Tag Archives: Consumer Complaints

Many housing companies and landlords across the country can and do require a background check as part of the application process, along with the traditional credit check, but the unverified or inaccurate information contained in them usually hurts renters first.

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) approaches one million complaints handled in its five-year history, mortgages are no longer the most complained-about financial product.

The number of loan servicing, escrow, and payment-related complaints has been relatively stable with the volume of current inventory over the two-year period of 2013 and 2014. As of the end of 2014, the number of such complaints averaged less than one per every 10,000 current loans (0.77).