America's Servicing Company - Altegra Credit Company refused to reply to letters, forced foreclosure, ripoff Frederick Maryland

My Mortgage was sold to these people about 3 months ago. To date -- no problems. I will say though, their customer service is ROTTEN!!! They have no real website and for the first time since I have been dealing with mortgage companies, they have no way of paying mortgages online. When you call them, after you finally get through (pushing 1 for this and 3 for that, etc) on the phone, the person that you speak to is hardly American!!! IF you can understand what they are saying, they have a hard time ascertaining what your problems are.
Anyway, I will keep a closer eye on my account thanks to rip-off reports...

They are good at accepting payments and then say they never got them. I tried to refinance with several lenders (local and others) and none would do it. They all kept telling me that they would not deal with a company that uses unethical business practices.
They have a rep of buying mortgages then foreclosing and making a bundle in the process while you the hardworking homeowner get screwed.

I just saw your post. California law is that you have 90 days to get caught up on your payments. After a transfer, they cannot hold you in default for 60 days but since you are already late it probably will be reported to your credit. SO, pay immediatley. whatever you do, don't wait to make your payment, yes there can potentially be a problem so don't let any time go by. Hopefully you have been able to correct the problem since your post.

Best of Luck

We were initially serviced by Ameriquest and had received a notice indicating that our loan will be transferred to ASC starting Feb 05. We had been late for our December payment and since we had auto-pay through Ameriquest, our January payment was withdrawn and applied for December and now we are late again for our Jan payment.

I'm getting nervous because when I called Ameriquest, they said that they couldn't do anything because the loan will be transferred to ASC and to call them on or after Feb 1st to inform them that our payment did not go through for January.

When I contacted ASC, the rep indicated that the loan was not in the system yet and to call back after 2/4/05. I am confused and very nervous about the loan payments showing up late on our credit report because we'll have 2 months of late payments through Ameriquest and given what I've read here, we could very well be the next potential foreclosure people. I'm scared because we just moved in in Sept of 2004.

How will this affect our future should we decide to refinance or get a new loan? Also, we have always set up direct withdrawal of our payments with most of our bills.

Now, I'm wondering if this is a good idea to do with Americas Servicing Co. Thank you so much for everyone's input and for sharing your personal experiences. This is my 1st time at this website and I find it very informative. Any advice will be greatly appreciated!

Most people don't know their accounts are being charged fees, late charges or mis-applied payments and/or escrow payments not processed accurately. In order to verify how our payments are processed, we need monthly statements from lender servicers just like we receive from our credit card companies.

It is not the total answer to mortgage servicing fraud, but it affords us the tool to be vigilent consumers that the FTC tells us we need to be. However, it is impossible to follow the progress of our accounts while blindly sending in our payments, trusting they are applied accurately, if we do not have a monthly statements providing us the tool to verify and SEE how our accounts are being handled.

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I have sent ASC two RESPA letters and they have never responded to either! I complained back in September to the Pa. Office of Consumer Protection and once a month ASC writes them a letter saying that they are looking into my case but know nothing yet and Consumer Protection has done nothing but send me ASC response letters. They tried to foreclose and then stopped it themselves and yet they say they don't have my records from the other company.

Within 30 days they increased the amount I owe them by 40,000 yes 40,000 with no explanation. I was paying them extra money every month against the principal and now I suddenly don't have enough in escrow and have been charged for insurance even though I have repeatedly sent them my binder. They also have not told me where the extra money went to.

WIth the settlement they were only made to pay out a small portion of what they owe to their customers that they had abused and screwed out of their hard earned money. So even though they had to pay out they made a lot more than they paid by far and by reading their reports they are still up to their old tricks. I heard from out local news center that did a report on my situation that fairbanks and ameriquest were one in the same and that fairbanks is running businesses under many other names as well. My advise to all is to keep everything you get from them keep receipts cancelled checks to them , and tape record everything they say I do not care if it is legal or not they tape us we take them . Be on your gaurd and do not take any bull from any of these companies .

I'm sorry to hear that you are still going through it, There are laws to protect you and I am sure you will be protected as long as your doing everything you are supposed to and paying when you are suppose to. ALOT of people bring up Fairbank, it seemed like some just throwing it out there to scare people and make their situation more believable (not that I'm saying they are making it up it just seems like there may be more to the story), it's kind of frustrating to read. I

you are the first person that it really applies to obviuosly since you went through it. I take it that you didn't have your home taken away, was it just late fees?

And how in the world did it happen again to you? Who transferred your loan to ASC?

