J A George
Surprise,#2General Comment
Mon, June 22, 2015
I had seen this complaint years ago and just ran accross it again today. This complaint is not presented by a consumer or customer of CFF. This was a mortgage broker in the Phoenix area. I was licensed in four states including California. She had agreed to send my loan officer a file she had that needed to close on a California home. She was not licensed there, I was. My loan officer worked an agreement with her that my company would process the loan, close the loan, and I personally would be legally responsible for the mortgage. All for $250.00. The comission was about $8,000. She was a licensed mortge broker. She knew if she wanted to do any business with me and my company she needed to come directly to me, the broker and responsible individual regestered with theAZ State Banking Dept. My loan officer was not authorized to negotiate any agreemet with anyone on behalf of CFF. The normal agreement was a 50/50 split. She was extremely upset, yes indeed she was. She knew per regulations she needed to come to me. Not a loan officer. We sent her half of the commission and the transaction was complete. My loan officer wanted to split the $250.00 commission "with the house". He went to the trouble to work a loan from start to finish for $125.00.
This is what they were working out between the two of them, He would get the loan through the prosess, close the loan. Earn the company $125.00, himself $125.00, and split the commission with the local broker outside the office. That was the agreement between them. I liked the loan officer, but this arangement would not work. I fired the loan officer a while later for another issue of dishonesty.