CitiFinancial Servicing review: Citifinancial auto breaks the law with reposessions 60

my car was repossed on yesterday. i am financed with citi financial. has anyone had a positive experience with getting your property back after repossession with this particular company?

I have been dealing with Citifinancial since Novemeber 2007. In October 2008 my hours got drastically reduced and by Janurary 2009 I was completely unemployed. I contacted Citifinancial immediately to inform them of my situation so I could make payment arrangements. The account manager I was assigned to was very unpleasant to say the least, nevertheless, she arranged a two month deferment. I felt in these hard economic time I would need more than two months to find employment, but I was told that two months was the longest deferment period Citinfinancial offered. Needless to say, it took me until April to find a permenant job and took till May to see my first pay check. As soon as I started getting paid I made two payments a month to get caught up. Citifinancial harrassed me relentlessly. It was so frustrating and irritating. Then to make matters worse, in June the state did not pass a budget and are not paying the state workers. We were provided with letters to give to our creditors to explain the situation. I faxed the letter to Citifinancial and requested another deferment. At first I was told I was not eligible because there has to be six months between deferments, which was less than two weeks away. After fussing with customer service they agreed to take an application for the deferment. A few days later I was contacted by them and was told I was denied the deferment because I needed to make six consecutive payments before being eligible again. I told them that I was not about to be harrassed by them when I am unable to make payments due to no fault of my own. It's bad enough to have to go to work every day and not get paid and have no idea when I am going to get paid because politicans want to grandstand. I'll be damned if I am going to be harrassed about some car when I don't even know how I am going to feed by kids. So on Monday when they call, I am going to put them on hold and call the governor's office on the three-way and let them explain when I am going to be able to pay. Citifinancial can kiss my a**!

I would seek legal advice because of what the repo guy did. They cannot barge into your home like that. They can come to your door if they want to talk to you and tell you what their there for. In most states, there is such a thing called "Breach of the Peace". Check with your State Attorney General's Office by looking up their website for information on repossesion laws.

Well it seems they have a pattern with their customers! I too have fallen pray to their lies! I am a disabled single mother of 2 and I lost part of my income and asked back in April for a Hard Ship loan adjustment (this is to help lower the interest rate which lowers the payment). I was told that since I made March's payment and was current then I could apply for the hard ship and to fax them my income information, did that. Then after several phone calls to them, I was told no decision was made yet and that I MUST have a fax number for them to send me the documents to sign. I explained that I only have the local library to fax from and that they will not take incoming faxes, so if they would overnight me the papers I would fax them back that day and I would also send the originals overnight to them as well, all at my expense. Well May came around, still calling them and no decision made yet and finally a manager did tell me they needed more information, expense break down, so I gave her the information and even faxed everything to them again so my bases where covered. The manager also told me, during that call, that they wanted to defer 2 payments so my loan would still show current while they were making their decision. I waited a few days and called them again for their decision. Again they told me I MUST have a fax number and again I explained the whole fax thing and was told she would note it on the account so the documents would be sent overnight. Now several calls have been made to them and no one knows anything so I've left several voice mail messages left for supervisers who never call me back and I still do not have an answer. Well today though they called to ask for my payment for June, which I didn't pay yet and was a few days late so they would have to call me. After I explained the past few months to the man on the phone, I asked to speak to a manager. Now once the manager got on the phone I again went through the whole story: April - asked for a hard ship loan adjustment & faxed information; May - manager finally tells me they need expense information & that she deferred 2 months in payments; June - no one will tell me anything. Well the pot thickens when this manager processed to tell me that they denied my hard ship request because I asked for the 2mth deferment on payments, it canceled out my hard ship request; I can't do both. ARE THEY SERIOUS! First of all I Never asked them to defer the payments (they made that call), like my lost of income would be better in a few months, I asked for the hard ship loan because my income was lower and wasn't going to go back up! Secondly that would be really stupid of me to do that knowing it would cancel out my request for what I desperately needed! So after almost 2hrs of arguing with them on the phone I am told that if I make Junes payment and they will put in another request for me but that I probably wont get it and should really wait 6-7mths and try again! Now after 3mths of being lied to and they deferred my payments without my requesting it, I am screwed! I will NEVER do business with them again, NEVER recommend them again, and I will NEVER let this matter come to an end and will contact whoever I need to regarding their very poor business practises!