I have been on the phone and made several calls for a week and still have not gotten any concrete information about this company. Good or Bad.
I just don't know what to believe. I'm sure you can relate, I just don't believe EVERYTHING that I read on the internet.

I'm sorry to hear that you are still going through it, There are laws to protect you and I am sure you will be protected as long as your doing everything you are supposed to and paying when you are suppose to. ALOT of people bring up Fairbank, it seemed like some just throwing it out there to scare people and make their situation more believable (not that I'm saying they are making it up it just seems like there may be more to the story), it's kind of frustrating to read. I

you are the first person that it really applies to obviuosly since you went through it. I take it that you didn't have your home taken away, was it just late fees?

And how in the world did it happen again to you? Who transferred your loan to ASC?

I have been on the phone and made several calls for a week and still have not gotten any concrete information about this company. Good or Bad.
I just don't know what to believe. I'm sure you can relate, I just don't believe EVERYTHING that I read on the internet.

I'm sorry to hear that you are still going through it, There are laws to protect you and I am sure you will be protected as long as your doing everything you are supposed to and paying when you are suppose to. ALOT of people bring up Fairbank, it seemed like some just throwing it out there to scare people and make their situation more believable (not that I'm saying they are making it up it just seems like there may be more to the story), it's kind of frustrating to read. I

you are the first person that it really applies to obviuosly since you went through it. I take it that you didn't have your home taken away, was it just late fees?

And how in the world did it happen again to you? Who transferred your loan to ASC?

I have been on the phone and made several calls for a week and still have not gotten any concrete information about this company. Good or Bad.
I just don't know what to believe. I'm sure you can relate, I just don't believe EVERYTHING that I read on the internet.

I'm sorry to hear that you are still going through it, There are laws to protect you and I am sure you will be protected as long as your doing everything you are supposed to and paying when you are suppose to. ALOT of people bring up Fairbank, it seemed like some just throwing it out there to scare people and make their situation more believable (not that I'm saying they are making it up it just seems like there may be more to the story), it's kind of frustrating to read. I

you are the first person that it really applies to obviuosly since you went through it. I take it that you didn't have your home taken away, was it just late fees?

And how in the world did it happen again to you? Who transferred your loan to ASC?

I have been on the phone and made several calls for a week and still have not gotten any concrete information about this company. Good or Bad.
I just don't know what to believe. I'm sure you can relate, I just don't believe EVERYTHING that I read on the internet.

Personally, I can't tell you how everything has panned out, because I'm still smack in the midst of it. I have filed with every regulatory agency, and everyone is working to resolve this problem.

In reference to the statement that these scam companies make millions/billions before being discovered; and a little penalty does not hurt them that much. I was one of those claimants that won in the class action suit against Fairbanks....No you don't get all of your money back when there is a class action suit. I only received 10% of what was stolen from me because of the amount of people who were included in the class action suit. There is a cap on what can be recovered. It seems that the government does not want to take these people out of business, but just reprimand them for their bad deeds. The government gets paid too from these criminals!

any change? Did things work out for everyone?(I hope)

And when you say that millions/billions were made?

How? I'm sure not only were they fined, but they had to reimburse the money taken, right? So it would seem that they would loose money?

I have never been late on a mortgage payment. However, when my mortgage was transferred to America's Service Company, suddenly 3 payments paid to the prior mortgage servicer was "lost." I sent copies of cancelled checks five times from February 2004 to August 2004 by Federal Express and certified mail. Each time, ASC claimed to have not received the packages, although each mailings required signatures. I have all the signature pieces. After contacting the OCC, America's Servicing Company then claimed they had to raise my monthly payment by almost $600.00 per month, because there was no money in my escrow account during the transfer. I then was able to produce a payment ledger from my previous mortgage servicer that showed that there was more than a sufficient amount of funds to cover my taxes and insurance. As of today's date, no one can tell me where the $4000 went that was in my escrow account. ASC tried to say that they paid taxes with the funds. However, my taxes were already paid by the prior mortgage servicer prior to the transfer of the loan, and we have been given proof of that.

Believe me scam companies exist, get caught, pay settlement fees, come back, and change their names. Remember what happened to Fairbanks Capital Corporation? They are now Select Portfolio, and they are doing the same thing that got them in trouble last year. The problem is, before they are caught, they have already made millions/billions on their scam. So a little penalty does not hurt them.

I posted here a couple of days ago, I am being cautious but I have a question for all of you that have been scarring the heck out of me. I have literally lost sleep and have not been able to eat, no joke.

Were you people in default prior to the transfer? or had you always paid your mortgage on time?
(that qustion is not meant to offend anyone I am
just trying to understand the whole picture here) I can imagine that could possible get messed up during the transfer.

