The consumer bureau alleged problems at the company are wide ranging and include ignoring consumer complaints, deceptively signing people up for add-on products and bungling the foreclosure process. For example, Ocwen foreclosed on borrowers before reviewing their loss-mitigation applications and even foreclosed on people who were accepted and fulfilling obligations under the program, the bureau alleged.
In some cases, Ocwen asked borrowers for more information and gave them 30 days to submit it but foreclosed before that deadline. The system frequently failed and generated errors, requiring workers to employ manual workarounds that simply produced further inaccuracies, the agency said. As of Dec. The deal allowed the company to add new California mortgages to its books, which it had been barred from doing since January Follow me khouriandrew on Twitter.
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Grow Your Legal Practice. Meet the Editors. Ocwen, which is the largest non-bank mortgage servicer in the country, had to pay certain borrowers money under a national mortgage settlement. The Ocwen National Mortgage Settlement An investigation into Ocwen's foreclosure activities revealed extensive loan servicing misconduct, including among other things : robosigning where foreclosure documents were signed by people who had no knowledge about whether the information contained in the documents was correct charging improper fees providing false or misleading reasons for denying loan modifications , and failing to honor in-process loan modifications agreed to by prior servicers.
Relief Provided by the Settlement The settlement required Ocwen to provide the following forms of relief to eligible borrowers. Continuing Servicing Problems Even after the national mortgage settlement, Ocwen continued to violate the law when servicing mortgage loans, as evidenced by numerous regulatory actions and lawsuits against the servicer. Talk to an Attorney So, again, if Ocwen currently services your mortgage and you think you're being treated unfairly or illegally—particularly if you're in foreclosure—you should talk to a lawyer as soon as possible.
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