Shellpoint Partners Complaint

Shellpoint Partners, LLC Mortgage department,

VA mortgage Loan servicing, payments, escrow account Georgia

I had a home loan with the lender New Penn who uses Shellpoint Mortgage to service their loans. The rates dropped so I also did a VA streamline IRRRL with them. Since I am rated a - Veteran, in the state of GA I do n't pay property taxes. During the processing of my loan the underwriter added taxes to my escrow payments. I 'm not sure where the amounts came from as my County Tax Assessor Office had already provided me my estimated tax amount which stated $0.00. So I provided that infomation to my lender and the taxes were deleted and the loan was closed. However, when the loan servicer, Shellpoint, received my loan and established my account, it showed that I owed taxes for the year totalling almost $2400.00. Since the loan had recently closed two weeks prior, I contacted the lender for assistance. The lender basically verified they had not provided the tax figures to Shellpoint since the amounts were not calculated into my escrow account, but only showed as a collectable debt against my mortgage account. Therefore, I contacted Shellpoint inquiring about the tax amounts and provided them with the same tax estimate I received

went on to remind me that since my lender did not include the amounts owed in my escrow account, it is also my responsibility to ensure the debt is paid per the terms of my loan agreement ( or they would place my account in collections ). At this point in time I am clearly at a loss! So I contacted both my County and City tax offices to reconfirmed my VA - tax exemption status and received copies of my tax statements both showing $0.00 with $0.00 due. I forwarded both statements to the lender, New Penn, and the servicer, Shellpoint, with no response. However, since then, my account now shows a reduced amount due for my County taxes but the same amount due for my City taxes totalling about $720.00 due versus the previous $2400.00.