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What a terrible service

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Used their mortgage service if that is what you call it and it was awful. Where do I start? 1. I had to repeat all my information via telephone during the application process because my details were not added to my application- other than my name and telephone number. 2. The valuation took place on the 23rd of October and was rejected, but Virgin seemed to instruct the solicitor to get on with the paperwork anyway. Thank God they were paying for them! 3. I was only told that my application had been refused when I called them on the 19th November when a. The first call I made, Adam kept me on hold for 8 minutes or so while he checked…he cut me off. b. The second advisor left me on hold for about 8 minutes to check and then came back to say it was rejected (Lets call this person advisor 1). The following is a summary of what happened next. 4. Advisor 1 said that she was informed that an agent 'apparently called' me on the 1st November but no message was left and no attempt to call me again was ever made. Thank God I called on the 19th November, otherwise I would never have known. 5. Advisor 1 said that she was informed that an agent emailed me on the 1st October, but then they retracted that statement, when I asked for this email to be resent / details of the sender, so I could search for the email. 6. When asked why my application was refused- Advisor 1 said that she was initially told that it was because it was an ex-local authority property- I have a lease of 989 years and the house has been with the same family it was built by who own the freehold. The Solicitor (appointed by Virgin as part of their free service with this mortgage) was also aware of this as they contacted me on the 15th November to confirm who the registered interests according to Land Registry were. 7. I challenged the above and pointed to the evidence that a competent valuer would have access to, such as land registry information to see that the local authority was not registered as the freeholder / local authorities do not offer 1000 (one thousand) year leases. The customer advisor (advisor 1) put me on hold and checked… 8. But her colleague (advisor 2) answered and I had to start the whole conversation again. 9. The customer advisor (advisor 2) checked again…20 minutes later, she claimed to have read the report and no mention of it being ex-Local Authority. So where that did information come from? I enquired – ‘not sure’, ‘she got the information wrong’, ‘she didn’t have access to the report’ was all I got. 10. I was also informed that my property was rejected because it was accessed via external stairs and this is not accepted in their policy. I was very clear in my description of the property when making the application and the initial advisor who I spoke with to check that I could apply, said that he checked it using Google Maps and it seemed fine. Reviewed on: 19th November 2018
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Reply from Hello, thanks for getting in touch. I'd like to step in to investigate this further. Please email your name, address and contact number over to [email protected] and I'll pick it up from there. Thanks, Lindsay Response date: 22nd November 2018