Risk mitigation. Retail banks don’t want anyone to know how much cash is available to robbers. If you need $10k, they will prepare it and take steps to make sure a robber doesn’t follow you.
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I think my mom's is around 800 for grass snow and outside maintenance. There is also a pool and community building with library and gym. Hers is 1800 sq ft detached house in a condo community.
Developers seem to be ethically challenged, especially in the condo sector. Re-writing the agreements sounds good but with a history of downgrading final value by skimping on quality as the project advances, do the buyers fear buying a money pit?
I’ve had BMO take me to the back, count money, and sign a waiver that they’re not responsible once I leave the premises for the money as some people had been robbed in that particular lot.
Lots of jugging reports from the USA. Thugs follow the person home and jump them.
How do they know what you're carrying? Dirty bank employees? When my wife was closing an account, I asked to close the account and take cash. I didn't yell out how much was in the account. Carried the envelope to another bank and deposited. If it was a life changing amount of money, I'd pay for a money order or wire.
I’d say most times it’s just a simple crackhead seeing someone coming out of a bank and assuming that there’s cash to be potentially easily attainable.
I'd have them fooled. I try to withdraw cash almost never. As with most personal transactions, I am not wearing good looking clothes or a fancy watch. I still may get randomly selected but given the choice, most other people look like better targets with more money (and they probably are the vast majority of the time).
At the branch I deal with occasionally it isn't hard to overhear transactions. In the old days of deposit and withdrawal slips you wrote down your needs. Now you verbalize them and some people don't realize how loud they are. Then the teller repeats the numbers.
An engineer friend worked in Brazil and people are cautioned to dress poor to avoid getting mugged. He said the one thing they typically overlook is their shoes. High end Nikes gets you a thump to the head.
What's cash? I seem to have forgotten...
Our condo row house in Burlington just hit $1059/mo, up $400 in 5 years. We pay water, gas, cable, internet ourselves, no community pool, fences or structures. It covers grounds maint and the maintenance of the exterior,
