Ever lose the keys to your safe deposit box?

seateddime

Somehow I know this is going to be a pain.

Staircoins

$75 to drill the lock at my bank.


Edit: Fee waived for Private Banking customers.

illini420

I did for a box I had in a Vegas casino... wasn't too painful, just had to pay for them to drill and replace the lock/key.

edited to add that I'm pretty sure the charge was between $100-$150, billed to the room of course

ricko

Another reason to avoid SDB's. Cheers, RickO

WoodenJefferson

<< <i>$75 to drill the lock at my bank.


Edit: Fee waived for Private Banking customers. >>



$75 is cheap...I paid $135 to have my Mom's drilled out/replaced, but she was from a small town (no local lock smith) and the Bank called out the company to do the work, I did not have a choice in the matter. (I assume the company they called were bonded) I had to have Power of Attorney to be there, the lock smith had to sign documents, the bank had to have 2 witnesses, it was a mess. The only thing in there was a 1976 Bi-Centennial 3-piece proof set that I had gotten my Dad.

When I took it to her, she remembered cleaning out most of the box before the key went missing, but she told me to keep the proof set anyways. We never came across the key when we went through her estate, we figure it was lost in the car she drove to the bank, which was sold to a person we could not track down. I have the most ever paid for 1976 3-piece silver proof set.

50LargeCentz

Been there done that.

SaorAlba

I have the opposite problem. A relative of mine died in 2002 and I was the heir, unfortunately there were assorted SDB keys and no notice of where the banks were. I found all but one - I still have the keys and watch the unclaimed property website in California but still hasn't turned up. As a measure of what was in the SDB's I found a couple of Krugerrands, old 22K railroad watches etc.

mrdq

$15 bucks here when I lost my key 2 years ago. Maintenance guy drilled it out and put in a new one in 5 minutes or less.

Bear

I have never lost the key, but "The windmills of my mind
stopped turning years ago."

Mercury10c

<< <i>Another reason to avoid SDB's. Cheers, RickO >>


Simple solution: DON'T LOSE THE KEYS!!!

BigE

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<< <i>$75 to drill the lock at my bank.


Edit: Fee waived for Private Banking customers. >>



$75 is cheap...I paid $135 to have my Mom's drilled out/replaced, but she was from a small town (no local lock smith) and the Bank called out the company to do the work, I did not have a choice in the matter. (I assume the company they called were bonded) I had to have Power of Attorney to be there, the lock smith had to sign documents, the bank had to have 2 witnesses, it was a mess. The only thing in there was a 1976 Bi-Centennial 3-piece proof set that I had gotten my Dad.

When I took it to her, she remembered cleaning out most of the box before the key went missing, but she told me to keep the proof set anyways. We never came across the key when we went through her estate, we figure it was lost in the car she drove to the bank, which was sold to a person we could not track down. I have the most ever paid for 1976 3-piece silver proof set. >>




Great story! At least you know how Geraldo felt -------BigE

RickMilauskas

You could always keep your keys in a safe deposit box.

foodude

No, but I had a lock on a safety deposit box break, and then the keys would not work. I watched while they bank had the lock drilled.