I called my broker and asked about this company and she had heard of them and never heard of anything negative.

Also, I was able to call and speak to a representaive at ASC and and she gave me my new loan number, she was very nice and explained the process and basically told me not to worry. Yes, I got her name and her employee ID#. She also told me that Wells Fargo is their parent company.

I am going to set up a direct withdraw with them and have it taken out the 1st of every month.

There are laws against what people are explaining here. Companies cannot just take away your home. from what was explained to me mortgage companies will loose money by doing that. however, I was told by the rep that they are not a mortgage co, they are a servicing co for investors, so if anyone can explain the difference in the law, if any, I would appreciate it.

I have NEVER paid my mortgage late, that is first on my priority list of bills. Again, I am taking precaution during this transfer because of these posts. I already made sure everything is squared away with my present mortgage co. and made sure that there are no errors.

Also, I can imagine that a mortgage co. that transfers a loan to a "rip off" company with illegal business practices can be held liable, am I right?

I looked up some of my old lenders on this website and I saw complaints against them as well. Knowing that I have never had any problems myself makes me believe that it just depends on indivdual situations.

I just hope I'm right.........

I don't want to scare you but Wells Fargo Mortgage is a division of Wells Fargo Bank N.A. that does business as America's Servicing Company.

America's Servicing Company will deny any ties to Wells Fargo when you ask them. They will tell you all sorts of lies when it comes to their affiliation with Wells Fargo.

America's Servicing Company is the company that collects your mortgage or loan payments. You can read all the stories of people that are having problems with these companies here at the Rip-Off Report.

Please do a search here at the Rip-Off Report for Wells Fargo, there are numerous complaints people have about the way their mortgages are being serviced.

Compare the complaints about America's Servicing Company and Wells Fargo, you will see enough similarities to know that this is something to be extremely concerned about.

Wells Fargo may not own your loan, the company that you got your original loan from (loan originator) may still own the loan, but are only transferring the servicing rights (bill collecting) for them.

America's Servicing Company will be who you will deal with when it comes to payments and such. Your original mortgage company will tell you they can no longer help you after your account is transferred to America's Servicing Company. (Sad but true!)

PLEASE go to the below website ASAP and read everything you can on writing a RESPA Letter to your present mortgage company.

Even if you are not having problems yet, it is very adviseable to ask any questions you have about your mortgage using the RESPA Letter this way you will have the answers before your mortgage is transferred/sold to America's Servicing Company:

http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/res/respa_hm.cfm

It has a sample copy of a RESPA Letter that you should send to your mortgage company. Ask your mortgage company the questions you need answered, and also request them to send you a master copy of your mortgage payment history from the date the mortgage began to present.

You need to do this NOW as in AS SOON AS YOU READ THIS RESPONSE.

On the same day (TODAY) that you mail your RESPA Letter to your mortgage company, call your mortgage company and request a master copy of your mortgage payments from the date you made your first payment until the day they send you the copies. This will be two requests for the same information.

Go to your local Court House and get a certified copy of your Mortgage and Note.

Also gather up all you receipts, cancelled checks, or what-ever receipts you have that you used to make payments on your loan.

Dig out your Mortgage and Note papers and put these with your payment receipts. This way you will have your account information from your mortgage originator before America's Servicing Company takes over and totally screws up your account.

Go out and buy yourself a nice bound book for keeping track of everything you do when it comes to your loan.

If you call your mortgage company or they call you, write down the date, time, year and the NAME of the person you spoke to and go into detail as much as you can about the conversations you have with these people. Keep your notes as accurate as you possibly can.

If you make a mistake in the book, DO NOT TEAR OUT THE PAGE AND START AGAIN, instead, cross out the mistake and continue your notes. This is very important!

Once you have your receipts, master payment history and what-ever else you can find about your loan, put everything in order according to date and place it in a protective envelope and put in a safe place.

In this same book keep track of all your payments as to how you paid your loan, where you made the payment and what time the payment was made.

It costs a few dollars, but totally worth it to send your mortgage or loan payments to America's Servicing Company via Western Union Quick Collect.

This not only gives you a receipt for the payment, but it also gives you a way to track your payments using an outside source.

Using Western Union Quick Collect gets your payment to America's Servicing Company within 30 minutes after you make the payment.

Always try to make the payment before 2:00 P.M. on any day but Friday. The reason being is that any payments after 2:00 P.M. will not be posted to your account with America's Servicing Company on that day.

NEVER make a payment on a FRIDAY because it can delay your payment being posted to your account for at least 3 days.

