vivekkopthsd/cfpb-consumer-complaints huggingface dataset:
Consumer complaint received 2016-02-05 00:00:00
Product: Mortgage — FHA mortgage
Issue: Loan servicing, payments, escrow account — 
Company: Alabama Housing Finance Authority
State: WA

Complaint narrative:
ServiSolutions acquired my mortgage is XXXX 2015. Their XXXX letter to me stated my new mortgage payment was {$1200.00} monthly ( {$570.00} principal, {$330.00} interest, {$320.00} escrow ). At closing my HUD-1 stated my mortgage is {$890.00} ( {$660.00} principal, interest, mortgage insurance, {$220.00} property taxes and homeowners insurance ). They fixed this problem after a few weeks. Now, they have sent me a statement saying my property taxes ( which has not even been issued for this year yet ) are increasing to $ XXXX and my new monthly payment is {$1600.00} per month. Please read my email response to them as follows : 1. Yes, at closing my lender collected 2 months property taxes at {$150.00} per month for a total of {$310.00} ( HUD-1 line XXXX ) 2. Additional Settlement Charges from my closing indicate on line XXXX of the HUD-1 that the XXXX half of the property taxes to XXXX County were collected at a total of {$930.00} ( cross reference line XXXX HUD-1 ) 3. My loan terms on page XXXX of XXXX on my HUD-1 indicate that my mortgage includes a monthly escrow payment of {$220.00} ( homeowners insurance and property taxes ) for a total of {$890.00} per month. 
Homeowners Insurance $ XXXX/yr Property Taxes $ XXXX {$1800.00} XXXX $ XXXX {$220.00} 4. My new tax bill is not issued until this month. Why was I sent updated statement saying my property taxes are now $ XXXX a year? 
5. I am the sole income of a XXXX person household with XXXX XXXX XXXX and XXXX. This is the second incident with an incorrect bill being sent to me. I ca n't XXXX endure this stress. You have only owned my loan for 4 months. This is truly ridiculous. I was responding to this email they sent me as follows : Hello Form the research the finding were as follows : The amount of taxes that were owed at closing was only for 1 month ( XXXX ). Now that the new year has started we have to reanalyze for the full year to be paid for taxes that will be owed every 6 months. ( XXXX x 12 months = XXXX ) ( XXXX / 2 months = XXXX ) Thank you

Company public response: Company believes complaint is the result of an isolated error
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2015-04-19 00:00:00
Product: Payday loan — 
Issue: Received a loan I didn't apply for — 
Company: Blitt and Gaines, P.C.
State: IL

Complaint narrative:
Trying to collect on a debt that I do n't recognize. Reason, I never opened up any accounts in XXXX. Will NOT give me any info, rather just selling this debit to other attorneys with amounts I have never heard of nor recognize.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2015-03-31 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — I do not know
Issue: Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed — Debt is not mine
Company: Capio Partners, LLC
State: TX

Complaint narrative:
This company continues to report on my credit report after I sent them a letter telling them that this account was not mine and I have no idea what it is or who it belongs to! 

I asked for proof of a signed contract, I asked for a license to collect in my state, I asked for copies of all information referenced for this debt and still to date, I have not received anything but harassment from this company! 

THIS IS NOT MY DEBT!

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief
Consumer complaint received 2016-12-19 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — Medical
Issue: Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed — Debt is not mine
Company: Paramount Recovery Systems, L.P.
State: TX

Complaint narrative:
I have no knowledge of said debt and I would like to have it removed as it is reporting to the credit bureau as an open account and negatively affecting me

Company public response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2015-08-01 00:00:00
Product: Mortgage — Other mortgage
Issue: Settlement process and costs — 
Company: First Title & Escrow, Inc
State: VA

Complaint narrative:
I worked for about two months but got terminated for complaining about employment and RESPA violations at First Title & Escrow , Inc. headquartered at XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX, XXXX, XXXX XXXX with phone number ( XXXX ) XXXX. They have offices in other states but I worked in XXXX at XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX XXXX, XXXX, XXXX XXXX. 
This company is doing about XXXX transactions a month and I highly suspect they are not compliant with RESPA regulations for kickbacks or marketing service agreements. I know that their main source of business in XXXX XXXX in XXXX, XXXX comes from a marketer, XXXX XXXX, who is the daughter of the President/Executive of XXXX XXXX XXXX, XXXX which I think maybe in violation of a mortgage kickback scheme since they can not be an affiliate of the mortgage company. 
Please investigate this company. XXXX cases a month from honest marketing efforts -- I highly doubt it. This will be very similar to the XXXX company you investigated. 
XXXX

