Looks like our closing/settlement company forgot to disburse our first county tax payment. So, our mortgage company diligently paid the bill from escrow when it arrived — of course, there wasn’t enough in escrow to cover it yet, as the next payment wasn’t supposed to be paid until dec or jan. Mortgage company tells us we’re now severly short of escrow and jacks up the payments considerably to correct the problem. I have to pore over paperwork to figure out what went wrong, cause I knew we’d paid 6 months of taxes at closing.
Seemed like a phone call will fix it up right quick — except our closing company closed up several shops and our attorney no longer works with them — at least he was easy to reach to tell me this. So now it’s playing telephone with the people I need to talk to to figure out just what they did with that first tax payment that never went to the county. I’m hoping Thanksgiving doesn’t throw a wrench in things cause I need this cleared up by the end of the month.
Since I’m spending so much time on the phone, maybe I should call some local oil companies. I’m hoping that our new customer status will win up some bonus points that waiting until heating season has lost us.