Woman Nearly Loses Home After Mortgage Company Mix-Up
NASHVILLE, Tn. – If you’re like a lot of people, you pay your property taxes through your monthly mortgage payment. But a woman who trusted her mortgage company to pay her taxes very nearly lost her house. That company is one of the biggest mortgage providers in Nashville, but it turns out, they didn’t do what they were supposed to. For the last two years, Carla Rubeo has called a condo in Antioch her home. But she very nearly lost it through no fault of her own. "And I want people to know that yes, this can happen to anybody," Rubeo told NewsChannel 5 Investigates. Rubeo said it all started earlier this year when she got a letter from the Davidson County Trustee’s Office, informing her that her 2016 property taxes hadn’t been paid. "I thought it was a hoax," she recalled. After all, she’d paid some each month as part of her mortgage and her mortgage company, SWBC, was paying the tax bill at the end of each year. Or so she thought. "So you called your m...