At the end of the year or if you loose your Western Union Receipts you can contact the Western Union Qwick Collect Office and request a research for your payments for a small fee.

I highly recommend you contact the Western Union Quick Collect Office at the end of the year and ask for a print out of all the payments you made for that given year.

They will send you a letter with all your payments and it will include transaction information that will be very useful when you need to be able to make sure your payments were applied to your account correctly.

PLEASE, PLEASE keep track of everything that transpires with your account at America's Servicing Company.

Check your monthly statement and make sure your payments are applied to your account correctly. Also keep track of your Escrow Account and ask questions if there are charges that you didn't know about, or understand.

Look for errors, extra charges, inspection fees, anything that looks wrong or out of place contact your mortgage company immediately to question these transactions and rectify the problem before America's Servicing Company gets your account.

If your account is transferred to America's Servicing Company with errors, they will blame the other company and insist the records are correct and it is virtually impossible to get any cooperation from America's Servicing Company once your account is transferred.

Ask questions and if you are not satisfied with the answers, ask for a Supervisor. Most times they will deny a request to speak to a Supervisor. Make sure you note everything in your book as accurately as possible.

If something doesn't sound right to you, it's probably wrong.

Don't believe everything they tell you, verify it for yourself and correct them when they are wrong.

NEVER, I repeat NEVER sign anything unless you understand it fully.

Ask more questions and if you don't receive the answers you need, ask someone else. You'll find you will get several different answers to the same question from several different people at America's Servicing Company, this is why it is very important that you understand the mortgage and Note you signed.

Learn how to read your Mortgage and Note. Research the Internet for the things you don't understand ask questions from people in the industry.

The Internet is a great source of information for getting answers to your questions.

And IF you find yourself having problems or complaints, don't forget to come back to the Rip-Off Report and file your own complaint.

Good Luck!

I don't want to scare you but Wells Fargo Mortgage is a division of Wells Fargo Bank N.A. that does business as America's Servicing Company.

America's Servicing Company will deny any ties to Wells Fargo when you ask them. They will tell you all sorts of lies when it comes to their affiliation with Wells Fargo.

America's Servicing Company is the company that collects your mortgage or loan payments. You can read all the stories of people that are having problems with these companies here at the Rip-Off Report.

Please do a search here at the Rip-Off Report for Wells Fargo, there are numerous complaints people have about the way their mortgages are being serviced.

Compare the complaints about America's Servicing Company and Wells Fargo, you will see enough similarities to know that this is something to be extremely concerned about.

Wells Fargo may not own your loan, the company that you got your original loan from (loan originator) may still own the loan, but are only transferring the servicing rights (bill collecting) for them.

America's Servicing Company will be who you will deal with when it comes to payments and such. Your original mortgage company will tell you they can no longer help you after your account is transferred to America's Servicing Company. (Sad but true!)

PLEASE go to the below website ASAP and read everything you can on writing a RESPA Letter to your present mortgage company.

Even if you are not having problems yet, it is very adviseable to ask any questions you have about your mortgage using the RESPA Letter this way you will have the answers before your mortgage is transferred/sold to America's Servicing Company:

http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/res/respa_hm.cfm

It has a sample copy of a RESPA Letter that you should send to your mortgage company. Ask your mortgage company the questions you need answered, and also request them to send you a master copy of your mortgage payment history from the date the mortgage began to present.

You need to do this NOW as in AS SOON AS YOU READ THIS RESPONSE.

On the same day (TODAY) that you mail your RESPA Letter to your mortgage company, call your mortgage company and request a master copy of your mortgage payments from the date you made your first payment until the day they send you the copies. This will be two requests for the same information.

Go to your local Court House and get a certified copy of your Mortgage and Note.

Also gather up all you receipts, cancelled checks, or what-ever receipts you have that you used to make payments on your loan.

Dig out your Mortgage and Note papers and put these with your payment receipts. This way you will have your account information from your mortgage originator before America's Servicing Company takes over and totally screws up your account.

Go out and buy yourself a nice bound book for keeping track of everything you do when it comes to your loan.

If you call your mortgage company or they call you, write down the date, time, year and the NAME of the person you spoke to and go into detail as much as you can about the conversations you have with these people. Keep your notes as accurate as you possibly can.

If you make a mistake in the book, DO NOT TEAR OUT THE PAGE AND START AGAIN, instead, cross out the mistake and continue your notes. This is very important!

Once you have your receipts, master payment history and what-ever else you can find about your loan, put everything in order according to date and place it in a protective envelope and put in a safe place.

In this same book keep track of all your payments as to how you paid your loan, where you made the payment and what time the payment was made.

