Elizabeth
McHenry,#2Consumer Comment
Wed, August 21, 2002
One thing that Liz did not tell you is that according to federal banking laws, whenever a mortgage is sold or transfered, there is a 60 day "grace period" to allow all the glitches like the one you ran into to be worked out. In that grace period, they cannot declare any payment that was lost, misapplied, or received after your due date LATE during that time frame. They are also NOT allowed to add any late fees to your account or report it to any credit agency. So Ocwen reporting that your payments were late is in violation of federal banking laws.
Liz
Tempe,#3Consumer Comment
Wed, August 21, 2002
I wanted to give you a better understanding about New century Mortgage and Ocwen. My husband works for the largest financial instituion in the United States in the collections field. He is an asset manager in mortgage collections. We too had a loan through New Century up until the year 2000. What happens in the world of mortgages is that banks sell what they call paper back and forth amongst each other. New Century sold some of their loans (paper) to Ocwen. They are not the same company. When you get a loan through and institution there is no saying who it will be sold to. Unfortunately there is no law that can stop them. We too are having our share of problems recently with them so I know what you are going through.