{"id":26146,"date":"2019-01-16T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26146"},"modified":"2019-02-28T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:57:31","slug":"lost-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/lost-money\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST MONEY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My main<\/strong><\/span> job is getting the rent money in the bank. A tenant put $640 cash in the drop box at the apartment building. Thirty-two $20-dollar bills. The money never made it into my hands. I was in Peru. That didn\u2019t help.<\/p>\n

\"screwI should get rid of that drop box. It\u2019s a thin metal box with a cheesy diary-like lock. The lock wasn\u2019t broken. From now on, each tenant mails the rent, just like back in the Stone Age. Or maybe I should simply put a sign on the box \u201cno cash\u201d and still permit checks.<\/p>\n

I believe the tenant \u2013 that she put the money in the drop box. She always pays with cash. And I don\u2019t think it was an inside theft job by my employees. (Take my word on that, or not.)<\/p>\n

My dad<\/strong><\/span> used to say, \u201cJob one is getting the money in the bank.\u201d He didn\u2019t even trust drive-thru tellers. He always waited in line in the bank.<\/p>\n

Another tenant put a money order in the same drop box, and that check is missing, as well. What\u2019s happening here? I told the tenant to get a replacement money order. He said, \u201cThis sucks.\u201d True. I apologized three times and told him to take $50 off his rent. So now I\u2019m out $690 (= $640 + $50) for January.<\/p>\n

I really wanted to write about bumping my head on a door jamb in Peru, but I\u2019m too upset about this money thing to write about door jambs. I\u2019m 5-8\u00bd. Bumping my head on a door jamb is new to me. A lot of people in Peru are short. I have a scab. In junior high I was the fourth-shortest boy in my class. Of about 165 boys, three were shorter: Krill, Kramer and Gold. (Kramer and Gold\u00a0 became wrestling champs — 93 pound and 103-pound, or something like that.) At the start of high school (10th grade), I was five feet.<\/p>\n

Back to<\/strong><\/span> money . . . My dad wouldn\u2019t be happy with me today. This is the first time I\u2019ve lost a rent payment in 43 years, to my knowledge. I’m thinking about video surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My main job is getting the rent money in the bank. A tenant put $640 cash in the drop box at the apartment building. Thirty-two $20-dollar bills. The money never made it into my hands. I was in Peru. That didn\u2019t help. I should get rid of that drop box. It\u2019s a thin metal box […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26150,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26146\/revisions\/26150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}