"That's silly," was the response from Bliz, when I told her what I had to do to avoid spending $11.95 per month in fees for one of our bank accounts. And, yes, the end result was silly.
You see, my bank has started charging business accounts this fee if they don't keep a minimum balance or pay three bills out of the account every month. For my other business accounts, it isn't a problem. For the account for the LLC we have with Jack, it is not going to happen. We have one house. We pay one mortgage every month (when the AC goes out or there is a minor snake infestation maybe another bill or two). That's the extent of it.
When I told Marty Sunshine of this, he said a lot of non-sunshiney type things and threatened to close shop at this bank. However, this bank has two things going for it. One: it has locations in Alabama and Arizona. And two: it has lower fees than other banks with locations in both places (are you listening Well's Fargo and Bank of America???).
My favorite bank manager, Jenny, who is now on her third branch since we met, helped me out by opening up a personal checking account. This simple little change should eliminate these fees.
Of course, I won't get all the additional business perks like.... um.... oh yea! like free cashier's checks (which I have never used). I will also have the added benefit of trying to explain to Jack--who is a signer on the old account--that he can be a signer on the new account by jumping through an amazing number of hoops.
Hopefully he won't think the whole thing is very silly.
And as a public service announcement:
I would like to point out if you are looking to rent a moving truck, and you opt to be totally nasty to the moving truck employee on the phone--who, by the way, is holding your entire future in your hands--you might end up being transferred to the wrong number or to a location where the employee is totally aware that particlar location is closed for the day.
The only reason you are transferred to one of the above locations, dear nasty customer who wants a moving truck and decides to call the employee trying to help you a "half-wit minimum wage grunt" is because the phone line at the location in the far reaches of hell is busy. I'm just saying...
Not that I would do something so unprofessional. But there are others who might.
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Minimum wage grunt?? LOL I was snippy once to a U-Haul phone person. To my credit it was because my phone person was a total idiot and moron (was that duplicitous?) I ordered a 24' truck but when I got to the location (5 minutes before they closed for the weekend) my phone person had typed in the wrong size and I was stuck moving from Tennessee to Alabama in a 16' truck. Guess how many trips that took??
You must have the wrong company. Uhaul doesn't have 16' trucks and their 24' trucks don't go out of town. Pehaps you were snippy to one of their competitors?
Please insert my standard comment about your Karma here.
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