We met with the Kansas Director of the SCORE offices, a man named Roger. He was a very nice guy who had good things to say about our project - mostly re-enforcing that it was an unbankable plan and needed to be financed by Investors - not bankers.
After the meeting Dad and Debby came back to the house to load up furniture from the office to take back to the farm until we secure our next temporary office space - likely OFFICETHIS on Harry St.
After Dad left, I continued on to a few more banks, going to UMB and the Bank of America. I had a bit of a rough experience at Bank of America. I went to lobby, asked to speak to a commercial loan officer. The teller had no clue who to send me to, so she told me to wait until the one other lady in the office was off the phone. I was finally told to go to the next floor up (this is a HUGE complex) where I talked to another receptionist. Finally, I was whisked away into another section of the bank before landing in someone's office. I asked if they in fact did start up loans and she said no. This is interesting because before I came to the bank, to not waste my time, I called them and asked if BOA did small business start up loans. She said they "certainly do! Is there anything else I could help you with today sir?? :)"
She was wrong. Waste of time. Waste of 2 dollars in the parking garage.
However, as I was exiting the bank, I bumped into my old boss Verell. He is now working as the show room manager at Scott Rice office furniture. He invited me to come back to his office where we caught up for a while. It was a good meeting - the funny thing is 3 of his co-workers are from whitewater. Josh Wuthrich, his dad, and a man named Lauren Theissen. In fact, the Wuthrichs once lived in the house just down the road from the Farm (where the Cron's live now). So that was a weird connection.
Anyway, Verell and I had a great meeting. It was good to see him again.
After that, I went to a Credit Union to check on some contacts, made a new one, and got my foot in the door with a manager at Fidelity. So, overall productive day.
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