Oh, and BTW, WAMU failed today. The largest bank failure in US history.

Anyone know anything about Chase Bank? Am I going to be happy with them? I was planning on opening a joint account with my wife at Wells anyway since she works there (team member checking can be mine!) but if it looks like Chase won’t suck I will keep my with Chase.

She officially came out as a lesbian and men of the world, in their distraught state over losing their chance with her, made a run on WaMu branches all over the country to pool enough money together to bribe her to come back to hetero-land. Then WaMu failed.

Now I know you’re just joshing me here. They were withdrawing the money to entice her to get a better looking girlfriend, and then let them watch.

Pretty much my question as well. Specifically, I wonder about the feature that waives the WaMu fee for withdrawals from non-WaMu ATMs. Based on what I can tell from the Chase website, an account with the same feature requires a $15,000 balance.

What’s ironic is this: the mortgage on my house was in my mother’s name, she’s been dead two years, I’ve been making the payments and there’s never been a late one, but they started giving me hell a year ago about how it has to be in my name. Ironically I have problem credit (I say ironically because I have almost no debt now but there were some problems years ago when I had way too much credit) and couldn’t assume the loan on my own, so I had to go with another bank, so mine is one of the “good mortgages” yet one they were threatening to call due.

As I mentioned in another thread, Bill Kristol claims more banks are about to fail, possibly plunging us into Depression.

The day before they folded, I received a letter from WaMu advising me that they were canceling my credit card and that they would be issuing me a new one with the same number. I wonder if they have already mailed the new card and if not, I guess they won’t. I had been paying off a $5k bill at zero % promotional APR for 6 months and did pay it off in July when the promo rate went up to 11.5%. I assume they were going to raise the APR again with the new card. I already have two with Chase.