We have been in the process of modifying our mortgage, which is an investor-owned mortgage with XXXX, serviced by Bank of America. We began this process back in XX/XX/XXXX ; I requested a modification because the term of the existing modification had expired. More importantly, I have a new job overseas, which will result in a significant reduction of income. Long story short, Bank of America has made this process a complete nightmare from the outset. They are either willfully incompetent or are wittingly engaged in illegal activities. They have made agreements in bad faith regarding the removal of the escrow account they they added in error in the first place ; they did irreparable damage to our credit ; they put me at risk of losing my job. They previously added an escrow account to the loan which they themselves advised was NOT REQUIRED for our loan program. 
After 7 months of the back and forth, our customer account manager changing XXXX times, we were going to opt out of the modification because there seemed to be no end in site that would be advantageous to our family. Why would we sign up for a loan to modify our existing payment that is MORE than what we were paying? 

After posting my displeasure via social media, we finally got some response and are currently in the closing phase of the loan modification. However, it has been stalled for the past 3 months because BOA lost the original loan documents. We signed the loan documents on XX/XX/XXXX. We had to download the documents from BOA 's loan portal because we can not receive XXXX XXXX and BOA would not mail to our overseas address because it is a XXXX XXXX . I called BOA to advise that I sent the documents as instructed in the cover letter to a XXXX XXXX in XXXX XXXX, CA. However, learned on XXXX XXXX that the forwarding service had expired on that XXXX XXXX and it was supposed to be returned to me. However, I just checked the tracking on XXXX that the documents were signed for by XXXX at Bank of America in XXXX TX on XXXX XXXX. They have held unapplied funds for 3 months - even though we have made the FULL contracted payment, charged late fees, and reported us for non-payment/delinquency, while we have patiently waited for our loan to close. I did try to contact XXXX via the XXXX Manager but there has been no real follow-up on my inquiries since XX/XX/XXXX. 
