Is it better to do business/refinance with a small home-town bank than a huge national bank? and Bank of America security trying to prevent me from taking a photo during the Iraq war protest

Is it better to do business/refinance with a small home-town bank than a huge national bank?

There's a local bank that comes on the radio saying they have NO sub prime mortgages. Is it better banking with those kinds of banks?


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Answer by Elsie
Not necessarily. I think the worst is over as far as the banking shake out. We were originally financed with Wells Fargo, who did not sell our loan. We refinanced with US Bank who were one of the few banks that did not need or want any bail out money. They are bigger banks, so I think they have more lending power. A lot of smaller banks don't have a lot of money to loan out right now, so they may be more strict with their approval requirements.

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Bank of America security trying to prevent me from taking a photo during the Iraq war protest


Image by Steve Rhodes
I started to take a photo of the Bank of America which had been closed because of the protest and they told me I wasn't allowed to.

I explained I was on a public sidewalk. One of them gestured to an imaginary
line which they said was the Bank of America's property. Even if that was the case, I was a few feet beyond it.

I started taking some photos and they certainly didn't represent the Bank of America in a very favorable way (ie. like complete assholes). And now these photos are tagged Bank of America and will come up in searches.

I then noticed that red paint had been thrown high up on the window. Still, pretty mild compared to some of the Vietnam era protests against B of A.

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