09-12-2017, 06:58 AM
Granted this is advice is from a while ago, when we moved...
We were only going to keep our mainland account, as it should not have been a problem...
But the great credit card fiasco of `05 happened less than 2 weeks after our move, right after we signed the lease on our temp rental house.
having all of you money mainland, with no access to our accounts via credit/debit cards. That was a fiasco in itself, as we were renting in HPP...with "General Delivery" for our MAILING address & an HPP address....between USPS snafus & FedEx snafus, we had only a mainland checking account for over a month.... try cashing mainland checks with a Hawaii ID!!! Mainland ID probably would also be hard...
We established a Hawaii account as soon as we could in the middle of this.... Luckily bank transfers were not so problematic!
We were only going to keep our mainland account, as it should not have been a problem...
But the great credit card fiasco of `05 happened less than 2 weeks after our move, right after we signed the lease on our temp rental house.
having all of you money mainland, with no access to our accounts via credit/debit cards. That was a fiasco in itself, as we were renting in HPP...with "General Delivery" for our MAILING address & an HPP address....between USPS snafus & FedEx snafus, we had only a mainland checking account for over a month.... try cashing mainland checks with a Hawaii ID!!! Mainland ID probably would also be hard...
We established a Hawaii account as soon as we could in the middle of this.... Luckily bank transfers were not so problematic!