The Washington Post's Kenneth R. Harney reports that mortgage problems make up 28 percent of the 600,000 complaints posted on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's website. Complaints about mortgage lenders, debt collectors, credit-card companies and credit bureaus are logged on the site.
The CFPB started posting narratives for those complaints June 25, but lenders can't post their own narratives. David Stevens, president and chief executive of the Mortgage Bankers Association, told Harney the process is one-sided and uses '“unsubstantiated and unverified'” information that can be submitted by anyone, and the bureau does not “'validate the authenticity of the complaint or the individuals making the complaint.”'
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