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I<\/strong> lost<\/strong><\/span> 16 rent checks. I used the bank’s night drop, and the envelope wedged between the metal chute and the bank\u2019s brick wall. Just got buried in there like a time capsule.<\/p>\n I wondered, Did I forget to make the deposit? Was the deposit in my car somewhere?<\/p>\n I spent hours looking through file cabinets and garbage cans for that deposit. The bank found the deposit three months later. I wrote the bank manager about my embarrassment — having to tell 16 tenants I lost their checks. I asked the bank to waive its service fees for a year. I wrote: \u201cI heard my father — who died years ago — talking to me, saying \u2018You did what? You lost<\/em> the money?’\u201d<\/p>\n The bank<\/strong><\/span> didn\u2019t waive the fees. They did, however, give me $110 to cover tracer fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I lost 16 rent checks. I used the bank’s night drop, and the envelope wedged between the metal chute and the bank\u2019s brick wall. Just got buried in there like a time capsule. I wondered, Did I forget to make the deposit? Was the deposit in my car somewhere? I spent hours looking through file […]<\/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-27788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788","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=27788"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28405,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788\/revisions\/28405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}