This should probably go in The Pit, but it’s awful small for a Pitting, and the thread following is here already.
I had to call the mortgage company to get the payoff amount. I have explicit instructions from them to provide a signed purchase agreement ASAP to forestall foreclosure/surrender, and I needed the payoff to finalize the PA. Except, the mortgage people would not give me the payoff because the account was tagged for foreclosure. The definition of Catch-22…
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Ask for his name and his boss. Then go up the ranks. It absolutly is not in their best interest to blow this.
It got resolved; I got my number, and I should have said so. Sorry.
The lady on the other end had to take the foreclosure tag off the account, calculate the payoff, and then put the tag bag. The tag comes off again when they get a copy of the PA.
The petty bureaucracy was appalling, and I’m a FedGov employee, so I have expertise in the issue.
Selling a house is sooooo stressful. Good luck to you.
Many congrats, vunderbob!!! When is closing? Hope it’s reeeeeal soon!
After another gallon of Maalox and 3 complete sets of offer-counter causing the need for said Maalox, we now have a fully accepted offer. Closing is September 15th.
I don’t know if I want to become a homeowner again…
vunderbob, congratulations! And let’s all take a moment to be grateful for Maalox! 
vunderbob, that’s great news. I’ll bet Sep 15th can’t come soon enough for you.
So…uh…::::cough:::::did your mother in law spank St. Joseph good enough?
what?
She didn’t spank St. Joe. She did dig him up and rub his nose in the Power of Attorney we gave her to deal with the real estate agent in our absence…
Just about a month away - YAY! Once the dust settles, you know you’ll want your own place. And I just know you’ll search and search to find something uglier than I did just to show me up! 
The place I’m selling was uglier than your’s. I need to dig into the storage unit for the pictures to prove it.
Blue cherubs in the bathroom have nothing on velvet flocked wallpaper. You and FCDad never had to poop in a whorehouse…