• plateee@piefed.social
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    21 days ago

    Don’t forget any home improvement tasks. Need your yard leveled? Landscapers would love to give a slight cash discount.

    Tree needs taking down? Cash.

    Tuckpointing a chimney? Cash.

    Annoyingly, you can’t actually use “cash” cash for a cash down payment on a house. Mortgage lenders like to know where the money is coming from.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 days ago

      contract work is 100% the ideal place to spend suspicious cash, it usually costs a ton but the work is done by tiny companies or straight up a single individual. They might not even feel a need to keep note of what work was done…