03.30.03
Next weekend I will be in Chicagoland seeking shelter and banking goodness.
I've looked online for information about various apartment places, and have compiled a list of potentials. Two seem more promising than others, but having spoken to someone at my first pick, I'm not so sure they'd want me.
Apparently, before you can even look at an apartment, you have to get a credit check, and according to Jennifer, the woman in charge of renting, the management company is very particular about their renters. She said, and I quote, "They're pretty much only looking for people with perfect credit."
Okay, I have good credit. Not perfect, but good. It used to be very very bad, back in the bell jar days. But I paid off all of my debts, and have wisely used my powers of credit since, buying a car and paying it off in less than half of the term of the loan, never missing payments on other credit obligations, etc.
Of course my second choice of housing will want me, should the first choose to be too exclusive for yours truly.
And I'm considering whether or not to get DSL or Cable Modem. I prefer DSL, but that requires me to have a land-line that costs at least $30/month, and I'm perfectly content just using my cell phone for telephonic purposes. Cable modem and regular extended basic non-digital cable should be less than DSL, landline, and regular extended basic non-digital cable all together. Unless there's something going on out there that I don't fully understand, utilitywise.
The only other question is which bank deserves my business most.
The contenders are currently ranked in the following descending orderL Bank Financial, Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, Bank One, MB Financial Bank, Lasalle Bank, North Community Bank, Harris Bank, U.S. Bank, and First American Bank. In that order.
None of them are as wonderful as Hills Bank & Trust, true, but something has to be close enough to please me.
If anyone has suggestions, I'm open to those...
What's in your head?