It costs a few dollars, but totally worth it to send your mortgage or loan payments to America's Servicing Company via Western Union Quick Collect.

This not only gives you a receipt for the payment, but it also gives you a way to track your payments using an outside source.

Using Western Union Quick Collect gets your payment to America's Servicing Company within 30 minutes after you make the payment.

Always try to make the payment before 2:00 P.M. on any day but Friday. The reason being is that any payments after 2:00 P.M. will not be posted to your account with America's Servicing Company on that day.

NEVER make a payment on a FRIDAY because it can delay your payment being posted to your account for at least 3 days.

At the end of the year or if you loose your Western Union Receipts you can contact the Western Union Qwick Collect Office and request a research for your payments for a small fee.

I highly recommend you contact the Western Union Quick Collect Office at the end of the year and ask for a print out of all the payments you made for that given year.

They will send you a letter with all your payments and it will include transaction information that will be very useful when you need to be able to make sure your payments were applied to your account correctly.

PLEASE, PLEASE keep track of everything that transpires with your account at America's Servicing Company.

Check your monthly statement and make sure your payments are applied to your account correctly. Also keep track of your Escrow Account and ask questions if there are charges that you didn't know about, or understand.

Look for errors, extra charges, inspection fees, anything that looks wrong or out of place contact your mortgage company immediately to question these transactions and rectify the problem before America's Servicing Company gets your account.

If your account is transferred to America's Servicing Company with errors, they will blame the other company and insist the records are correct and it is virtually impossible to get any cooperation from America's Servicing Company once your account is transferred.

Ask questions and if you are not satisfied with the answers, ask for a Supervisor. Most times they will deny a request to speak to a Supervisor. Make sure you note everything in your book as accurately as possible.

If something doesn't sound right to you, it's probably wrong.

Don't believe everything they tell you, verify it for yourself and correct them when they are wrong.

NEVER, I repeat NEVER sign anything unless you understand it fully.

Ask more questions and if you don't receive the answers you need, ask someone else. You'll find you will get several different answers to the same question from several different people at America's Servicing Company, this is why it is very important that you understand the mortgage and Note you signed.

Learn how to read your Mortgage and Note. Research the Internet for the things you don't understand ask questions from people in the industry.

The Internet is a great source of information for getting answers to your questions.

And IF you find yourself having problems or complaints, don't forget to come back to the Rip-Off Report and file your own complaint.

Good Luck!

I don't want to scare you but Wells Fargo Mortgage is a division of Wells Fargo Bank N.A. that does business as America's Servicing Company.

America's Servicing Company will deny any ties to Wells Fargo when you ask them. They will tell you all sorts of lies when it comes to their affiliation with Wells Fargo.

America's Servicing Company is the company that collects your mortgage or loan payments. You can read all the stories of people that are having problems with these companies here at the Rip-Off Report.

Please do a search here at the Rip-Off Report for Wells Fargo, there are numerous complaints people have about the way their mortgages are being serviced.

Compare the complaints about America's Servicing Company and Wells Fargo, you will see enough similarities to know that this is something to be extremely concerned about.

Wells Fargo may not own your loan, the company that you got your original loan from (loan originator) may still own the loan, but are only transferring the servicing rights (bill collecting) for them.

America's Servicing Company will be who you will deal with when it comes to payments and such. Your original mortgage company will tell you they can no longer help you after your account is transferred to America's Servicing Company. (Sad but true!)

PLEASE go to the below website ASAP and read everything you can on writing a RESPA Letter to your present mortgage company.

Even if you are not having problems yet, it is very adviseable to ask any questions you have about your mortgage using the RESPA Letter this way you will have the answers before your mortgage is transferred/sold to America's Servicing Company:

http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/res/respa_hm.cfm

It has a sample copy of a RESPA Letter that you should send to your mortgage company. Ask your mortgage company the questions you need answered, and also request them to send you a master copy of your mortgage payment history from the date the mortgage began to present.

You need to do this NOW as in AS SOON AS YOU READ THIS RESPONSE.

On the same day (TODAY) that you mail your RESPA Letter to your mortgage company, call your mortgage company and request a master copy of your mortgage payments from the date you made your first payment until the day they send you the copies. This will be two requests for the same information.

Go to your local Court House and get a certified copy of your Mortgage and Note.

Also gather up all you receipts, cancelled checks, or what-ever receipts you have that you used to make payments on your loan.

Dig out your Mortgage and Note papers and put these with your payment receipts. This way you will have your account information from your mortgage originator before America's Servicing Company takes over and totally screws up your account.

