? have you ever lost any money? --161.226.xxx.xxx

I lost a rent check in a deposit envelope before. Didn't realize it until the tenant texted me about 2 weeks later because it hadn't cleared his acct. Had him issue a new one and found it shortly after. It fell down between the seat and console in my car. --174.201.xx.xxx

Definitely need to update the rent collection process. It's so easy and inexpensive these days to automate. --173.20.xxx.xxx

Wow... --76.120.xx.xx

Neighbor pulls up in his car just sold all his old cameras equipment, has $1200 cash... opens the compartment between the seats to show me his cash. All while smoking his expense gigar that he stopped along the way to buy in celebration. Opens the lid there is nothing! His heart now is stopping. I get in the car we talk about his day, running down events and stops and possibilities of what happened to his cash! I can't believe it either. So i open the container and there is the cash! What hsppened is there were two parts to the compartment...a thin top part and a deep draw like area. He put the cash in the thin upper compartment but opened the lower one not realizing there were two options! What a great ending to that story! Hope you find you $100 cash. My guess is its safe somewhere close by! --99.203.xx.x

Plenty, that story reminds me of civil forfeiture. If the cops find cash on you they could very well take it and you will never see it again. --76.120.xx.xx

Jeff,how can the cops keep my cash? I carry thousands regularly since I buy houses at foreclosure auctions regularly.Assuming I don't appear to be acting in a criminal manner etc they aren't taking my cash.I have never even had a cop ask or tell me to empty my pockets --72.231.xxx.xxx

She was honest enough to call and tell me LOL! --50.82.xxx.xx

Ken, you might want to read up on civil forfeiture. Go to YouTube and check out lawyer Steve Lehto's video on the subject. If the cops find money on you, there is NOTHING to stop them from saying it's drug money, taking it from you, and never charge you with a crime. It happens every day. --76.120.xx.xx

A tenant "miscounted" once and I didn't count it in front of her. I came home and called her and said that a hundred dollar bill was missing. She said that "yew she tought maybe that happened" as she had too much money left. So I went back and she gave me the hundred. Mom was alive then and we surely needed it as GM had shut down and we had six empties. I count it in front of them. I lay it out in piles on the floor if I have to. I like cash. I don't deposit it because the bank is a nuisance about that. I use it. There are no electronic problems or glitches and it's here if I need it. One solar eruption at the wrong time will wipe out your data and then you will be hurting. OK when you counted I think maybe the tenant had folded a bill in the middle so you thought there were two? Was there another hundred in there? --173.61.xxx.xx

Jeff, I'm calling BS on that. --24.20.xxx.xxx

The only time I would think something like that would come into play is if you were busted for drug dealing, etc and had a wad of cash that they confiscated as likely to be related to that. --24.20.xxx.xxx

JB, call it what you like. You sound very uninformed. --76.120.xx.xx

Jeff, they can't just pat Ken down because he's walking down the street. --174.201.x.xx

I cashed a check for over $3,000.00 at my local bank, when I went to pay a bill with it I discovered the teller had given me an extra $100.00 bill. She was surprised when I stopped by first thing the next morning to give it back. --96.237.xx.xx

NE, there are a lot of things they can't do. But if you don't think civil forfeiture is a real thing, you are only fooling yourself. --76.120.xx.xx

You're delusional Jeff. --24.20.xxx.xxx

I think you are hanging with the wrong crowd! --24.20.xxx.xxx

BRAD --73.102.xxx.xxx

Make a note to stop collecting cash, in fact why chase frogs to collect anything? The banks have gates, cameras, guards and guns - clearly they are in the money business... --76.188.xxx.xx

Once I lost a whole deposit for the month...fortunately I found it 3 days later. I was soooo angry with myself. I did loose a $350 money order once. The tenant was understanding and gave me their receipts so I could get a new one. --174.255.xxx.xx

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JB, are you a flat-earther? --76.120.xx.xx

Worry about this is like drinking Moshe's excessive worry kool-aid. --50.32.xxx.xx

There is a difference between being aware of something and worrying about something. --76.120.xx.xx

Problems and issues too, right? --50.32.xxx.xx

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Why start now? --76.120.xx.xx

Years ago my wife combined all the rent money, several thousand, into one envelope to take to the bank and threw the rest away. When she got to the bank she realized she threw the wrong envelope away. I went dumpster diving pretty quickly to retrieve the correct envelope. Thank goodness I don't deal with cash much these days. --50.26.xx.xxx

Sorry to the OP. Not trying to hijack your thread. I'm just afraid if I start a new one that Jeff will run away. --24.20.xxx.xxx

MikeA(TX), it sounds like you were a very lucky man. --24.20.xxx.xxx

Jeff is correct on the civil forfeiture issue. Those forfeitures help fund the offices of DA's across the country. There was a huge controversy about this in a PA county recently and I'll dig up the article and post a link. Yes, the cops can stop you, accuse you of illicit activity and take assets while you have to prove you're innocent to get them back. Proving you're innocent could take years. I'll dig up the link and post. --209.122.xx.xxx

GKARL, good post. They won't believe you, though. You can tell some folks that water is wet and they will deny it. :) --76.120.xx.xx

It's the odds. The ODDS of this ACTUALLY happening are slim to none. --50.32.xxx.xx

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As for cops seizing money, I have heard something to that effect. However I thought it had to be greater than $10k cash. --174.255.xxx.xx

Barbara, the cops can seize any amount they want. They welcome all of it! --76.120.xx.xx

