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I'm afraid that in the same situation, I would have been petty enough to delay informing the police that I had received my money until the check had cleared. I
by wccrawford 15y ago
I'm afraid that in the same situation, I would have been petty enough to delay informing the police that I had received my money until the check had cleared.
I don't like it about myself, but I sure get angry when corporations throw their weight around, and revenge is really sweet.
- biot 15y agoI would be interested in knowing if the entity being foreclosed upon has the right to terminate the foreclosure by paying immediately. If not, I too would be sorely tempted to say "Sorry, too late for that now" and proceed with the foreclosure, selling off the assets at auction to recover costs.
- bittermang 15y agoFrankly, you haven't received the money until the check has cleared. You would have been well within your right. Not petty at all.
- mixmastamyk 15y agoMaybe it was a cashiers check, which gives you a bit more assurance.
- MarketingMuppet 15y agoNot if issued by Bank of America, crooked liars. Worst institution on earth. Just a bunch of heartless greedy bastards that if society had some balls should be in the stockades.
- illumin8 15y agoIt sounds like from the article this was a compromise negotiated at the last minute by the bank manager with the deputies. Personally, I would have made them carry out the court order to the letter of the law. Fuck 'em.
- shareme 15y agogiving a bouncing check to officer of the court is immediate jail time for bank manager..
- wccrawford 15y agoBeing within my rights and being petty are 2 different things. They sometimes overlap. This is one such case. If I didn't trust the check to clear, I'd have no choice, of course. But since I could foreclose on them AGAIN if the check didn't clear, there's no way they are going to make that mistake. (To be clear, the above is totally hypothetical and I am not involved in this incident at all.)
- MarketingMuppet 15y agoBank of America is a symbol of everything that is wrong with corporate America. The world would be so much of a better place if they could just have disappeared in the financial crisis.
- OstiaAntica 15y agoBank of America isn't really a corporation, it is an extension of the federal government. It is massively subsidized directly and indirectly by Federal Reserve interest rate policy, and was kept alive by several multi-billion dollar Treasury bailout programs starting in 2008. If Bank of America were a real corporation the market would have killed it off a long time ago.