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Credit Unions for example require a share purchase usually so while it's usually quite small some people can't afford to loose even $5.
Sometimes it's also debt, guy owes his normal bank a fuckload of money so uses the cash checking to cash his check, he might lose a bit in fees but it's probably less than what the bank would of taken. I've seen alot of contractors in this situation.
Is that what they mean when they say money's tight?