Go out and buy yourself a nice bound book for keeping track of everything you do when it comes to your loan.

If you call your mortgage company or they call you, write down the date, time, year and the NAME of the person you spoke to and go into detail as much as you can about the conversations you have with these people. Keep your notes as accurate as you possibly can.

If you make a mistake in the book, DO NOT TEAR OUT THE PAGE AND START AGAIN, instead, cross out the mistake and continue your notes. This is very important!

Once you have your receipts, master payment history and what-ever else you can find about your loan, put everything in order according to date and place it in a protective envelope and put in a safe place.

In this same book keep track of all your payments as to how you paid your loan, where you made the payment and what time the payment was made.

It costs a few dollars, but totally worth it to send your mortgage or loan payments to America's Servicing Company via Western Union Quick Collect.

This not only gives you a receipt for the payment, but it also gives you a way to track your payments using an outside source.

Using Western Union Quick Collect gets your payment to America's Servicing Company within 30 minutes after you make the payment.

Always try to make the payment before 2:00 P.M. on any day but Friday. The reason being is that any payments after 2:00 P.M. will not be posted to your account with America's Servicing Company on that day.

NEVER make a payment on a FRIDAY because it can delay your payment being posted to your account for at least 3 days.

At the end of the year or if you loose your Western Union Receipts you can contact the Western Union Qwick Collect Office and request a research for your payments for a small fee.

I highly recommend you contact the Western Union Quick Collect Office at the end of the year and ask for a print out of all the payments you made for that given year.

They will send you a letter with all your payments and it will include transaction information that will be very useful when you need to be able to make sure your payments were applied to your account correctly.

PLEASE, PLEASE keep track of everything that transpires with your account at America's Servicing Company.

Check your monthly statement and make sure your payments are applied to your account correctly. Also keep track of your Escrow Account and ask questions if there are charges that you didn't know about, or understand.

Look for errors, extra charges, inspection fees, anything that looks wrong or out of place contact your mortgage company immediately to question these transactions and rectify the problem before America's Servicing Company gets your account.

If your account is transferred to America's Servicing Company with errors, they will blame the other company and insist the records are correct and it is virtually impossible to get any cooperation from America's Servicing Company once your account is transferred.

Ask questions and if you are not satisfied with the answers, ask for a Supervisor. Most times they will deny a request to speak to a Supervisor. Make sure you note everything in your book as accurately as possible.

If something doesn't sound right to you, it's probably wrong.

Don't believe everything they tell you, verify it for yourself and correct them when they are wrong.

NEVER, I repeat NEVER sign anything unless you understand it fully.

Ask more questions and if you don't receive the answers you need, ask someone else. You'll find you will get several different answers to the same question from several different people at America's Servicing Company, this is why it is very important that you understand the mortgage and Note you signed.

Learn how to read your Mortgage and Note. Research the Internet for the things you don't understand ask questions from people in the industry.

The Internet is a great source of information for getting answers to your questions.

And IF you find yourself having problems or complaints, don't forget to come back to the Rip-Off Report and file your own complaint.

Good Luck!

I don't want to scare you but Wells Fargo Mortgage is a division of Wells Fargo Bank N.A. that does business as America's Servicing Company.

America's Servicing Company will deny any ties to Wells Fargo when you ask them. They will tell you all sorts of lies when it comes to their affiliation with Wells Fargo.

America's Servicing Company is the company that collects your mortgage or loan payments. You can read all the stories of people that are having problems with these companies here at the Rip-Off Report.

Please do a search here at the Rip-Off Report for Wells Fargo, there are numerous complaints people have about the way their mortgages are being serviced.

Compare the complaints about America's Servicing Company and Wells Fargo, you will see enough similarities to know that this is something to be extremely concerned about.

Wells Fargo may not own your loan, the company that you got your original loan from (loan originator) may still own the loan, but are only transferring the servicing rights (bill collecting) for them.

America's Servicing Company will be who you will deal with when it comes to payments and such. Your original mortgage company will tell you they can no longer help you after your account is transferred to America's Servicing Company. (Sad but true!)

PLEASE go to the below website ASAP and read everything you can on writing a RESPA Letter to your present mortgage company.

Even if you are not having problems yet, it is very adviseable to ask any questions you have about your mortgage using the RESPA Letter this way you will have the answers before your mortgage is transferred/sold to America's Servicing Company:

http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/res/respa_hm.cfm

It has a sample copy of a RESPA Letter that you should send to your mortgage company. Ask your mortgage company the questions you need answered, and also request them to send you a master copy of your mortgage payment history from the date the mortgage began to present.

You need to do this NOW as in AS SOON AS YOU READ THIS RESPONSE.

