Consumer complaint received 2016-12-15
Company: Ocwen Financial Corporation
State: WA
Product: Mortgage
Sub-product: Home equity loan or line of credit
Issue: Loan servicing, payments, escrow account

Complaint:
Several years ago, OCWEN Financial assumed XXXX mortgage loans I 'd had for several years with XXXX. In spite repeated calls over the past several years to change my mailing address after having moved almost XXXX years ago, Ocwen has failed to make the change. A year ago, I left my job of over XXXX years and also had to change my email address. Again, Ocwen failed to make this change. In XX/XX/2016, after the death of our XXXX son, I failed to make my normally scheduled payment. When I logged in to make the payment in XX/XX/XXXX, I realized my mistake and used Ocwen 's internal system to make 'emergency ' payments on both of my accounts that would post that day for the amount listed as due. In XX/XX/XXXX, when I again logged into Ocwen 's site ( remember, I get NO correspondence from Ocwen because they have never updated my contact information ), I found out that XXXX of the XXXX 'emergency ' payments had not been posted. I also discovered that the minimum payment on the other account had been quadrupled from roughly {$800.00} ( including taxes and insurance ) to over {$3200.00}. I immediately paid the total amount due on both accounts and called Ocwen 's Customer Service support and asked them to address XXXX items : 1. Only XXXX of my payments had been credited from the month before. I did NOT ask Ocwen to waive the late fee they had charged, but simply asked that no late payment would show on my credit report. I had used their system to pay the total amount owed but only XXXX account was credited with the full payment due from both accounts. The customer service representative told me that he would 'open a case ' regarding the matter, but I have never heard back from the company. 
2. I asked that Ocwen update my contact information. I was told by the representative that, in order to do that, I must submit the changes in writing with my signature separately for each account. I have several mortgage accounts, both personal ( primary residence and income property ) and commercial..I have never had a mortgage holder require a written statement to change an address. Every other lender with whom I do and have done business ( XXXX, XXXX and XXXX Credit Unions, all allow changes to be made online after identity verification. I believe it is incumbent on Ocwen to make sure that customer 's can receive statements, communication and notices. I have since sent in the change of address notices ( by the way, I was told that separate written notices must be sent for physical mailing address change and email address change ), but there is no indication on the website that the changes have been made. 
3. I asked that the minimum payment on my mortgage loan be re-instated to the original agreement. The death of our son was an extraordinary circumstance and our loan has been in good standing for many years. I believe that accelerating the amortization schedule on the loan for XXXX late payment is opportunistic and predatory behavior on the part of Ocwen.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation