I re-financed with loanDepot two months ago. I have always made partial payments with my previous lender ( 2 per month from my banks bill pay service ). loanDeport advised that they do not take partial payments AFTER suckering me into signing closing papers. I informed loanDepot that if they had disclosed their terms in the closing documents I would have stayed with my previous lender or gone with another lender as I had other offers. loanDeport replied that if I continued to send partial payments XXXX things could happen " ( 1 ) returned to you, ( 2 ) applied to your loan, ( 3 ) accepted but held in a non-interest bearing unapplied funds account until you send us additional funds sufficient to equal a full periodic payment due. '' I replied that option 3 was OK with me as this is what my previous lender has done. loanDepot also informed me that the only way they took partial payments was if I signed up for their " Budget Plan ''. In other words they want to force me to give them control of my payments and let them have my bank information. I did review all my closing documents and loanDepot 's only disclosure was the amount of my monthly payment and the date is was due. No disclosure that I had to make the entire amount in one payment. 
I made a partial payment of {$500.00} on XXXX/XXXX/16 and loanDepot choose to apply the payment as additional principal. 
