Brown Girl in London

Adventures in banking

Today we tried to open bank accounts. We knew we needed something with our names and addresses on it so HD and I waited until our tenancy agreement arrived in the mail. Because that would seem to make sense, bringing in the actual agreement that states we are living at this address.

But no, apparently that's not good enough. We went into 3 different banks and were rejected 3 different times. Barclays, NatWest, and HSBC all want us to bring in utility bills with our names on it. That should be okay it's just we don't know when those are going to arrive. When we called to change the names over to ours for the gas, water, and electric, the people we spoke to said they're billed quarterly.

Anyway, hopefully a job will materialize soon and on my pay cheque it will have my London address - the banks might accept that also. In the meantime I've got my money in my shoe!

posted by RC @ 12:04 PM