BB&T Financial Mortgage Complaint

BB&T Financial Mortgage department,

Conventional fixed mortgage Loan servicing, payments, escrow account Utah

On - of this year, while the sale of our prior home was still pending, my wife and I closed on our current residence, and entered into a mortgage that we understood would be owned or administered by Branch Banking and Trust Company ( BB & T ). It was our intention to use the bulk of the funds from the sale of our old home once received to reduce the principal balance on our new one. Wanting to keep some funds in reserve, and knowing we would soon make a major principal reduction, we only put 10 % down on our new home, and accepted that we might have to pay PMI for a few months. Our closing documents indicated that we could eliminate PMI by reducing our LTV below 80 %. Our old home sold, and on -/-/2016 we made a principal reduction payment on our current mortgage in the sum of $110000.00, which by BB & T 's own calculation brings our LTV to 60.3 %, and on that date in conversation with BB & T 's mortgage service center personnel, requested PMI be removed. That request was rejected, and we were told that a history of


T 's position. We have requested the removal of PMI in writing, have made all mortgage payments from the inception of the loan on time, and have reduced the LTV to 60.3 %. The property has not declined in value in the short time since we closed. We believe that BB & T 's refusal to remove PMI from our mortgage, and refund any PMI payments held in reserve, is contrary to the provisions of the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998, and note that BB & T 's stated policy of requiring 24 months of payments regardless of LTV, is not permitted under the Act, as expressly stated in CFPB Bulletin 2015-03.