The same thing is happening to me. I belive they are coming for my car. they said they will work with me and have plans for the situation. Ive made a payment a week ago. it still hasnt showed on my online statement. since then theyve called for another partial, I said that amkes me current right, yes. But they have only took 0ne dollar and one cent out of my account? so far. I belive they are plaining to get what they can and come for the car, even though im current now. someone parked in my driveway the other afternoon. I went out couldnt find the person went back in and someone jumped back in their car and left. I think repo guy is checking it out but not to until they get what they can from me. qualityalarmspec@gmail.com

Talking about rip off's? HA I got you one better! I've had my car loan with them for 4 years now, never been late on a payment until FEBRUARY! I make my payments through my online banking, in February I made a payment of 420. I started getting late notices, so I called, they claimed I didn't make the payment, 2 weeks I made another payment, I thought was March payment, 3 weeks later that money was redeposited into my bank account, I called them the next day told them what had happend and needed to know why? I made the payment again, well needless to say that payment came back as well, for 3 months I have proof that my car payment was made and put back into my account? I've called, talked to customer support which blows big time, asked to speak to managers, faxed bank statements, and I still don't have it corrected yet? Got a call yesterday that they were going to repo my truck since I was behind, I told them that if they did they could expect legal recourse for it. Until I get to speak to a manager to find out what happend to my February payment and why my payments kept getting redeposited into my account they better not send anyone to set foot on my property for any reason. A rep from my bank has even tried to get things straightened out and they won't even talk to her. I have one year left on my car, and it's still in excellent shape with low miles! I will NEVER finance anything with them again after this. Oh and yea by the way, when you set up your account to pay through your bank like I do, keep a check on the address that's on your statement, they change collection company's without notifiying you of it... we think this maybe one possible problem but I still can't get them to accept a payment, wheather it be by phone, online bank or mailing a check.

I called them last month before my payment was due and asked for an amendment because my income was reduced due to the economy. No problem, did the faxes twice, did the over the phone evaluation and was told I qualified. Well, its a month later now and after being given the run around I'm now told they do not do the amendments if your late. Well, I wouldn't have been late had they not kept telling me to call back, fax the paper work again. My interest is 14.9 and I was also told I could reduce it after a few months of on the time payments. When the time came to take them up on their offer, I was told they don't refinance on their customers loans. Seriously, this is ridiculous! I'm not asking to get out of paying for the car, I'm just asking for a reasonable interest rate. I mean after all, didn't we Americans just foot the bill for bailing them out? Don't we deserve a break in our interest rates in return! Yes, I do believe we do!

I purchase a Jeep through Citifinancial Auto 2 years ago. The initial payment of $733 was steep and we immediately got an amendment to lower it. Fine. Last year my wife lost her job and half our income. I asked this company to help us get another amendment to lower it a little more. What should they care; it's our only car; we are going to be paying it until it's finished anyway. I was told that I needed to make 3 consecutive payments then they would lower it for 6 months. Great! My insurance agent somehow let my insurance lapse and Citi was quick to send a piece of paper stating they had added their insurance to the monthly payment because of this. Huh? So now I have to pay the car payment, my insurance, and their insurance. A fight with my insurance people resulted in me leaving them. My wife is still looking for a job to supplement my income to manage the bills. Citi called and demanded payment at my job! The car is 3 months late, but I agreed to pay them $545 at the end of this month. Nope not good enough, they demanded 781.00 plus the $14.00 check over the phone fee. In the beginning did I not say my wife had lost her job? These people don't give a crap about their customers and they make promises over the phone that aren't true. It's just talk. When this is over, whether by repo or refinancing, I'm NEVER GOING TO BUY A CAR THROUGH CITIFINANCIAL AGAIN!

Has anyone contacted their Attorney General? I am trying to fight them as well, there verbal and written communication on payments are never the same. My car was take in October (3 years into making basically perfect payments). They will call you over and over, but don't have records of you calling. I left messages in which they state they do not have voicemail, I have phone records but they state they never talked to me. So, I was talking to someone each time. They give you the run around and no one has the same information. Now they are threatening to send me to collections on a letter they even admit they just sent out and that's why I haven't received it, they sold my car and supposely now own them $10, 000 which with that amount I think they back dated the loan and gave my car away for free. This company is ridiculous and I find thousands and thousands of complaints, but I think people should start writing their Attorney General as well as posting them to various websites.

MY HUSBAND GOT ME A TRUCK FOR MY BIRTHDAY 3 YEARS AGO BACK IN JANUARY HE HURT IS FOOT AND HAD TO HAVE SURGERY DONE ON IT SO WE GOT 2 MOUTH BEHIND ONTHE PAYMENTS TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT BECAUSE MY HUSBAND WAS OUT OF WORK BECAUSE OF HIS FOOT AND WOULD NOT GO BACK TO WORK TILL JUNE 1 THEY SAID THAT IF I WOULD COME UP WITH ONE PAYMENT THEY WOULD LOWER MY PAYMENT SO I DID THAT BUT THEY DIDNT DO WHAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO AND BACK IN MARCH I MADE A PAYMENT AND THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO A AMENDMENT AND CUT MY PAYMENT IN HALF BUT AFTER RECIVEING PAYMENT WE DID NOT QUILFY FOR IT .BUT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO AGAIN IF WE MADE PAYMENT AT THE MOMONT THEY ARE DEMANDING FULL PAYMENT AFTER I OFFERED THEM A HALF PAYMENT. NOW I HAVE ON CHOICE .BECAUSE OF FINANCIAL PROBLEMS .TO LET THEM REPO IT AFTER HARASSING MYAND HUSBANDS FAMILY AND ALONG WITH CONTRACTS THAT DIFFER IN PERCENTAGE RATE IN WHICH WE FAXED ARE COPY TO THEM AND THEY REFUSED TO SEND US THERE COPY NOT ONCE BUT 3 TIMES AND OUT OF MANY HAND FULLS OF THERE REPS.ONLY ONE TRIED TO WORK WITH US BUT WAS SHOT DOWN BY A SUPERVISER

