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All that money out there and no one seems to know. |
| By Bobby Tanzilo Managing Editor E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Bobby Tanzilo |
| Published Feb. 4, 2009 at 8:58 a.m. |
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Although I don't ever expect to find my name, I always scour the unclaimed property lists that these days take up more space in the local newspaper than actual news. I look for the names of my family members, too.
Hey, you never know. After all, the fact that the list exists means that most of us don't expect we have money coming to us from an unknown or forgotten source.
When the list first appeared over the weekend, I noticed something curious. The Milwaukee Police Department has something in common with Jamaican-American record shops of the past.
While the city and county lists are all alphabetized traditionally, the police list is alphabetized by first name!
Yes, Ahmed Khan is first on the list and Wal-Mart -- which is due $100 -- is last.
And that's another interesting thing. A lot of businesses have unclaimed property.
Wal-Mart appears frequently and has seven amounts totaling $645 in the Milwaukee County Treasurer Office list alone.
How does General Motors Acceptance Corp. of Brookfield not know there's $286 out there with its name on it? Are their computers not working? Is there a Y2K8 issue I didn't hear about?
The ones that really make me wonder are the listings for folks like Cudahy's Carole J. Peters. I've misplaced a 20-spot every now and again and certainly there's some stray change under the seat of my car, but Peters has $21,178.73 waiting for her and apparently doesn't know.
Of course, she may have moved or worse, moved on, but if she left town, you'd think she'd remember to pick up that 21-large before locking the door on the U-Haul.
West Allis' Karen Ross is sitting on nearly $23,000 and doesn't seem to know. I hope she gets the paper and has darn good vision or at least a magnifying glass.
And, hey, if Ross and Peters don't want their cash, there are plenty of non-profits around that could use it. I bet our metropolitan public schools, for example, could put the thousands of dollars listed on the eight pages of unclaimed property to good use.
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Posted by Joscasta on Feb. 4, 2009 at 2:19 p.m. (report)
Sometimes people die, or move away and forget to change their address. I once found an old account that belonged to a great aunt of mine that has since passed on, and it turned out to be 500 bucks. I passed the info on to my cousin who handled her estate, and he gave me a small finders fee for finding it. I have discovered that I had missing money that I just recently claimed off of www.missingmoney.com from an old address that just happened to still be on my license that allowed me to claim it!
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