Company public response: Company disputes the facts presented in the complaint
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2016-09-29 00:00:00
Product: Bank account or service — Other bank product/service
Issue: Account opening, closing, or management — 
Company: TD BANK US HOLDING COMPANY
State: MA

Complaint narrative:
I continue to receive phone calls on my mobile phone generally at ( XXXX almost daily ) from TD Bank regarding SOMEONE ELSE and their " personal business matter ''. The phone call I am receiving calls from is XXXX Extension XXXX. I have either answered or called back and spoken to representatives a minimum of XXXX times explaining that I am not the person they are looking for. On XXXX/XXXX/16 I spoke to an extremely RUDE operator ( operator # XXXX ) and asked to speak with a supervisor. She told me that she did not think that a supervisor was available. My response was " I 'm sure there is ''. After being on hold for 8 minutes, Operator XXXX came back on the line and told me a supervisor was unable to speak with me but that she located the account that was the root of these calls being made to me and removed the phone number from their list. I explained that this is the XXXX time that I have been told this and was very untrusting and displeased with this " resolution ''. Throughout the entire phone call ( as was with the case with the others ) this operator ( # XXXX ) was beyond rude and very unprofessional. Firstly, I am not the person they are looking for and secondly, no one should be spoken to and or treated this way by a business, especially one as large and well known as TD Bank. I ironically know the person they are trying to reach, have discussed these calls with the person they are trying to reach and told him that I would give TD Bank his information. TD Bank refuses to take said information. I appreciate any help I can receive.

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief
Consumer complaint received 2015-07-22 00:00:00
Product: Bank account or service — Checking account
Issue: Account opening, closing, or management — 
Company: TD BANK US HOLDING COMPANY
State: DC

Complaint narrative:
I have not been able to access any of my money currently being held in TD Bank without explanation. This pertains to both my checking and savings account. I have attempted to fix this problem at the branch and by calling their customer service but both have been unhelpful. It has been over a month since I have been able to access my money and since then I have been unable to pay my rent, buy food, or fill my prescriptions.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2015-06-11 00:00:00
Product: Consumer Loan — Vehicle loan
Issue: Managing the loan or lease — 
Company: PRESTIGE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC
State: MO

Complaint narrative:
After several weeks of disputing fees assessed on a vehicle declared as a total loss and paid off by my insurance company I attempted to settle a debt with Prestige Financial. I provided payment authorization over the phone to a Prestige rep in order to settle the account in full. The rep neglected to process my payment resulting in continued fees/interest being assessed on a vehichle that has already been paid off by the insurance company and the GAP insurance company. Prestige also restricted my online access preventing me from posting a payment online which again has resulted in continued charges of interest fees due to the inability of processing a payment. I believe the actions taken by Prestige are willful barriers in order to continue to add on interest fees in an effort to collect increased monies on an account that has been paid off.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2016-11-30 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — Credit card
Issue: Taking/threatening an illegal action — Threatened arrest/jail if do not pay
Company: TD BANK US HOLDING COMPANY
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
XXXX has NOT stopped harassing phone calls to me even calling at XXXX and at night at XXXX threatening and using abusive language and this is on the nordstrom card that had unauthorized charges and nordstrom has closed off and cleared all fees. please help to stop sentry this must be illegal and every unethical thing to do

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2016-01-21 00:00:00
Product: Student loan — Non-federal student loan
Issue: Dealing with my lender or servicer — Trouble with how payments are handled
Company: GREAT LAKES
State: NH

Complaint narrative:
Pulled directly from Great Lakes Borrower Services Website : How Payments Are Applied " However, when it comes to extra payment amounts ( see examples below ), after all interest and late fees due have been satisfied, we automatically apply the extra amount to the unpaid balance on the loan with the highest interest rate ( if there are multiple loans in your account ). If you do n't want the extra payment amount to be applied this way, contact us. If you, instead, want an extra payment amount to be applied to a specific loan, you must provide us with the loan 's account number and interest rate. '' I was a XXXX major and currently work for XXXX XXXX. I state this so that my concern may be taken a bit more seriously as I 'm sure you receive unmerited complaints all the time. Their are multiple issues at play here, but I will start with what I assume to be the most common. I am currently in repayment on XXXX loans with this lender ( technically it 's XXXX XXXX XXXX ), XXXX has a 8 % interest rate and the other 8.375 %. I have all of my amortized interest paid and so only pay monthly accrued interest. I overpay each month in order to further deplete the principal balance. As the quote states above all extra payments will be applied to the higher rated loan. THIS IS NOT TRUE. I have been informed by multiple service representatives that I need to continuously call in to request that my over payments be allocated the way that I prefer and that if I do not than they will be applied proportionally to each loan. XXXX off that is not how it should be because the borrower is at a loss in this case. XXXX that is not how they advertise on their site which is fraudulent as well. I have been happy that they are willing to prorate my payments and make the adjustments that I prefer, but I ca n't imagine many graduates thinking this way nor looking into it. Please Help!

