Betty The Restauranteur

[mjr]

Some of her employees continue to have issues cashing their payroll checks, yes. One fellow in particular has bad luck, coming in on days when Betty's account is overdrawn (which is more often than not). He once held onto a payroll check for 5 weeks before he was able to cash it.

This is what I mean. Surprised this guy didn't ask for cashier's checks.

I'm actually quite surprised Betty has been able (and allowed) to stay in business this long. Doesn't the state/fed government get involved when an employer can't pay employees?

I'm surprised she isn't in more legal trouble. One could argue that she's knowingly writing checks that she doesn't have the funds to cover.

I hope they're getting check stubs, and she's taking out proper taxes.

[Ghel]

I thought you had already written that some of her employees were taking cash only? Which seems an absolutely required policy in her case.

Some of her employees continue to have issues cashing their payroll checks, yes. One fellow in particular has bad luck, coming in on days when Betty's account is overdrawn (which is more often than not). He once held onto a payroll check for 5 weeks before he was able to cash it.

I understand why Betty's daughter continues working for her, but I don't understand why anybody else does.

[Nunavut Pants]

I thought you had already written that some of her employees were taking cash only? Which seems an absolutely required policy in her case.

[catcul]

I'm a little surprised we haven't heard of her employees demanding cashier's checks.

I'm surprised she still has employees. I would be getting off that sinking ship as quickly as possible.

Unfortunately, Betty's checks bounce more often than an NBA basketball.

[mjr]

hardly anybody will take checks from her any more.

I'm a little surprised we haven't heard of her employees demanding cashier's checks.

[taxguykarl]

What odds the check bounces? Or does she have to use cashier's checks by this point?

If that was a property tax payment, chances are, the county used a guaranteed payment, i.e. cashier's check or cash.

[Ghel]

She used a cashier's check. There was a copy of the receipt for that, too. But it wasn't from us, it was from the credit union. So that verifies that she's got accounts with them. And yeah, she pretty much has to use cashier's checks for everything - hardly anybody will take checks from her any more.

[Mental_Mouse]

receipt showing she paid the $1700 down payment and the first half of the 2019 property tax. ... Now we get to monitor and follow up, same as always with Betty.

What odds the check bounces? Or does she have to use cashier's checks by this point?

[Ghel]

Betty somehow came through. She dropped off (in the night deposit, so she wouldn't have to face me) the notarized contract and documents from the county for her payment plan, along with a copy of the receipt showing she paid the $1700 down payment and the first half of the 2019 property tax. As Buzzard said, it's the bare minimum. But she did what we asked her to do to avoid foreclosure. Now we get to monitor and follow up, same as always with Betty.

[Buzzard]

Par for the course, then. Pay/do just the absolute minimum, at the last possible moment, to avoid having it taken away. The tax down payment will likely be made by... June 27-28. Still, I wouldn't put it past her for a mad scramble over the weekend when government offices are closed.

[Ghel]

No substantial update. We're giving Betty until the end of June to make the down payment on her payment plan for her property taxes. If she doesn't provide documentation that it's paid by then, we'll start foreclosure.

[Kagato]

Any updates lately, Ghel?

[dalesys]

... I really hope ...

Hope in one hand, *bleep* in the other and tell me which one gets warm!

[Ghel]

Hmm... it's a photocopy of "[County] Payment Plan Enrollment Information". It appears it was filled out and signed by a county employee. But yeah... I hope Betty doesn't think this is going to placate us so that we won't follow up to ask for the contract and receipt. I really hope she doesn't think we won't follow up with the county to make sure she's making her payments.

[Argus]

It's not the actual contract with the county, though. It's basically a worksheet.

That sounds like something Gord received once: http://actsofgord.com/Justice/chapter07.php

But maybe, through a stroke of luck, that was a copy dropped off as a progress report rather than something she would need to retrieve before proceeding.