You would not believe how normie this situation is. My wife and I are buying a home and the escrow company required the final deposit to be made by wire transfer. However, I use the same local bank as the escrow company and they don't allow internal wires.
Working around that situation has required multiple emails, multiple calls, an in person bank visit, and both my wife and I to sign a specially prepared document. Everyone has been really nice but also acting like they're doing me a favor. I've managed not to shout at any of the clerks who had nothing to do with failing to anticipate this obvious edge case, but I had to vent somewhere.
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Yeah I hear stories like this more and more nowadays. Though that particular one may take the cake as the most absurd one yet. Kafka would probably tear up the page after writing it, as too unrealistic.
So presumably you have to wire the money out, then wire it back in...
After much hand wringing and signing of forms, I was allowed to "withdraw" it as cash (no cash was actually touched) and made a cash "deposit" into the escrow account. Honestly scares me to be performing ad hoc rituals with a big chunk of our savings.
That's so weird! One would think that both accounts being at the same bank would make things easier, not harder.