pushed back when they got my check for extra principal ). I got a response from Stearns via CFPB saying that everything was fine, I was not delinquent and I had not been reported to a credit agency. I sent another check to go to principal in -, and the same thing happened- it was partially applied to a monthly payment. I called to ask them to apply it all to principal. I had to speak to a supervisor to assure that my autodraft was not messed up and that I would not again be accused of being delinquent. When I said this has happened multiple times and how do I assure payments go only to principal, I was told their payment address is a " lock box '' and it is automated, and it does n't matter what you write on it, that it is going to take it as a payment. I was given an alternate address to send principal only payments to. My question is why is this not stated in their payment instructions? Why was I not told this during my numerous conversations with Stearns before?

Stearns Ventures, LLC customer in Oregon
Oct 28, 2016

* Source: CFPB Complaint Database

Stearns Ventures, LLC response to complaint:
Closed with explanation

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