I put my finger on the commission number.

“Then I want the notary record, and copies of both pages, time-stamped.”

She said only the manager could release the notary record, and he was at lunch until one.

So I had her write the number on a deposit slip.

She wrote it out, then read it back to me twice without my asking.

The association officer was standing on my sidewalk when I came up the street, a clipboard in one hand and a sheet of bright yellow paper in the other.

“Code enforcement posted this at eleven,” he said.