This business can really pull things together in a pinch and provide personalized service where I…read moredon't think larger chain banks and lenders would be able to. I have been a Colonial customer for years due in no small part to the fact that they service their own mortgages so your loan won't be sold around in investment packages constantly with you not knowing who owns the note to your home from year to year. They have been consistent with my escrow account to where adjustments were not needed as well. My main reason for this review though is that we just closed on buying a new home and used Colonial again. Things were getting shaky as to whether we were going to close on our home on time and we felt like our home deal might fall through if our closing got delayed. I contacted the company vice president John Farrell and things started flying faster than could ever have been expected by my wife and I. After a few whirlwind days we ended up closing on time and are very excited to be moving into our dream home. I don't think that if we were doing business with one of the "Too Big to Fail" banks that we could have received this kind of assistance and we would definitely recommend going with Colonial for anyone's mortgage needs.

I cannot say enough good things about Pat Hartis - my loan officer at Colonial Mortgage. Although…read moreI live in Austin, I called the main # and was lucky enough to be connected to Pat. I had been in process of refinancing my house with another lender, but it wasn't working out as expected and taking too long, so I cancelled that loan. I was a Colonial customer - had my current mortgage with them, but my earlier experience with the loan officer assigned to me in an Austin office left a lot to be desired. I'm glad I took a chance and called the main # in Fort Worth. Pat took all the info over the phone, locked in my rate that day, had the papers sent to my home that week. She set up the closing at the nearest Colonial location to my office, where Susan Mills (the title agent) did a great job of completing all the paperwork with me over my lunch hour. The entire process, from the first phone call to the closing, took 24 days. Everything went so smoothly, and I attribute that to Pat's expertise and knowledge. I have been through several home mortgages and refinances with other properties in the past, and this was the absolute best experience I have had to date. No matter where you live in Texas, if you need a loan officer, I would recommend giving Pat a call - you can find her phone # on the Colonial Mortgage website. All loan officers are not "created equal" - Pat is exceptional!!!

Stay as far away from these con artists as you can. My wife…read moreand I decided to purchase a house. Long backstory summed up: we owned a fixer upper that we grew tired of fixing. Our family was getting bigger than the house could reasonably accommodate. We contacted movement mortgage about obtaining a loan. We provided every bit of information they requested, well before we decided to put a loan application in. After extensively answering questions about credit history, employment history, our favorite colors...you get the point, we were told by our mortgage loan officer, Shea Patton, that we had a good chance of approval. My wife and I decided to go through with the application. We received (in email) a TBD approved letter. We didn't know what that meant at the time, so we looked it up and asked some of our banker contacts. Apparently, a TBD approval was the best approval we could get. Our Movement Mortgage (MM) loan officer, Shea Patton (MLO) told us the underwriting had already looked over the file and approved it. Now, it is important to say that my wife and I had never been through bank lending before. Our current home was an owner finance situation. One condition of our loan was that we had to sell our house...which we did. The proceeds of that sale went from one title company to the next. We we're scheduled to close two days after we sold our current home. Less than 24 hours before we were to sign paperwork on our new home, we received a call from our MLO stating that underwriting wasn't going to approve our loan. Mind you, this was after the close of the business day...so our proceeds from the sale of our home we're locked up in escrow until the following day. We had no place to go. We didn't have any contingency plan because our MLO personally guaranteed our approval to our real estate agent, the listing agent, us, and the sellers of the house. Needless to say, we were homeless with no where to go. We couldn't even get a room to rent for the night. Due to MM's negligence, we we're out over $5000 in unnecessary expenses. Our four children were without a home for a week. What did MM do to correct their error? Not a damned thing. "Why don't you sue?" The amount of money and time it would take to recoup our losses wouldn't justify the process. So...STAY AWAY FROM MOVEMENT MORTGAGE.

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This company aggressively pursues your business, and they will tell you things are going well…read more They had turned me down for an equity loan and then called me again with assurances it would go fine. After several more days and lots of work, they rejected me again. This is with a 780 credit score and no debt, and stringing me along with nothing but "assurances" things should go fine. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY.

I applied for a home with another company and mortgage lender. This company seen my information…read moreonline and has been trying to contact me. That's not how you do business. If I wanted your business I would have asked for it. You shouldn't call random numbers you see online after they apply for home with another company. Terrible company procedures! Get lost

My husband and I wanted to post our experience but just now found the Yelp listing for them…read more We have used Churchill Mortgage for two separate transactions, both new conventional loans, six months apart. The first transaction we had enough of a decent experience we wanted to use them to buy our "dream home". The second time we used them, it was a fiasco that almost lost us that home. I was able to avoid the deal falling through by locating and distributing our retirement funds with significant tax consequences. We were simply not supported in the buy. No one was focused on getting us through. My real estate agent was very frustrated and asked us to not use them again. We won't. It was much too stressful!

Decent location and friendly staff. One complaint, and the…read morereason for 4 stars:: I had to bring in some mortgage paperwork--we were there when they opened at 0900--but what their hours don't tell you is that mortgage officers don't get there until at least 0930. Because, well... bankers. Why should they have to accommodate people with jobs?

We went in to do a wire transfer to one of our suppliers out of county and they were more than…read morehelpful. It wasn't a fast process, not sure why, we did sit for 45 minutes as it appeared the lady was doing our paperwork as well as close of day paperwork. I'd expected this process to be maybe 20 minutes, not almost an hour. Location is easy to access, fairly new, it's by NAS Fort Worth, lots of military around there. The service we received was decent, but slowed. The cost of the transfer was $5 more than our other banks, but they were the only ones that could do it after 4 pm. We got it done, took a while, but it was completed and we left happy we didn't have to travel around with so much cash in our bag.

Short version: Colonial Mortgage, Property loss department…read moresent me a check that bounced. Deposited it into my bank which was returned along with associated returned check fees. Property loss department finally admitted to the error and sent me a corrected check that was valid. But refuses to reimburse me for the returned check fees. Recognizes the fee, understands the fee, agrees that the fee was due to errors made by them but refuses to reimburse or help me to understand why. I've talked to 14 staff members including supervisors and managers. I've logged over 11 hours of phone time concerning this issue.

My payment goes up 3 times in past 4 months, from $25 to $45. They say it's taxes, My taxes…read morechanged be $13 a month not $45. They act like they do no wrong . what a rip off.

The nicest branch ever by miles! I don't normally handle my businesses in branches. But if in need…read moreof it I usually go to downtown. And unfortunately they are not the most caring of friendly in my opinion. So today had to handle a very important situation. I decided to try this branch and see if there was any difference in the bank's customer service. And absolutely yes! Not one but three ppl approached me to help me resolve my problem. I don't really like banks. But I can see myself visiting this one with some frequency. Thanks y'all!