It is always a pleasure to be the first one to review a new business, and it is even a bigger pleasure when the experience has been as pleasant as the one I had at this bank.
Let me first give you some background on how we got to Chase. My business partners and I own a Realty company in the Brickell area and for the last few years we have been bouncing around banks trying to find the perfect one. We first started with Bank of America but left them when we moved our office from North Miami to Brickell. Mainly because there were no convenient branches with free parking around us. We then moved over to Wachovia, it started out OK, but when they switched to Wells Fargo they began charging us for every single service to the point we felt we were being nickel and dimed. Then we went to Total Bank, the problem with them was that too many of their employees had a difficult time with English, every time we had an issue, the biggest obstacle to getting good customer service was the language barrier.
So finally my two business partners and I ended up going to Chase Bank at 1450 Brickell Ave, a beautiful branch that recently opened less than a mile from our office, and met with Luis Arestegui and Jack Gonzalez, from the very start they were pleasant, respectful, and spoke English fluently. They spent literally hours with us as we opening a total of 10 accounts, 4 for our business, and 6 personal ones. They explained everything in minute detail, waived all fees for our personal accounts since we were opening business accounts, and made us feel as if we were the only customers in the bank. A few days later we had some issues with our on-line banking and went back to see Luis. He was busy with another customer but he acknowledge us right away. He came over to us asked us how we were doing, we told him what the problem was and he said he would take care of it as soon as he was done with his client. We left and less than 2 hours later the problems had been fixed.
Finally, yesterday afternoon I tried to use my ATM card for the first time and the machine told me that my PIN was not correct. This morning I walked into the branch and Jack came over said hello and literally in 2 minutes he fixed everything, not only that but he walked me over to the ATM just to make sure my new PIN was working. As I drove away I felt like I was back home in Washington DC, I have not received this level of customer service in years, I just hope that Chase keeps Luis and Jack at this branch for a very long time, they are by far the best bankers I have come across in the 16 years I have lived in Miami. Five stars all the way! read more