It seems that people either love or hate Walmart, but this blog is not to defend or oppose their hiring or sales practices, but it is about Walmart coming to my rescue, and saving my day, or in this case my night yesterday.
Yesterday I got a call from one of my Borrowers that I had just Pre-Approved and who had submitted an offer on a house. His offer was accepted, and he wanted to lock in the interest rate and not take a chance on it going up this morning. It was about 5:00 pm and I was out and away from my computer, so I told him that I would take care of it as soon as I could get back to my computer. I arrived home at about 7:00 pm and the first thing I did was to flip open my laptop with the intention to lock the rate for my Borrower. Well that was the plan, but my router had other ideas. When I went to try to get onto the Internet and log onto my server at work, nothing happened. It is not unusual for this to happen, and all I generally have to do is to cycle my router or DSL modem and I am up and running, but that was not to be this time. When I went to cycle my router again I notice something that gave me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. There were no lights, it was cooked, fried, in other words it had bit the big one. OK what do I do? It was 7:00 pm on a Sunday and Best Buy, Radio Shack, Staples and all other places that I could think of that would carry routers were closed, all that is except one, Walmart.
I jumped in my car, well these days it was more like walked very quickly to the car and drove to the closest Walmart. When I arrived, there on the shelf was what I needed, it was even on sale. My luck was changing, the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach was disappearing. Walmart had come to the rescue.
I rushed home plugged in my bright shining new router, ran the software, and called my service provider to get some information that I was not sure of, and presto I was up and running. It was now past 9:00 pm. I logged onto the server at work, and locked the rate, and it was a good thing I did, because this morning my rate went up.
I am sure that Walmart's employees don't particularly enjoy working until 10:00 pm on Sunday nights. But if they did not, I would not only have had to make a drive to the main office, and open everything up, I would still have been without Internet at home, which would mean no ActiveRain. NO ActiveRain, now that would have been truly tragic. So thank you Walmart for coming to my rescue.
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George Souto is a Loan Officer who can assist you with all your FHA, CHFA, and Conventional mortgage needs in Connecticut. George resides in Middlesex County which includes Middletown, Middlefield, Durham, Cromwell, Portland, Higganum, Haddam, East Haddam, Chester, Deep River, and Essex. George can be contacted at (860) 573-1308 or gsouto@mccuemortgage.com
