Tracking mortgage’s owner can be ordeal

Alan Fagan finally figured out who owns his mortgage.

He had lost his job, was running up credit cards paying bills, and faced foreclosure.

Citimortgage, a division of America’s third-largest bank, services the loan and told him repeatedly it could not modify the terms or offer him a revised repayment plan. Why? The investors who own the mortgage wouldn’t allow it.

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