Consumer complaint received 2018-08-23
Company: Flagstar Bank, N.A.
State: AZ
Product: Mortgage
Sub-product: FHA mortgage
Issue: Closing on a mortgage

Complaint:
XXXX XXXX was my mortgage loan officer for a new construction purchase. From the beginning he assured me he has everything taken care of and was honest. The builder had there own in-house lender and if we used them they paid closing costs. Since I had been working with XXXX first I felt bad switching after being preapproved through him and he assured me the closing costs would never be more than 6k. Long story short after many lies and deception closing costs were well over 6k and he had snuck in XXXX $ in buying down a point NEVER discussing this with me, told Me because I had the funds in my account they could not be gifted even though this was in original paperwork from purchase contract and had been fine all along and when I told them No ; the commission is being gifted from my mother ( realtor of the transaction ) he told me ( after missing the close date and lying ) that I could No longer have it gifted and would Need to wire more money pay another wire fee and pay it out of pocket.

When I said no, him And his manager said we saw you have proof of funds in your account are you telling us you no longer have access to these funds I said yes I do I dont want to pay closing thats money in my Savings and its being gifted they told Me They would Have to reopen The entire loan and go back to underwriting and could Delay it weeks if it was approved at all If I didnt wire the additional funds. They lied about rushing the appraisal. They lied about assuring me they would cover the cost of the rushed appraisal. They snuck it into the fees after promising me they would Cover it because it was there error. They lied and told me it could Only be title As sole and separate and if we were to change it to the way it was originally suppose to take title it would again be sent back to underwriting and take another week out of closing and also possibly no longer be approved/ they tried to bully us into agreeing to the terms in order to close and not forfeit our XXXX deposit with the builder. They also are charging us a XXXX $ tax rate monthly because they are charging us a California tax rate on our home in XXXX az because the land isnt assessed yet.

Why would I pay Cali taxes on a home In AZ?

I got every manager at flagstar involved, they did not care and knew that because they had already lied and held up Closing by a week I wasnt able to switch lenders at that point without losing my XXXX  deposit with the builder and being in breach of contract. They were so emotionally abusive during the entire process and I have emails ; texts and phone call logs to prove everything. XXXX needs to lose his ability to even be a mortgage Loan officer! He is a fraud! I can not believe flagstar Allows there company to run this way. I will continue to warn everyone and report them Closed on XX/XX/XXXX.

Started working with them XX/XX/XXXX.

Company public response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
Company response to consumer: Closed with monetary relief