{"id":30,"date":"2005-07-12T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/building.wordpress.com\/2005\/07\/12\/next-in-line-to-screw-up-the-bank\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T17:39:10","slug":"next-in-line-to-screw-up-the-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Next in line to screw up: the bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that being asked by the mortgage brokers assistant if I would mind closing early is a good sign that things had been moving along to the point of completion.<\/p>\n<p>One would also be lead to believe that being told multiple times that everything is in order and ready to go would assure me that putting down an additional $600 to extend a rate lock is a good move.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You might even say that after so much reassurance closing would be a sure thing to happen on time, unless you&#8217;re dealing with swamped Chase employees. I can almost hear the droid in their mortgage broker training video saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Step 1, Assure the customer that we are working our hardest for them.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2, Proceed to duct Tape their application and all required information under a taxi seat and review when all documents have been recovered from the taxi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point, I firmly believe that I cut the other bank I was working with off too early and kicking myself for not having a backup source of funds. If this deal does fall through, I hope that at the very least I can leverage emailed correspondence into getting the majority of the fees paid returned to me just before I file a complaint with the BBB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that being asked by the mortgage brokers assistant if I would mind closing early is a good sign that things had been moving along to the point of completion.<br \/>\nOne would also be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smalltimelandlord.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}