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-02-16 00:00:00
Product: Credit card — 
Issue: Rewards — 
Company: TD BANK US HOLDING COMPANY
State: CT

Complaint narrative:
I upgraded my TD bank credit card to TD cash as part of a promotion. According to the promotion if I spend {$500.00} in 90 days, I would receive {$150.00} back. I spent the {$500.00} within the 90 days but then it turned out one transaction did n't go through properly resulting in {$470.00} spend for the allocated 90 days period. I tried contacting TD customer service 3 times and every time I was promised a supervisor will get back to me but no one did.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2016-09-13 00:00:00
Product: Other financial service — Check cashing
Issue: Excessive fees — 
Company: TD BANK US HOLDING COMPANY
State: NH

Complaint narrative:
Received a check from a customer of mine. Their check was from TDBank for {$86.00}. So I went to TDBank to cash it, thinking that is where it was drawn ... TDBank was going to charge me a {$7.00} fee to simply cash the check! When I gasped, they told me this is an industry-standard fee! Not at my bank! 

For people unfortunate enough to not have a bank account, this is highway robbery!! There should be somewhere people do not have to pay a " poor tax '' just to get access to their own money! 

I personally bank with XXXX, the oldest credit union in the US and they have NO FEES -- other than overdraft fees, but theirs are among the lowest in the industry and they offer an even lower fee option when you link your savings to your checking. They offer all kinds of online banking, a smartphone app for mobile banking, great customer service, local and national discounts on insurance, travel, and other perks, convenient locations to me and travel support, so I know where to bank less expensively when traveling outside the US. 

So far I love everything about XXXX and would never bank with a such a short-sighted, fee-first company as TDBank!

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2015-10-09 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — Other (i.e. phone, health club, etc.)
Issue: False statements or representation — Attempted to collect wrong amount
Company: TD BANK US HOLDING COMPANY
State: CA

Complaint narrative:
Collection agency reporting {$2900.00} as Open Account, & under collection accts ( XXXX ) times on credit report along with Original debtor Target/XXXX also reporting, {$1900.00} as charge off. This is reported XXXX on credit report.

Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief
Consumer complaint received 2016-04-13 00:00:00
Product: Student loan — Federal student loan servicing
Issue: Dealing with my lender or servicer — Trouble with how payments are handled
Company: GREAT LAKES
State: KS

Complaint narrative:
My servicer, Great Lakes, will not allow me to make extra payments that pay down my principle ... instead they say that I am " paid ahead, '' meaning I have made future monthly payments of interest and principle. Is this right?

Company public response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2015-04-28 00:00:00
Product: Credit card — 
Issue: Privacy — 
Company: TD BANK US HOLDING COMPANY
State: FL

Complaint narrative:
I have never missed a credit card payment an have an excellent FICO score, so imagine my surprise when I received an email notifying me that my XXXX payment had not been received by Target. I paid that bill on time, mailed it with a return address label along with several other pieces of mail, many days before the bill due date. The other mailed items all got to their destinations and I am sure Target got mine. I have no idea how it was lost. I called the XXXX number and was told by your rep that the only way to avoid the {$26.00} in service charges was to pay by check immediately. I gave him my information and told him I did not want it saved in the system. He told me that was not possible. That is outrageous given that Target has already been hacked. I want that information removed immediately. I contacted Target through their online contact us and got a response explaining that my information was secure and they again refused to remove it. This is not satisfactory. I believe that Target should not be allowed to save that information against my wishes.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2017-02-15 00:00:00
Product: Student loan — Federal student loan servicing
Issue: Dealing with my lender or servicer — Don't agree with fees charged
Company: GREAT LAKES
State: KY

