Quote Originally Posted by Lotech View Post
Sad. The banks don't much care though, do they?
I used to work for a bank that touted itself as the "Warm Hearted Bank." If the truth be known, I never met a banker with a warm heart.
Back not quite 43 years ago, a young man recently married and enrolled in the second semester of his junior year in college found out he should have been keeping up witht he checks he had been writing. The president of the local bank loaned him $300 on the good name of his family to be paid back when he graduated from college in 18 months. Unfortunately Mr. George Weeks died several years ago and left no heirs in the business.

I fill sure he has a modern counterpart in a small home bank somewhere, but I haven't seen him myself. The federal regs may keep him from doing things like that now days. Mr. Weeks knew all he had to do was tell my Dad if I didn't pay back the loan and worse than my credit rating would be ruined. My wife has had the checkbook ever since, which is probably why being without a paycheck for the last year has not been a disaster.