Whew!
My eyeballs just rolled up and refuse to keep reading.
I'm at page 20.
This is just fascinating to me.
As I suspected there is an indemnification clause. That's okay. If we find wrong doing, wouldn't we rather see the servicer take the hit?
One thing I see in the contract that really puts some liability on the servicer
is the forced placed insurance.
The contract states:
"The Servicer shall not interfere with the Mortgagor's freedom of choice in selecting either his insurance carrier or agent; provided, however, that the
servicer shall not accept any such insurance policies from insurance companies unless such companies currently reflect a general policy rating of
B-V1 or better in Best's Key Rating Guide and are licensed to do business in the state wherein the property subject to the policy is located.
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I'm not so sure they can just cancel your policy if it doesn't meet their requirements without informing you the policy does not meet their standards
and give you the opportunity to secure a different policy after explaining what is wrong with yours.
That is never done as far as I have ever read anyone's account on the forced placed insurance issues and complaints.
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What is a blanket policy for hazard insurance on this particular trust
to be maintained by the servicer?.
I found this explanation but is it correct? Don't know.
"Any program that offers optional supplemental amounts of insurance on top of a basic benefit package where only the basic package automatically covers all eligible persons."
The contract between them orders this done. You, the borrower, are
not party to this contract, so I don't see how they can legally charge
you a premium for this IF that is what they are doing.
Again, this is a situation that if you are being charged for the policy, you are entitled to a copy of the policy in my way of doing business. No copy. I don't pay. I don't trust a mortgage servicing company to pass me a kleenex, nevermind deliver a bill to me for payment without proper documentation.
You are entitled to know what you are being charged for.
Besides, if you don't have a provision in your mortgage contract for a
"blanket policy" they don't get to have one at your expense.
This is definitely a part of their contract that harms you.
It is probably a breach of your contract.
If you were a normal person running a mortgage servicing company
and you find a borrower with a hazard insurance policy that doesn't meet the standards of the "trustee". You would inform the borrower what is wrong
and give them 30 days or so to fix it. It takes about 30 seconds for them
to check out your insurer and another 30 seconds to send you a form letter
with the facts. All of them.
You cannot be reasonably expected to know what exists in a contract
between the trustees and your servicer. That is unreasonable.
Of course, if they'd like to send us all our individual copy of this contract,
we could read it and act appropriately.
Anyway, this is a big issue for borrowers. It doesn't seem the FTC
went far enough in their investigation of Fairbanks to bring this
craziness to our attention.
Again, if this were my loan.... I'd be writing letters demanding an investigation by the trustee asserting that Litton interferred with my choice of insurer, disregarding the contract between the trustee and servicer.
It is harmed me countless ways financially and put stress on me and my family that is a deliberately concoted a predatory mortgage servicing technique to intimidate me into paying money that I do not owe.
Their techniques might best be described as a mortgage servicing terrorist organization.
If you do not pay them this $3600.00 your home will be foreclosed upon
leaving the borrower with no venue in the judicial system to stop them
from doing so.
There was never any notice to me that my insurer did not meet the trustee standards. My policy was cancelled and the one selected by the servicer
carries **what was it? $3600.00 dollar a year premium vs. my $700.00 a year policy.
By allowing this behavior by the servicer you are complicit in a myriad of
unreasonable late fees and other foreclosure expenses.
Because Litton would not deal with me honestly, I had to sell my home
or face what I would deem an illegal foreclosure.
I can see that Litton is ordered by you to maintain an Errors and Omissions
policy.
(All you have left to do is find out how your carrier was rated by Bests)
You could give them the specific insurance information. A copy
of your policy would be nice.
I would appreciate a response from you at your earliest convenience.
Just lay it out for them. See what sticks. It looks pretty clear to me.
I have some other things ear marked to take another look at but I have to do it later.
This is a primary issue probably affecting thousands of borrowers with Litton
and if this contract is a "canned contract" that most mortgage servicers
and trustees use, well that might be hundreds of thousands of borrowers.
Maybe we ought to get examples of servicing agreements from the other
servicers to see what is normal or what stands out as unusual language.
Sorry, I couldn't finish it.
Looks like I'll need a couple more days to look at it. I read every word.
Dee