On the same day (TODAY) that you mail your RESPA Letter to your mortgage company, call your mortgage company and request a master copy of your mortgage payments from the date you made your first payment until the day they send you the copies. This will be two requests for the same information.

Go to your local Court House and get a certified copy of your Mortgage and Note.

Also gather up all you receipts, cancelled checks, or what-ever receipts you have that you used to make payments on your loan.

Dig out your Mortgage and Note papers and put these with your payment receipts. This way you will have your account information from your mortgage originator before America's Servicing Company takes over and totally screws up your account.

Go out and buy yourself a nice bound book for keeping track of everything you do when it comes to your loan.

If you call your mortgage company or they call you, write down the date, time, year and the NAME of the person you spoke to and go into detail as much as you can about the conversations you have with these people. Keep your notes as accurate as you possibly can.

If you make a mistake in the book, DO NOT TEAR OUT THE PAGE AND START AGAIN, instead, cross out the mistake and continue your notes. This is very important!

Once you have your receipts, master payment history and what-ever else you can find about your loan, put everything in order according to date and place it in a protective envelope and put in a safe place.

In this same book keep track of all your payments as to how you paid your loan, where you made the payment and what time the payment was made.

It costs a few dollars, but totally worth it to send your mortgage or loan payments to America's Servicing Company via Western Union Quick Collect.

This not only gives you a receipt for the payment, but it also gives you a way to track your payments using an outside source.

Using Western Union Quick Collect gets your payment to America's Servicing Company within 30 minutes after you make the payment.

Always try to make the payment before 2:00 P.M. on any day but Friday. The reason being is that any payments after 2:00 P.M. will not be posted to your account with America's Servicing Company on that day.

NEVER make a payment on a FRIDAY because it can delay your payment being posted to your account for at least 3 days.

At the end of the year or if you loose your Western Union Receipts you can contact the Western Union Qwick Collect Office and request a research for your payments for a small fee.

I highly recommend you contact the Western Union Quick Collect Office at the end of the year and ask for a print out of all the payments you made for that given year.

They will send you a letter with all your payments and it will include transaction information that will be very useful when you need to be able to make sure your payments were applied to your account correctly.

PLEASE, PLEASE keep track of everything that transpires with your account at America's Servicing Company.

Check your monthly statement and make sure your payments are applied to your account correctly. Also keep track of your Escrow Account and ask questions if there are charges that you didn't know about, or understand.

Look for errors, extra charges, inspection fees, anything that looks wrong or out of place contact your mortgage company immediately to question these transactions and rectify the problem before America's Servicing Company gets your account.

If your account is transferred to America's Servicing Company with errors, they will blame the other company and insist the records are correct and it is virtually impossible to get any cooperation from America's Servicing Company once your account is transferred.

Ask questions and if you are not satisfied with the answers, ask for a Supervisor. Most times they will deny a request to speak to a Supervisor. Make sure you note everything in your book as accurately as possible.

If something doesn't sound right to you, it's probably wrong.

Don't believe everything they tell you, verify it for yourself and correct them when they are wrong.

NEVER, I repeat NEVER sign anything unless you understand it fully.

Ask more questions and if you don't receive the answers you need, ask someone else. You'll find you will get several different answers to the same question from several different people at America's Servicing Company, this is why it is very important that you understand the mortgage and Note you signed.

Learn how to read your Mortgage and Note. Research the Internet for the things you don't understand ask questions from people in the industry.

The Internet is a great source of information for getting answers to your questions.

And IF you find yourself having problems or complaints, don't forget to come back to the Rip-Off Report and file your own complaint.

Good Luck!

I just read Liza post and my loan is being transferred in FEB 2005 also. I found that there is a link between ASC adn well's fargo. I contacted wellfargo but no one could tell me exactly how there are affiliated. This is a concern to me as well. Is well's fargo considered the new lender but ASC is servicing the loan? Can someone explain more in detail. I looked up BBB and there is an unsatisfactory mark against this company(if it's the same). I found a website www.ascservicing.com they say they are a division of a well respected loan company, but they do not mention the name. I'm worried....

Please don't mis-understand what I am going to say here, I am not trying to be mean, sarcastic, or scare you in any way.

I just want you to be prepared. The same things that happened to those who have posted here at the Rip-off Report can happen to you. Please keep an eye on your payments and keep all your records in a safe place.

I am well aware of the payment methods accepted by them for a cost. BUT, because of they way they have handled my account, I need something more concrete as proof that payments were sent on time. That is why I choose to send my payments Western Union Quick Collect.

