Interboro Funeral Svc

After telling JERMAINE AT THE DESK I would not do business at a different funeral home chosen by two of my siblings and would do business with this Black owned establishment, which unfortunately I had attended twice before in the past, I am disappointed in the end.
ALTHOUGH, INTERBORO’S FEE WAS $ 1,200 MORE I wanted to support Black business.
Imagine my dismay when I DISCOVERED I WAS LIED TO BY OMISSION two weeks after the service.
There were seven of us that were beneficiaries on MY MOTHER’S SMALL POLICY exclusively for her burial. Jermaine told me that he needed four of us to begin the process for the funeral.
What HE DIDN’T SAY was that HE NEEDED to make sure enough of us signed who were receiving monies TO COVER THE FUNERAL PARLOR’S COSTS AND THAT THE INSURANCE COMPANY WOULD NOT SPLIT THOSE COSTS EVENLY AMONGST THE BENEFICIARIES. THE INSURANCE COMPANY WOULD ONLY TAKE MONIES FROM THOSE THAT SIGNED THE FUNERAL HOME’S «ASSIGNMENT.»
There is fundamentally nothing wrong with that scenario since this is a business. What was wrong is that HE DID NOT SAY THIS. Had he said that then at the funeral THE OTHERS COULD HAVE ALSO SIGNED THE PAPERWORK. Or maybe no one would have signed it and we would have stayed with the Funeral Home, which only requested one signature.
Jermaine tried to lie and say I said maybe everyone would not sign it and some of my siblings were coming from out of state so that’s why he didn’t mention the split. But that has nothing to do with the omission. Why? I expected the two would not have BUT ONE OF MY SISTERS FROM OUT OF STATE DID SIGN OFF WHEN SHE CAME IN EARLY. As the Trustee I would have simply said to each sibling we all need to sign it to get paid and share the costs. We had beef but not at the funeral home during the services.
But, since I did not know this – four out of the seven will bare costs initially and all we were trying to do is bury our mother. I think we can straighten it out on my family’s end regardless of the disagreements but by me sticking my neck out to support my people and this whole situation having to be revisited after we put it behind us as a family just bolsters the very lack of Community Support I was trying to obtain.
Too bad for them as a ‘Black Owned Business’ because I cannot accept deceit and then lack of ownership when you get called on it professionally.
The service was decent. I put up with the cracked walls and holes but this was too much.
It is not a lot of money so that is not the issue. There definitely was strife in the family and I made him aware of this. It appears he used that confiding in him to secure a job I BROUGHT TO HIM in the first place. That is not cool for someone who has just lost a loved one ESPECIALLY THEIR MOTHER.
NO STARS FROM ME but I have to give ONE to post this. So I will for the service.