Comedy of errors

[jdurand]

Almost forgot the other shoe...

So, we sent part of the house money to our overseas account. The wire left our account here with no problem.

Then got paused in transit. Not unexpected question of where did you get this much money.

I sent them the required bank statement showing the wire deposit.

Not good enough, the statement must show who and why the transfer was from. My bank said that's all they print on statements, sorry.

I sent a page from the sale contract from escrow showing the wire amount.

Not good enough. "Your house sold for" and they gave a number WAY wrong, by half a million! "Where's the rest of the money?"

I resisted telling them it was none of their business where the rest is. I did, however, suggest that a financial person read more carefully, a half million dollar error is not something they should do.

I then sent them the entire sale contract and asked if they needed to know the buyer's children's middle names too?

They unfroze the transfer.