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One of my friends made a comment on facebook today about Bank of America and while I totally agree with her ,it reminded me of a story that I must share with you. Before moving back to Colorado permanently, my husband and I had to return to Texas without our children to pack up our life there and bring it back here. This whole process was, well to say the least, probably the most stressful two weeks of my life. First off, I missed my kids like mad, even though there was no way we could have gotten everything done with them there. Second, we had two properties there including the one we were living in that needed renters. Third, we had a property management business consisting of 75 doors that needed to be handed off for good. Last but not least, pack all of our crap into a huge truck which always sucks!!

Now I feel it very important to mention my husband and I had been doing a lot of praying during this whole process. I talked to god a lot! Everything was just so completely up in the air the moment we stepped off the plane back into Texas, we needed all the guidance we could get. On this particular day my hubby and I where on our way to Bank of America with two very large checks in hand that need to be deposited. While in the drive up teller line Nels, my husband, set the deposit slip with the two very large summed checks on the metal tray for retrieval. We waited, as the teller on the other side of the glass stood talking to a coworker not paying attention one bit when all of a sudden a gust of wind blew a random recipet into our car. Nels looked into the tray only to find the checks missing and the girl on the other side of the glass looking at him like “hello, aren’t you gonna put your deposit in the tray”? So of course all hell broke loose, we were now missing a three thousand dollar check and a seven thousand dollar check that belonged to two of our properties owners. We immediately pulled into a parking spot and started scouring the parking lot for these two checks with no luck. Now the whole time we had been dealing with Bank of America prior to this experience had not been good. Long lines, horrible customer service, the list goes on. So when I suugested we go inside and talk to the branch manager, Nels snapped back some not so pretty words about BOA and that it would just be a waste of time. So while I continued to look in the parking lot I found someone’s ATM card on the ground. I picked it up, looked at it and thought, “I need to take this inside”. So I went inside, immediately grabbed a branch manager told him what happened, gave him the card and asked him if BOA would take responsibility for the fee of stop payments we would have to put on these two checks. He said “well actually someone just came in a few seconds before you and said he found a loose check in the parking lot, let me see if it’s yours”. Luckily it was!!!! While the branch manager was dealing with our teller I turned to go back outside but was met by husband. He was astonished to see the check and even more astonished because he had found the other one but it was in the drainage gutter and needed something to retrieve it with. So we asked the manager to look for something for us and then poof!

Sidebar—- One of the benefits of being a landlord is when people ditch out, you are sometimes left with some really cool stuff.  Just prior to taking our bank trip that day we had emptied out a deserted apartment and found two perfectly good fishing poles that just so happened to be in our truck. Yes, you guessed it, I said “the fishing poles”!!!

So we both ran outside, grabbed a fishing pole and …. went fishing. I asked Nels, “how the hell did you find it down here in the gutter”? While he was fishing, he looked up at me and told me, “I just stopped for a second and said a prayer, I asked god to help me find this check, then something told me to go check the gutter and there it was just about to be washed away” and viola, he hooked the dirty, wet, stinky $7,000 check! We took it back inside and pretty much told the bank manager, “there you go bro, you can deposit this check now”, with the biggest smiles on our faces. After we all had a good laugh, the two checks were deposited. Nels and I were besides ourselves with disbelief. We just kept on looking at each other saying, “was that for real”??? So as you see… Miracles do happen, luckily with no blood in this case but LOTS of sweat and LOTS of faith.