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Fri, Aug 17, 2007

Elevations

Posted at 5:43 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

A month or so ago when my credit union's website was being annoying, I looked around for an alternative. Today I stopped in to the office of Elevations (I think they used to be the University of Colorado Credit Union) and opened a checking and savings account. It took a while, but I walked out with the new bank accounts opened.

I also walked out with my new credit and debit cards: apparently they have machines that can emboss the cards with the user name and account number right in the (fairly small) branch office. I'm impressed.

The checks will still take a week or two (tsk ... these archaic technologies).

The Visa credit card is part of the overdraft protection on the checking account. They gave me their lowest interest rate, which has a high credit limit. My total available credit is just silly these days

I'm not going to transfer all of my banking to Elevations just yet (though the next time my savings CD matures I may move that money over to a CD at Elevations). I've got too many online payments set up to pull from Bellco. To make any kind of quick changeover practical. I think I'm going use the Elevations accounts to save up for the next car I buy: I want to pay cash for my next vehicle.

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