{"id":14534,"date":"2012-05-09T17:11:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T21:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=14534"},"modified":"2016-09-18T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T08:21:14","slug":"managed-to-reach-bmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/managed-to-reach-bmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Managed to Reach BMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dug through my computer and found enough to call BMO this afternoon. Friday just felt too far away. The first number I tried was the wrong one, but the helpful lady gave me the correct number.<\/p>\n<p>The correct number was answered by an English-speaking computer. WHAT?! I&#8217;m not used to dealing with this stuff in English, so I pressed two for French and got an Anglo with a really thick accent. HUH?! It has always been my experience that Anglos are lucky to get a French person who can muddle by in English with an almost incomprehensible accent when they call anything that&#8217;s remotely official in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have my loan account number, but I was found through my name (it helps to be the only person on the planet with your name) and then I breezed through the security questions.<\/p>\n<p>The loan balance was just about where I expected it to be, $4,200. I have a payment over the weekend which may affect the balance unless BMO does a stop payment once they&#8217;ve heard from the insurance company. I don&#8217;t mind if that payment goes through because it will eventually come back to me, but it would be nice if it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Before we got down to the business, the guy told me he was sorry to hear about the accident and was I okay? Yes, thank you, but I&#8217;m pissed off that my nearly paid off car is totaled. He gave me the balance and said he hoped that the insurance payout would cover it. &#8220;Yup. And I&#8217;ll still have more than $7,000 in my pocket by the time the moron&#8217;s insurance pays me back my deductible.&#8221; His reply was, &#8220;How did you pull that off?!&#8221; Apparently, they get a lot of people who have their car totaled and the insurance payment doesn&#8217;t cover the loan. It would suck to have to make payments on a car that&#8217;s been totaled!<\/p>\n<p>So, now I just have to wait for my total loss adjuster to contact BMO because that&#8217;s how BMO wants things done. At least, I&#8217;m two days ahead of where I thought I&#8217;d be after I hung up with her.<\/p>\n<p>Intact has been absolutely stellar. Big thumbs up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dug through my computer and found enough to call BMO this afternoon. Friday just felt too far away. The first number I tried was the wrong one, but the helpful lady gave me the correct number. The correct number was answered by an English-speaking computer. WHAT?! I&#8217;m not used to dealing with this stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,936,635,1298,5,3,16,612],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-legalities","category-north-america","category-petersburg","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","category-virginia-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}