Complaint narrative:
Firstly I had not been receiving any mail on making payments to my federal loans to my loan servicer Great Lakes, despite it reflecting I have selected the postal option. Then one day I receive a letter from them, ' you are {$1.00}, xxx behind on your payments, you must pay this off and continue your payment plan. You should also go into forbearance if you can not pay this. Turns out they were sending all these emails to an old email I had used for school and had not been aware of to whom and how much my monthly payments would be for my federal student loans. I replied to the email and went into forbearance this past month. Since that month that I had logged into my account and requested forbearance, I recall the unpaid principal being about {$30000.00}. I log in today to find the principal to be {$34000.00}. I understand that loans still gather interest in forbearance but this seems a little ridiculous. I did some research on other people that had Great Lakes as their servicer and found that many people experience unknown fluctuations in their principal. This makes me very unsettled when this is who I 'll need to deal with for many years in repaying my loans. I 'd like to get back on track and will be filing my taxes soon to apply for an income based repayment plan, because Great lakes is expecting me to pay about 20 % of my income. I was hoping to seek some guidance in dealing with my servicer, as well as bringing to light the issues myself and many other students are experiencing.

Company public response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Company response to consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief
Consumer complaint received 2016-09-25 00:00:00
Product: Debt collection — Federal student loan
Issue: Disclosure verification of debt — Right to dispute notice not received
Company: GREAT LAKES
State: TX

Complaint narrative:
I did not receive notice from Ohio that I was in default in my student loans ( actually had worked out a payment plan a few months prior ) and in danger of my pay being garnished. Instead, I received a notice from work that they were going to garnish my pay, so I contacted Ohio XXXX loans office to try to work something out so this would not happen, and they were rude to me and told me I could n't stop it, and would not work with me at all, and have begun garnishing my pay, even though I am a head of household with low income and now am being forced to file bankruptcy to stop it. I did receive notice from Missouri and have been able to work with them, but Ohio did not send me notice, and were very rude and will not work with me and instead disregarded letters I sent and calls and have started to garnish my pay. Is there a problem with Ohio student loans? I need to be able to work this out rather than file bankruptcy.

Company public response: Company believes it acted appropriately as authorized by contract or law
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2016-08-26 00:00:00
Product: Bank account or service — Other bank product/service
Issue: Account opening, closing, or management — 
Company: TD BANK US HOLDING COMPANY
State: ME

Complaint narrative:
XX/XX/2016, my bank started a real time account record. Meaning that purchases and transfers etc would be done in the order they are made. No problem. Overdraft charges were not mentioned in this change. I had accidentally overdrawn a couple times after the new policy and within the hour of the overage happening I covered it and did n't get a fee. Between XX/XX/XXXX and the XX/XX/XXXX my brother was dating an employee of the bank. They broke up and they have a legal issue pending between them. Her friends at the bank make us both feel uncomfortable with dirty looks, but nothing more. I brought in some of the employees belongings to her at my brother 's request, I took them to her work because I do n't know where she lives. Just days after I overdrew by {$1.00} and some change, within 10 minutes I covered it. They charged me the overdraft fee, I paid even though I thought it was unfair. They then charged me a fee for transferring from my savings too many times using the app. Stating that had I physically was in the bank I would n't have gotten the charge. I had bills coming out of the account and had enough to cover them with a few dollars left, but that charge put me over yet again. I paid to cover it and received yet another overdraft fee. I called and they denied any unfair charges where none existed before. I told them the fee is to pay them for covering and compensating what I overdraw and ca n't cover, but that is for a 24hr period or more, not 10 minutes. They claim that all banks do this and I should do my research, I said you are the only one that does n't allow until the end of the day. As for the online transfer they claim it 's state policy to charge the account holder for transferring the account holders money between accounts, I find it fishy. I had no problems until I brought in the persons belongings. It was no time until my account was being attacked when I had never had any issues before.

Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation
Consumer complaint received 2016-06-21 00:00:00
Product: Bank account or service — Checking account
Issue: Problems caused by my funds being low — 
Company: TD BANK US HOLDING COMPANY
State: NY

Complaint narrative:
Recently TD Bank change the way they process transactions. I am a customers that lives check by check. My work checks are direct deposit on fridays each week. I pay my car every other week and now I have incurred in more than XXXX overdraft fees of XXXX. They said this change was because customers wanted it like that. What customers rich customers? I ca n't not afford this and certainly I ca n't not afford loosing {$35.00} dollars just like that. The only reason why have n't close my account is because I have to many payments linked to my account. I feel this NEW thinks is not only afftecting me is affecting people like me and we are getting excesive overdrafts fees. We are being robbed XXXX for the little money we make.

Company response to consumer: Closed with monetary relief