Bulk Sales Escrow

Categories: Banking

A way to make sure that creditors, especially unsecured ones, are protected when a company is at risk of bankruptcy.

Despite its clever marketing ploy to attract its target market, Pineapple Express (a pizza shop focused exclusively on pizza with pineapples) was going out of business.

When Seth, a creditor with an unsecured claim, caught wind of this, he called his friend, James, a lawyer. James created a bulk sales escrow account, sold all of the leftover pineapples and the pizza oven, and put the proceeds into this account, ensuring Seth would get enough of his money back to buy all the munchies he desired.

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Finance a la shmoop what is escrow so leave it to the French they'll cook and [Man and woman cooking food]

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eat anything horse hoof pig snout and yes finally snail but wait that's

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different oh okay well escrow is a financial state

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of being akin to the pearly gates where st. Peter is a you know checking you out [St Peter appears in the clouds]

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there's a transaction a contract a whole bunch of signatures a commitment and

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then a holding time our waiting period or cooling period will the transaction

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be allowed through the gates or in Dante fashion will it be sent back to the pits

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of hell to be renegotiated fixed or suffer eternal damnation yeah those are

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the questions escrow is that special place where your dough hangs out until [Escrow definition appears on 100 dollar bill]

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the grander powers that be decide whether or not that dough can be you

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know shoveled along forward selling your home well it's likely the buyer first

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puts their dough into an escrow account which only gets released to you once [money transfers into a piggy bank]

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those pesky socialist termites have been eradicated by Clint Eastwood and if the

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termites win well you won't be able to afford cooked snail any time soon and

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we'll just put it that way so its escrow your money just kind of sits there until [Escrow piggy bank waiting at traffic lights]

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gets a green light all the contracts are signed everything's good then the money

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just wires into your bank account and then you can move on with life

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