Well yes yeah for you.  The post above yours - who in the heck told you only financial institutions can charge interest - interest is very common in most sectors of the business world now.  And with doctors, etc requiring fees up front - interest is being charged - most have to put it on their credit cards.  We could think about that, I have thought about having large companies give a cost deposit for expenses to be incurred that has to be replenished every month or so.  Cost aren't so bad for regular title searches but can get very steep for doc retrievals and file retrievals to incur and hold on for sometimes months.  This is all something we would have to do pretty much across the board - but I think it is time.  Sure makes me mad when I call a company and their only reasoning for not paying me is that they have to many invoices to pay and not enough employees to do the work.  The larger vendor management companies have much more opportunity to turn a profit on interest in their accounts and to secure ample credit lines than the individual abstractor.  I'm like Shannon - due upon receipt AND no later than thirty days.  Anyone thought about due upon receipt and no later than 15 days - maybe we would get paid in thirty then - lol.  The way around the interest ceiling laws is a flat rate late charge - incurred no matter how low or high the balance like credit card companies are doing now - flat rate late charge and interest - now I think that is a crock because if you are late - they collect more interest because the balance hasn't gone down any - but now they want to slap fees on top of it.  How many of you all have applied for credit lines on your business checking - what is the average and what is the average cost if you go into the credit portion of it for a few days or a week or so?