Western Union gives me a Money Transfer Control Number and I can check with them and get the date, time and acknowledgement number if and when I need it. This way I have proof from an independant source that my payments were made.

I would never give bank account information to anyone unless I feel it's necessary to do so. Your assets can be frozen and taken over at anytime they so choose. Giving access to your account information is inviting trouble.

Depending on what state you live in, it may be illegal to tape conversations. This is something you will have to be very careful about, the laws vary from state to state.

It's amazing you got through to ASC, had a response and they actually helped you.

I'm glad you have had good relations with these people and it's nice you feel secure in the way they handle your account.

The confidence you have in ASC is nice, but I ask that you please read the rest of the posts listed on Rip-Off Report about America's Servicing Company.

When you are finished reading the ASC reports, then search Wells Fargo and read the posts on the Rip-Off Report for the ones dealing with mortgages, foreclosures, etc.

After you finish your reading these posts, please keep this in mind each month you make a payment to ASC.

If strange things start happening to your account, and you can't get any cooperation from ASC, please come back here and add your own post listing the complaints you have.

It should be interesting reading.

FYI.. Wells Fargo is the parent company of ASC and I am sure you have heard of the class action suit filed by ACORN against Wells Fargo.. RIGHT??

Take care.. and Good Luck!

Our mortgage was bought out by America's Servicing Company in August of 2004 after it was just transferred to another company which escapes me from our original lender Saxon. ASC was very good about the transfer and even when we had three hurricanes in Florida, they offered to give us a 90-day grace period with no late fees or threatening letters because of the impact the hurricanes in preperation and repair caused on our monthly income.

They offer a pay-by-phone service which is a little pricy at $12.50 per shot, but they also allow you to deduct from your checking account automatically. The only problem is that they will only go five days past your due date for withdrawal which is a problem for my wife and I because our paychecks fall on the 15th of the month.

Overall, I am very pleased with ASC's service and haven't encountered any of the problems the first person did have. I would just proceed with caution, but what I do is always tape my conversations with them and write down the employee name and employee number of everyone I speak with.

Our mortgage was bought out by America's Servicing Company in August of 2004 after it was just transferred to another company which escapes me from our original lender Saxon. ASC was very good about the transfer and even when we had three hurricanes in Florida, they offered to give us a 90-day grace period with no late fees or threatening letters because of the impact the hurricanes in preperation and repair caused on our monthly income.

They offer a pay-by-phone service which is a little pricy at $12.50 per shot, but they also allow you to deduct from your checking account automatically. The only problem is that they will only go five days past your due date for withdrawal which is a problem for my wife and I because our paychecks fall on the 15th of the month.

Overall, I am very pleased with ASC's service and haven't encountered any of the problems the first person did have. I would just proceed with caution, but what I do is always tape my conversations with them and write down the employee name and employee number of everyone I speak with.

I have just recently been notified by my mortgage company Ameriquest that my loan has been sold to America's Servicing Company as of Februaury 2005. I decided to do some research on Goggle on ASC and it immediately put me here. I have read the posts about this company and I am VERY concerned about what I read but I would also like to ask these people what they might have done differently to assure that these things wouldn't happen again. I'm very sorry for all the problems you have had with this company but I would like to ask for your hindsight on what I might do to make sure these things don't happen to me.

Thanx in Advance..........

DO NOT AGREE TO ANYTHING. Continue to send in your monthly payments--even if they send them back. Contact your representatives at The Office of Thrift Supervision---mine is Eddy Norfleet, and The Office of Financial Regulation, (Attorney General's Office), mine is Marcia Bailey. The Office of Financial Regulation along with the Office of Thrift Supervision has stopped America's Servicing Company forclosing on my home 2 times, and still they are up to their same old tricks.

I like you, received my September payment back because they claimed they never received my last 3 payments from my previous loan servicer. I sent them cancelled checks---and still nothing. They send a blanket note stating they are investigating--just to appease RESPA. However, nothing further is done. If you sign a document now, it supercedes the contract you have already established--and one in which A.S.C. has defaulted on. However, a new contract with them will cost you more money in the long run---and you will find out that they want you home, and not your money. They will find a way for it to appear that you have defaulted. Companies like these resort to intimidation tactics, because the general public will fall for it---they are afraid of losing their property, and in the end....they lose their property.

If a forclosure is pending contact the Office of Thrift Supervision to stop the foreclosure---again, and again if you have to. Filing for bankruptcy is unnecessary, and believe me, A.S.C. will come up with outrageous charges and fees, costing you another tens of thousands of dollars to be paid to them. You are not alone. Just ride this thing out---and in the end, we will all win!