Consumers’ Written Requests for Information, Contentions of Servicing Error Trigger RESPA Protections, U.S. Court Finds
January 20, 2011
Borrower inquiries to a mortgage servicer asking for information or contending an error in servicing are “qualified written requests” under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, according to a Chicago federal appeals court. Ruling recently in Catalan v. GMAC Mortgage Corp., the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit shone...