My husband purchased a used car in 2003. With a bankruptcy in our past, the only financing we were able to get was through citifinacial at an intrest rate of 19.99%. When we agreed it was explained to us that if we paid on time for a year we could get the loan refinanced at a lower rate since we whould have established credit with them. At the time that made perfect sense to me. After one year I contacted Citifinancial and was told they do not refinance loans. We continued to pay our payment on time each month for the next 6 years. We are now within two months of paying it off. My husband lost his job in 2006. Even though we were struggling financially we continued to pay every payment on time. My husband started working at a job in 2008 that paid less than half of what he was making before. We still continued to get those payments in on time. Last December he was laid off and didn't go back to work until April of this year. In March I could see that our payment was going to be late. For the first time in 6 years I was not going to make it on time. I called Citifinancial and spoke with a representative. She was very friendly and listened to my story. I told her when the payment would be made, I told her why it was going to be late, and I explained that we were going to do everything we could to bring it back current and pay it off on time. She assured me that she would make the notation on the account and that it would be no problem as long as we showed the effort to continue to pay the loan. When I got off the phone I felt like I did the right thing, and I felt I was treated with respect. The next month I was again going to be late with the payment. One day after the payment was due the phone began to ring. I answered the first time and the representative would not speak to me because the loan is in my husbands name. I told him that I had spoken with someone on this account before with no problem. I do understand that they have the policy of not speaking to someone that is not authorized on the account. I tried to tell him that the payment would be late, but it would be paid soon. He was rude, he was in my opinion very disrespectful to me. It seems odd to me that I had no problem talking to someone when the account was current, but after it became late they would not speak to me. After that day our phone has rung every hour from 8am until 10pm 7 days a week. I have answered it a few times and tried to explain that my husband does not talk on the phone. I called customer service again today and was told that they would not discuss anything with me. I spoke with a supervisor that insisted that my husband would have to call them. I again tried to tell them that my husband does not talk on a phone. All I was trying to do was to tell them when the payment would be there. Which by the way is only one payment that is two weeks late, and was on the way to them now. I wanted them to stop the phone calls. We have only two more payments on this 6 year loan. We have been a good customer for 6 years and have paid more than three times what the car was worth. Enough is enough. I will never deal with Citifinacial again and I hope to stop others from doing so also. I know that our Sears account also goes through Citibank. We have never defaulted on that account, but I will be closing that account. I will not continue to do business with a company that has no respect for a good customer.
I know in these hard economic times that people will be struggling to get by. I hope if anyone sees this post that has a loan or a credit card through Citibank that they will transfer those accounts to another bank before they get behind. Citibank is the worst bank I've ever delt with. I will not deal with this company again.

I too have had an awful time with citifinacial. They have called me for months now. I havne't had a job in over a year and I explained all of that to them. I told them to come get my car, I offered to bring it to them... however they keep telling me that they don't repo cars they just send my info to the legal dept. I just got off the phone with one of them... I couldn't understand her name... and she got real nasty with me. I told her if they dont want my car fine I'll sell it to the junk yard I really don't care anymore. But there is NO WAY that I can afford my payments. I have 3 kids and no job... I am barely making it now... the car is my last worry. Bring on the legal dept... because I don't give a $h**!

I have a car loan through citifinancial at this time and I too am behind on payments but it is because of them. They let me defer my payments for 3 months and during the 3 months I faxed them all kinds of paper work that they asked for in order to get my $567 payment on my Nissan lowered. When it came time to make a payment the amount was $733, I called them and had multiple complications getting through to them, I told them I can't do $733 they said it would just be temporary and I told them I can't do it, they said well if you don't we will just make arrangements to come get the car, I told them fine, you want me to bring it to you? Then they said well your account manager isn't in, I will have him call you tomorrow and you two can work out the details. Well he never called and I never could get a hold of him, then 3 days later my aunt called me and told me citifinancial auto did an automatic draft from her bank account in the amount of $733 and the bank let it go through. Now since then they won't send the money back and my aunt's bank is having to start proceedings against them and now I am a month behind on payments. They said that I had that bank account on my car account and that is not true, I used her bank account one time to make a check by phone payment and she was right there and they talked to her and she okayed it. These people are ###. Anyone who has replied to you in a negative manner has evidently never dealt with these idiots. I will never, never again use citifinancial auto for anything. I am preparing to file bankruptcy as we speak because there is no telling what kind of charges they will put on me after they repossess it.

