Date Received: 2015-09-30
Issue: Loan servicing, payments, escrow account
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: I refinanced my home with 5th/3rd Bank. The mortgage was to include escrow and taxes. After the loan closed I attempted to cancel my automatic withdrawal for my homeowner 's insurance. I was advised a balance of {$970.00} remained and would continue to be deducted monthly through XXXX. The bank 's explanation is that they did not receive the full attachment sent by my insurance agent indicating a balance remained. The agent has proven to me that he sent the full attachment and that 5th/3rd Bank did not contact them when they received only XXXX page, therefore my XXXX statement was inaccurate as it did not address the remaining balance owed for my homeowner 's coverage. I believed, in good faith, that they had collected the correct information and that the disclosed escrow amount took into consideration my current balance. 5th/3rd is at fault for not determining the balance due on my homeowner 's insurance. When I asked them to rectify this after the loan closed they would not recalculate the escrow to make it correct. Thus, for the next 6 months I will be paying an additional {$160.00} per month for insurance. This was not the deal I made with 5th/3rd and poses a financial hardship for me. Through no fault of mine, I will be financially strapped to make this additional payment through XXXX.
Company Response:
State: KY
Zip: 402XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2015-09-30
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: No
Date Received: 2015-09-26
Issue: Shopping for a loan or lease
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: WENT TO GET A NEW CAR AND XXXX SENT MY SSN NUMBER TO SERVAL BANKS WITHOUT MY CONSENT AND THEY MADE HARD INQUIRES ON Y CREDIT REPORT
Company Response:
State: NC
Zip: 27107
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2015-09-26
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: No
Date Received: 2015-09-26
Issue: Loan servicing, payments, escrow account
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: I have had a XXXX mortgage with Fifth Third Bank since XX/XX/XXXX. The loan amount was {$36000.00}. My monthly payment is {$260.00}. I have consistently paid more than the required amount. I am not delinquent and never have been. To this date, XX/XX/XXXX I have paid over {$27000.00} in interest and have requested repeatedly that the excess amount be applied to the principal. I was advised that interest is charged on a daily basis and that has to be paid first. My loan balance is still at {$34000.00}. My loan payment is due on the XXXX of each month and is considered late if not received by the XXXX. From what I was told from the bank was that even though my payments are received on or around the XXXX, that I am being charged interest for those days prior to the due date (? ). This is a terrible loan product and I have requested that my loan be modified to be fully amortized and was told that they do not do business in Arizona ... but yet, my home is in Arizona. I feel that this bank has taken advantage of me and still continues to do so. Their products are inferior and certainly not for the benefit of helping homeowners. Their lending practices are very unfair and unreasonable. I have asked for help but to no avail. Please look into this bank 's policies and procedures as it does not look good for just everyday working people that deal with this awful bank. Also, I am not delinquent and my interest payments are always on time ( their time ). This is not an interest only loan, although it sure looks and feels like it ... .just awful.
Company Response:
State: AZ
Zip: 85213
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2015-09-26
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: No
Date Received: 2015-09-24
Issue: Loan servicing, payments, escrow account
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: Fifth Third Bank holds our mortgage. We refinanced several years ago and have paid our mortgage monthly, in a timely fashion. It is important to note that although we are given a grace period until the XXXX of every month to become current on our mortgage, this company would immediately start with robo calls on the XXXX or XXXX of every month. It was n't worth it to me, so I started paying my mortgage roughly on the first of every month. On XXXX XXXX, 2015 there was a change with my escrow account. I was not notified of this change in any form, so I made my regular payment in good faith. XXXX came and went without a single courtesy call, or letter to inform me that the amount I had submitted was n't enough to satisfy the account. I made my XXXX XXXX payment, still unaware of the escrow shortage. On XXXX XXXX I received a letter stating that I had not paid enough to make the account current. I immediately called the number provided and was told of the escrow discrepancy. I paid the amount due XXXX {$100.00} XXXX and was assured that the account was not in danger. I then received a letter dated XXXX XXXX, 2015 stating that my " mortgage payment is now past due and the loan is in default ''. Fifth Third Bank had already gone ahead and reported this late payment to the credit bureau on XXXX XXXX as a 30 day late!!! My credit score has now dropped from XXXX to XXXX!!!!!!! To make matters worse, I received yet another phone call from another branch of Fifth Third Bank stating that I had also missed my XXXX XXXX payment. Not only had I paid my XXXX XXXX payment, but I had also submitted XXXX payments of {$100.00} in order to satisfy the XXXX XXXX shortage AND the XXXX XXXX shortage. When they looked into the matter, FTB apparently did not apply my payment to my mortgage, but counted it as an additional payment to the principal because the payment was paid on XXXX XXXX, 2015. I have tried several times to reach the 3 people at Fifth Third who have vowed to help me, but no one answers their phone. I am still receiving daily notices that my mortgage is in default even though I have not missed a single payment, and I have satisfied the 2 additional escrow shortages. To add insult to injury, I was notified by XXXX XXXX that the terms of my Business Platinum account had changed. This is my business account that I run XXXX dollars through every year! My business grosses over 2 Million Dollars of business a year and we heavily rely on our credit to finance equipment, extend lines of credit and other needs. Thus the " trickle down '' of this credit nightmare begins! HELP!!!!
