I cannot answer your question, but I have always tried to limit my accounts at any one bank to 4. Any more than that may, IN MY OPINION ONLY, look suspicious. Most people just have a checking and savings account. Some others may also have a business account and/or a separate account for taxes. But to have NINE accounts?
I look at it as risk management. Anything could potentially happen to any given account and that could affect other accounts. Or a bank could change their policies at any time.
For example, what if SunTrust one day decided that it was NOT OK to have money coming in under a different name? If that happened, you would need 9 new accounts.
One recent post was from a member who claims that PayPal called his bank about one of his accounts and the bank closed all of them and sent him checks - each in the name of the person who had been receiving the money from PayPal. That could be a nightmare.
Just as we all know that it is best to spread out your risk by not relying on ONE eBay/Amazon/PayPal account, it is also smart to limit your risk in all other aspects of your business. There are plenty of banks out there, at least here in the US.
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