Prominent Escrow Services

Prominent Escrow owes us reimbursement for interest and fees charged on our unpaid taxes because they filed an incorrect Affidavit of Property Value with the Maricopa County Recorder showing that our prior, former address was where the next property tax bill was to be mailed rather than our new address at the home we were purchasing. Because of the wrong address, we never received in two years any tax notices, delinquent tax notices, or property value notices. We only learned about the problem when filing our income tax returns in February 2016, at which time we had just two business days to come up with $2,246.89 before our newly purchased home would have been placed on the lien sale list. We could have lost our home! Prominent Escrow's employees have refused to return my many calls or reply to my many certified letters. We learned in September 2016, when the County Assessor sent us a copy of the Affidavit of Property Value that was actually recorded and the third version we'd now seen (this version leaving blank the Buyers' signature (ours), signed by Christa *** of Prominent Escrow Services in Dallas, Texas, that it shows that tax bills are to be mailed to Buyer at our prior, former address. Arizona Revised Statute 6-841, Internal Control Structure, states: "A. An escrow agent shall adopt a systematic internal control structure to ensure persons employed by or associated with the escrow agent' business do not make significant errors or perpetuate significant irregularities or fraud without timely detection." "B. For purposes of this section, 'internal control' means the policies and procedures established to provide reasonable assurance that the escrow agent will achieve the following objectives: . . . 3. Reliability in recording of all escrow transactions." The Seller in our real estate transaction chose the out-of-state escrow company. Prominent Escrow's employees failed to fill out the Affidavit of Property Value correctly before recording it. And why didn't they use the one we, as Buyers, filled out and submitted to our Realtor which was correct. And why is there a second Affidavit filled out wrong showing the buyers to be in Orange County, CA with an illegible Buyer's signature (not ours)? And why is there a third Affidavit filled out wrong by *** in Texas? And then Prominent Escrow's employees refused to communicate with me and take responsibility for their mistakes. So I filed suit in Maricopa County Justice Court, Case No. CC2SSN*** and served the Complaint via USPS Certified Mail on Prominent Escrow's Statutory Agent, Ryan ***, which service is legal in this Court. However, Prominent Escrow's employees were able to avoid being served twice, thus my case was dismissed.