My family has been USAA members for several years. Have always been happy with service until our recent experience with the mortgage division. We have experienced 5 weeks of delays from USAA during the loan approval process. The loan officer has been unresponsive, unreliable, non-communicative and has lacked accountability. Despite our elevation of the customer service issues to her Manager, the poor service has remained unchanged. My husband has had to "baby-sit" the loan approval process the entire time with weekly calls to see if everything is on track. The icing on the cake was when he checked in today to make sure everything was on track and he recieved a phone call back at 8 pm EST stating we were missing a title document from the title company and "probably wouldn't close on time." This is 8 p.m. the day before all documents were due. And we were never informed there was a missing document until 8 p.m. And the only reason we know about it is because my husband called to check in on the status. And now the loan officer is saying even if we get it in tomorrow, "we probably can't process it in time for tre closing." This is unacceptable and shows a lack of accountability, communication and respect for the stress related to a move. I wish we could start over with someone else that embodied simple tenets of good customer service through this process. Folks, be warned before you start the mortgage process with USAA. (Original Post on USAA Facebook Page)
Now, two days later this situation keeps getting worse. Now this morning (2 days after my original post), we hear from our contact that we can't close until the 15th (2 days late!). Then spend 45 minutes on the phone with someone two levels up from this person who claimed they "can't do anything about it and there are other families in this situation." Of course we know there are other people in this situation, because clearly at least two others (on this thread) have experiences the same lack of accountability, dragging of feet, lack of organization and communication as we have. Now, they are going to "see" what they can do to maybe have a chance of closing just 1 day late. Unbelievable. The stress this has caused will not be easily forgotten. USAA has gone from the best customer service to the worst customer service. USAA Leadership Team, please evaluate this part of the business. You would be shocked at the damage this part of your organization is doing to your brand.