Cash is rather old school. No need to tempt anyone and I don't need to let you know that if you carry it around with you - you might just lose it. --24.101.xxx.xx

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I'm sooo glad I have everyone depositing to the bank or sending the money via Zelle. Misplacing checks or running to the bank to make deposits are a thing of the past. Updating my books is easy with a download of the transactions from the bank. I can't imagine going back to cash collections and worrying about misplacing money. That was stressful. --209.122.xx.xxx

I'm sooo glad I have everyone depositing to the bank or sending the money via Zelle. Misplacing checks or running to the bank to make deposits are a thing of the past. Updating my books is easy with a download of the transactions from the bank. I can't imagine going back to cash collections and worrying about misplacing money. That was stressful. --209.122.xx.xxx

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Civil forfeiture read up on it dudes. The city of Chicago is being sued as we type. Steve Lehto to the max!!! It is a real thing. --68.60.xxx.xx

Chicago is altogether on a different planet. The crime and corruption in that single city is off the charts. Every politician that has come from there has been bought and paid for many times over. I can believe anything happening there. --24.20.xxx.xxx

as Jeff said. JB should get educated. --70.119.xxx.xxx

NE also should get educated --70.119.xxx.xxx

Agreed, but slim chance of that! :) --76.120.xx.xx

More from that crowd... --50.32.xxx.xx

Yes, the educated crowd. --76.120.xx.xx

Cash is still alive, in fact, cash is KING. --99.59.x.xxx

We need to remember, there ARE good people out there. --47.216.xx.xxx

Welcome to the formerly free Authoritarian States of America. Sigh. --47.216.xx.xxx

To be quite honest, I would love to see federal agents check out a drug dealer's possessions and confiscate if it doesn't make sense. I have zero sympathy for dealers/ traffickers. Too bad-so sad. --24.20.xxx.xxx

JB, you're kinda slow. This thread has nothing to do with drug dealers. It's about innocent people who are robbed without due process. Why is it so difficult for you to understand? --76.120.xx.xx

No, Jeff. That seems to be exactly what YOU made it about. If you actually read LTD's comment directly above maybe you could comprehend my response. --24.20.xxx.xxx

At least one of these seven factors is present in 99.2 percent of all adoptive seizures under the newer policy. Nearly 80 percent of cash/currency or vehicle adoptions involve circumstances where the assets were seized pursuant to a judicial seizure warrant and/or the seizure was accompanied by an arrest for criminal misconduct. Likewise, nearly 80 percent of the time cash or vehicle seizures also involve the seizures of illegal drugs or other contraband. In a strong majority of these cases, the individual from whom the property is seized denies ownership of the property being seized or otherwise admits the property is specifically connected to criminal activity. --24.20.xxx.xxx

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We're done. You're dismissed. --76.120.xx.xx

Now, you are dismissed. --24.20.xxx.xxx

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sorry for the typos, I am not used to posting with my smart phone. --216.23.xxx.xx

To deny that is just...well you are just wrong. It happens. --50.82.xxx.xx

Lana, first you will have to convince him that water is wet. Good luck!!! :) --76.120.xx.xx

precisely as Lana said. and Jeff. it appears several LL here who are ostriches.... --70.119.xxx.xxx

Undoubtedly, this is usually drug money. But what a huge moral hazard. --72.172.xxx.xx

why “undoubtedly” ? maybe some perhaps was. but until a court decides it was it should not be forfeited. --70.119.xxx.xxx

PMH, your comment about court is the crux of the matter regarding civil forfeiture. No arrest, no trial. War on drugs. --72.172.xxx.xx

I like cash,haven’t seen much of it lately,would like to find a $100.bill on the flat Earth.The Earth is flat here in New Haven,otherwise I might slide off You mentioned Banks.My dad used to get a couple of loads of gravel there for the shared lane! Charlie..................?????.......................banks??????..............it’s almost 10pm,time for breakfast............. --32.214.xxx.xx

JB, do some research. Jeff is right re civil forfeiture. Do you think the cops are all angels? The law was written to allow the police department to keep and use assets seized. The abuses have come to light in penna., and both repubs and Dems are reforming the laws. It was very easy for the cops to do what Jeff describes, and the victim would have to pay an attorney to file a motion to recover his money. --69.248.xx.xx

JB, the "remedy" that you cite is for the victim to hire an attorney and spend a thousand or more to file a motion to recover the asset. So when the cop takes five hundred from you is that what you are gonna do? Or do you think you just go to the police captain and say" I am a good citizen, pleas e give me back my money"? --69.248.xx.xx

JB, the "remedy" that you cite is for the victim to hire an attorney and spend a thousand or more to file a motion to recover the asset. So when the cop takes five hundred from you is that what you are gonna do? Or do you think you just go to the police captain and say" I am a good citizen, pleas e give me back my money"? --69.248.xx.xx

JB, the "remedy" that you cite is for the victim to hire an attorney and spend a thousand or more to file a motion to recover the asset. So when the cop takes five hundred from you is that what you are gonna do? Or do you think you just go to the police captain and say" I am a good citizen, pleas e give me back my money"? --69.248.xx.xx

I like cash, too. As far as some of the stories above, two suggestions. First, I never put cash in an envelope, too easy to mix it up with other envelopes. Second, I use what I call my " south philly wallet," which is a thick rubber band. Put it around your stack of cash, fold in half, and around it again. You can feel that knot in your pocket, nothing is gonna blow away when you take it out, and with the friction from the rubber band no one is gonna pick pocket you. --69.248.xx.xx

There is no easy answers - but rather a balancing act. --24.101.xxx.xx