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Sandra Boynton! That would be fun.

It appears to be super hard to do so from the UK to here.

Yes, I met some nice British people in a bank over the summer who were having all kinds of issues.

Nora, I expect every country is different, but I have never had much of an issue transferring money. When I lived in Brazil, I just wrote a check to a company and they cashed it. Also, companies like Western Union or Moneygram do it often. I have been paid several times by Moneygram when my client's family is overseas.

Nora, I'd think the difficulty might depend on who's transferring the money, etc. Are you anticipating getting it directly from the tenant, or would they give his dad a check and he'd need to send it, or...?

Sandra Boynton is way more fun and of higher interest to me personally than Sandra Bullock.

Holy hell. I'm swamped. Can someone make a temporary clone of me to do all my scut work?

That's great news, Scrappy!

Great news and a welcome relief, Scrappy!

Also enjoying the typical Monday here. The substantial amount of work an editor promised me would be ready to assign this morning since it's due finished by end of Wednesday? Not here and only trickling in throughout the day in tiny drops. Oh, and one of the three days I'd slated a subcontractor to work on it this week is apparently a national holiday in India.

It would be the solicitor/rental agent we've been dealing with (side note: this is the same solicitor who had settled Tom's mother's estate, and one of the reasons I wish they'd have just kept collecting the rent in lieu of us making a payment on the estate settling is because of the craziness.)

So, the tenant pays the solicitor in St. Andrews. The solicitor transfers half of the rent payment to Tom's dad (in the UK, so no problem). The other half, up until now, has been held to cover Tom's mother's end of life expenses and estate settlement expenses.

England has some pretty freaking hardcore anti-terrorism banking laws in effect which is, I think, some of the source of the issue.

So can the solicitor just transfer the money in pounds to our account in New Orleans and it shows up as dollars at whatever currency conversion is happening that day? Since they are not a bank, I am not sure where a wire transfer would be initiated. If we had a UK bank account I think they could do a regular direct deposit, and then we could deal with the wire transfer between both bank accounts?

I don't even know.

Typo, we can opens a US account, it's the UK account that we are having trouble with. Also, what kind of transfers are you talking about? Stephanie, so if the solicitor sends us a paper check (in pounds) we could just deposit it in our American bank account? Also, I don't see these solicitors doing much by way of sending us the money, they don't really need anything from us, so their motivation to help us out is low.

And if he can find one that's been hanging around for 13 or so years open, we still don't know how to get the money from that account into our US account.

Um, I have an account that I opened in 1994. I never closed it. It had like £5 in it, so it may have been closed for me.

Also, do either of you have an American Express card? They deal with international transfers a lot. Even without a card, they may be able to be helpful.

Nora, looks like you should be able to deposit a check in pounds, it might just be slow?:

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