Now they are raising interest rates in the amount of 18-24%. The way the economy is now they are really taking advantage of the consumer. If anyone hears of any lawsuits please reply, I will be one of the first on the list.

i have a loan through citi and i will say they are hands down the worst company i have ever had to deal with, rude people and none of them have brains.i tell people EVERYDAY to stay away from them .i really hope all the workers at citit lose their jobs, and the company close's very soon.and then banks will start hiring people that really care about PEOPLE! i almost forgot STAY AWAY FROM citi THEY ARE EVIL !

I opened an account January 9, 2008, for a 12-month, no interest fee. I called the beginning of January (Jan. 7 ) and talked to a customer representative and paid my balance in full. I was told I had NO interest on the account. On Feb. 27, I was called and told that I had a balance of $47, which quickly escalated to $247. After an hour on the phone, I was told I had been given a forgiveness on the account, that my balance was $0, and that my account would be closed at my request. On March 9, I was called again and told my balance was $47, which then escalated to $267. Both the customer representative and account manager (Yvette) told me that I had been told incorrectly by the previous 2 customer representatives and account mananger and that I must pay the remaining balance. When I explained that I had been told that I had a zero balance, the account manager then preceded to tell me that I was "having a dispute with myself." The account manager preceded to tell me I could call and talk to someone in the Dispute Department but would only give me a fax number. When I asked for a phone number to talk to a HUMAN of all things, I was told that they dont have a number and dont talk to customers. THIS BILL WAS PAID IN FULL BUT SUPPOSEDLY 2 CUSTOMER REPRESENTATIVES AND 1 ACCOUNT MANAGER HAVE TOLD ME INCORRECTLY AND IT'S MY FAULT. WILL NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH COMPANY AGAIN. No wonder they are having financial troubles. Who would want to do business with them.

I just had my car repo'd by citifinancial. I was behind on payments, but have 3 yearss of payments into the car. The people who work for citifinancial have called me during the day when I'm at work. When I tell them I am in the middle of teaching a class, they insist I not hang up until I tell them how I'm going to pay for the car. The times this has happened I've had to beg to let me call them after I get off of work. Then when I do get off work, I can't get through. The line is either a busy signal when I call, or I get transfered and then disconnected. After my car was unexpectedly towed form the school where I teach, It took me four hours of constant calling to finally get ahold of a human voice! Then, only to hear the person on the other line tell me that the car is now handled by their collections dept. and there was nothing they could do. I told them I could pay the money due, and they simply said "sorry, you have to call collections!" The supervisor in collections told me that I would have to pay $19, 000 to get my car back. It isn't even worth that much! Anyone have any advise? I have until Feb 14 to pay off the car or they keep it. Can they really do this, even after I offered to pay the money due to them? Somebody please give me some direction! I'm a single mom with three kids - one in college. If you'd like, you can call me: [protected]. I really need some good advise!

Someone very close to me in the state of Georgia has had a similar experience with Citifinancial. They are scumm bags ! She was late on her payments and they made arrangements with her to pay almost half of the monthly payment per month. However, into about the third month of the agreement they reposessed the car on the same date that the payment was to be made even though they accept payments over the phone. Needless to say when she found her car missing she did not make a payment that day. However, when she called they told her she needed to pay the $500.00 reposession fee as well as over $1000.00. That is not legal in my opinion since the car should not have been reposessed in the first place since they had an agreement. Also I believe that in the state of Georgia a ten day warning notice is to be sent prior to the repossession of a car. Of course Citfinancial would not bogg themselves down with such tedious activities as warning notices.

You have to be able to demonstate the ability to repay the loan. A lender wouldn't loan you money if you weren't employed and by reinstating the loan by redeeming they would require you to demonstate you could continue in the loan with timely payments.

Yes, technically they can consider you to be in default if you have no job and no prospects. It all depends on what language is in the contract you signed. Take a look at this sample document that's on CitiFinancial's site:

https://loans.citifinancialauto.com/images/pkg_page_5.gif

Read the paragraph at the bottom of the page, titled DEFAULT, and note condition 4:

"(4) the prospect of payment, performance or realization of collateral is significantly impared"

Also, see condition 1. Miss a payment, you're in default--it's that simple. Now, I know that bad things happen to people, and I think lenders should be a lot more flexible and understanding in working out payment arrangements. But if you lost your job and can't afford a $588 monthly payment anymore, you should have considered selling the car and buying something more affordable.