Years ago I used my Bank of America card to keep my XXXX year old mother in a nursing home. The balance soon grew very large. After she passed away I began to repay BofA a larger monthly payment. I did pay monthly {$500.00} a month and XXXX or XXXX times I payed BofA {$1000.00} a month as they requested, to get the balance down. This was very difficult, so I reached an agreement with them to pay $ XXXX monthly I did this automatic payment for about two years. 
About 6 or 9 months ago I noticed the {$200.00} was not being taken from my checking acct. I called BofA and was told my acct. was written off and it was sent to collections. I told them I would have happily continued sending them {$200.00}. They did not contact me in anyway that to say the payments were schedule to stop. I asked what could I do. They said " nothing, once its gone to collections, there is nothing you can do ''. I asked for the address to begin paying again to a collection agency. Of course this places a negative credit mark for many years on my credit history. It seems so wrong the way they managed my acct. and placed my acct to collections without a tele. call, nor an email, or a letter to give me a chance to continue making payments. This lack of common courtesy to me by sending my acct to collections was wrong, and costs me a lot in higher interest rates throughout my life. I am XXXX years old and do not have a lot of years to wait 7 years for them to remove the " Sent to collections ''. 
