Mortgage Servicer Payoff Statement Delays Block Home Sale Closings
Homeowners attempting to close property sales are blocked when mortgage servicers like ServiceMac fail to provide timely payoff statements to title companies. This is a systemic issue across the mortgage servicing industry that creates costly closing delays and jeopardizes transactions.
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