Consumer complaint received 2016-06-30
Company: Rocket Mortgage, LLC
State: WI
Product: Mortgage
Sub-product: FHA mortgage
Issue: Loan servicing, payments, escrow account

Complaint:
I received a call from Quicken Loan saying our escrow account was deficient {$1100.00} plus and we needed to pay it. The reason they gave did not make sense - that our escrow account was short that amount because our home owners insurance went up {$100.00} annually. We told them that did n't make sense and that our real estate taxes went down approx {$200.00} which would more then make up for it. Besides they had already paid the taxes in full in XXXX 2015 which we reminded them of. I explained to them that there were 2 options on how to pay - a total payment due in XXXX which they did or 2 installment payments one in XXXX and one in XXXX and it looked like they thought the XXXX installment needed to be added to the full amount they already paid. They could n't wrap their heads around this, insisted we had to be wrong but said they would check and get back to us. 

One week or so later they called with good news that they figured out what happened and of course it was what we had told them in the first place but now we only needed to pay approx {$300.00} plus for the escrow shortage which still did n't make sense but I 'm exhausted because we are going through an incredibly hard time in our lives and I agreed to what was offered to me which was to divide the amount up over 12 months. I 'm thinking I would address this later after things settled down for us. After that I received a call from a debt collector and I reported this to Quicken and they were very sorry and that should not have happened but they would take care of it. Next a statement or a phone call saying there was a {$23.00} late fee. I called Quicken and again sorry and they would reverse that fee. Another call from the debt collector - reported this to Quicken as well. 

Then they told me I was not making my payments on time. When we first started paying on this loan the due date of the XXXX came before my husbands soc sec check so we figured out together, Quicken and myself when it could be paid and still be in the grace period. This was their recommendation. And so it went until this bizarre call about our escrow account being short way back at the beginning of our complaint. On Apr XXXX my husbands XXXX died. On XXXX XXXX his XXXX died. On XXXX XXXX my XXXX died and on XXXX XXXX while we were at the funeral we got word my XXXX died. On Tues XXXX XXXX after returning from my XXXX funeral I opened a statement from Quicken showing an escrow shortage of {$530.00}. I called them and am waiting for a call back. 

Somewhere in these phone calls I asked if we could handle our own escrow. Because it is a FHA Gov. loan we have no choice but to escrow through Quicken. The only way for us to do our own escrow is to refinance into a conventional loan. 

You ca n't make this stuff up!!!! I feel they need to first fix this, then apologize and then compensate us for this entire matter that should not have happened in the first place. Included in this complaint is also a claim of harassment which needs to be addressed as well.

Company response to consumer: Closed with monetary relief