Company Response:
State: MN
Zip: 554XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2015-09-24
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: No
Date Received: 2015-09-23
Issue: Credit decision / Underwriting
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: After being assured by the loan originator that everything was perfect and there would be no issues in XX/XX/XXXX just now in XX/XX/XXXX I have been denied a mortgage. Of course after spending {$400.00} dollars on an appraisal and countless other {$5.00} transactions to fax over document after document to prove the most ridiculous things, from where deposits as low as {$140.00} came from to the ownership of a XX/XX/XXXX XXXX wheeler. In the end they denied me based on credit issues which have only improved over the four months of jumping through hoops. The reason for denial is a fabricated XXXX and I believe I should get a full tefund for all the money I spent due to being lied to from the start. I believe the underwriting division of this mortgage through 5/3 did not do their job properly as well as the communications between myself and 5/3 mortgage was horrible. I ended up having to reach out to the bank manager to have him contact the loan originator for me. The underwriting department headed by XXXX XXXX has had XXXX contact with me regarding my mortgage application and process for over two months. Then I simply receive a letter stating it was denied. Four months of wasted time and money and not only no mortgage but absolutely no explanation as to why. Horrible customer service.
Company Response:
State: MI
Zip: 48127
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2015-09-23
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: Yes
Date Received: 2015-09-19
Issue: Account opening, closing, or management
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: I have sent XXXX faxes and XXXX letter to Fifth Third bank ( XXXX ) requesting that they close my saving account and send the remainder of my funds in a check to my address. I am ill and I simply do n't have the energy to go back to the bank branch which is XXXX miles from where I live. I would have to take a bus, train and a shuttle to go back to the branch and round trip the travel would take 8 hours. Despite explaining this and asking several times that they close my account, the savings account remains open.
Company Response:
State: FL
Zip: 33401
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2015-09-19
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with non-monetary relief
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: No
Date Received: 2015-09-18
Issue: Loan servicing, payments, escrow account
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: I have a XXXX mortgage with Fifth Third Bank. I pay more than the min payment each month. I also send in a small payment after I make my primary payment for the month. I specifically write both on the memo line of my check and on the mortgage statement " principal only ''. Every time I do this Fifth Third Bank applies my extra payment to principal. I then have to go through the exercise every month of calling them and making them reverse it. I do n't understand why if the loan is current and the payment has been made I can not make a principal only payment.
Company Response:
State: WI
Zip: 537XX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2015-09-18
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: Yes
Date Received: 2015-09-16
Issue: Using a debit or ATM card
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: On XXXX XXXX, 2015 my son and I made a cash deposit into our checking account at our bank at XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX in XXXX OH. It was XXXX We deposited {$2200.00} in cash. The ATM receipt showed we had only deposited {$600.00} We were shorted {$1600.00}. I called the banking center. It was closed. I immediately called the after hours Customer Service phone number to report this. They assured me that they would investigate. I was assigned a " Case Number ''. The bank made a " provisional deposit '' the next day for a total of {$1600.00} We heard nothing else from the bank until XXXX XXXX, 2015 when they debited the {$1600.00} back out from our checking account. I contacted them this evening and the bank refuses to help me, saying that there is nothing further that they can do. I do not know where to turn. My family has banked with this company for over 25 years.
Company Response:
State: OH
Zip: 43065
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2015-09-16
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: No
Date Received: 2015-09-16
Issue: Account opening, closing, or management
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: I had ask Fifth Third Bank on XXXX in XXXX XXXX Florida, to close out my account because I had a lot of unauthorized stuff coming out of my account. I went and talked to XXXX in that branch in the end of XXXX of 2010 she was very rude and would not close out my account she gave me no expiation of why she would n't. I had money going into the account every week but they would take out the debts first and then the credit the check. Which caused us overdraft and then they charged all these fees. These XXXX things not closing out my account and take out debts before crediting my checks that went in automatically. Fifth Third Bank charged me {$1500.00} in returned item fee because the would n't close out my account and {$570.00} in overdraft fees. This was unfair.
Company Response:
State: FL
Zip: XXXXX
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2015-09-16
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: Yes
Date Received: 2015-09-15
Issue: Application processing delay
Subissue:
Consumer Complaint: I received a mail offer to open a new credit card from Fifth Third Bank, XXXX, OH. I submitted an online application in XXXX. I received a letter dated XXXX/XXXX/2015 from the bank, asking for a copy of my Social Security Card. I sent a copy of my Social Security Card by First Class mail, within 30 days as required in the letter. As I received no response from the bank for several days, I called their customer service center and was told that they have received the required document from me and were processing the application. I was told that I would receive a response within a week. Again, there was no communication from the bank for almost a month. I called the customer service number again on XXXX/XXXX/2015, and was told that my application was rejected as the bank received the required document after 30 days from the date of request. However, previously, they had confirmed that the document was received and the application was being processed. I find it disturbing that Fifth Third bank did not inform me about their decision. I had submitted my personal financial details and a copy of my social security card. I would n't have known if they had issued a card and someone else had received it, and started using it. I had to call repeatedly to know the status.
Company Response:
State: IL
Zip: 60614
Submitted Via: Web
Date Sent: 2015-09-15
Company Response to Consumer: Closed with explanation
Timely Response: Yes
Consumer Disputed: Yes