The Third Bag
61% said hide it. Cash is one of the hardest things on Earth to hide.
Pay Dre, or move the bag tonight?
PAY won. The majority wrote Part 3.
What happened
Bury it, and paper money soaks up water and rots. A storage unit wants your ID. A safe deposit box logs and films every visit.
Rule two: never keep it all in one place. Bag one goes in the ground. Bag two goes in a storage unit, a year paid up front in cash. Bag three goes to the one hiding place with no paper trail: your cousin Dre.
Meanwhile the analyst runs your name and finds the storage lease. Suspicion jumps to 52%.
3:12am. A text from Dre: "I saw what's in the bag. I need fifty K." Pay him, or move the bag tonight?
5 Founders on this part's case board. Get on the next one.
The evidence
The story is fiction. These rules are real.
Rotten cash
The Treasury can redeem damaged money, but you have to send a letter estimating the value and explaining how it got damaged.
Source: BEP Mutilated Currency Redemption · Read: Damaged cash
Safe deposit boxes
The bank can't see inside, but every visit is logged and the vault is on camera. And what's inside isn't FDIC insured.
Source: FDIC · Read: Safe deposit boxes
Form 8300
A business that takes more than $10,000 in cash has 15 days to report it to the IRS, with the buyer's name.
Source: IRS: Form 8300 · Read: Form 8300