No, actually my rent increase occurred the month before I
even decided to create a new budget. In fact, in all the
recurring payments showed the correct amount (although
there were of course entries of the old amount in the
check register).

I went as far as completely deleting the recurring rent
payment entirely, set up a new budget and left the rent
completely out of the expenses. When finishing and going
to the 'Budget Status Screen' - there it was again - my
old rent payment sitting there staring me from under the
Bills: Rent category! From where did it get this?? I
don't know. Phantom recurring payment that only the
budget sees.


I even started again by deleting my old budget and
creating a new one from scratch without Money's automatic
setup activated. It still appeared!

Frustrating week, first my rent goes up then MSMoney keeps
throwig it back in my face. At least I found a solution.


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I had to basically the same thing when I had a rent increase but didn't have
the problem you experienced. When you made the change did you click on the
edit budget item on the budget screen. When you click on the item to change
and choose edit mine brought up the recurring payment and I made my change -
worked fine. If the item is an auto pay etc. and money has already made an
entry into the account register, the new amount might not show up until the
next month. Anyway that's been my experience.

Jim

"Arun" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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You know what Todd, I have been struggling with what
sounds like the same thing all night myself... and I
found a SOLUTION!

My dillemna:
My rent used to be $1240 and has increased to $1340. I
changed my recurring payment amount but the old amount
still seems to sum into my rent category when in
the 'Review Current Budget Status Screen' - which gives
me a rent expense of $2580 (trus me - this place aint
THAT nice). I read, and you probably did too, that I
need to set an end date for the previous transactions,
but since everything is right - there's nothing to
correct - AARRG!. When you right-click the incorrect
line your only options are to edit, reallocate, add one-
time item, change status - nothing useful.

Here's the solution. Click the bad line and choose 'Add
one-time item'. Choose the same category and add an
entry. Magically, the category expands showing the other
phantom transactions. Right click them then add an end
date, delete it, whatever, just do as you may.

It's another Microsoft Bug. They don't care - it's where
good programmers go to die. They also feel they're too
good to visit these message boards. We're all here
because their online help is a joke and the 'Knowledge
Base' is little more than an add for how great their
products are. That's why Steve Jobs will own them one
day and rip them apart limb-by-limb. 'In the end -
quality counts.'

It's my right to rant a little - I lost another 4 hours
of my life tonight dealing with some MS developer's
laziness.

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Are you using the debt reduction planner? I remember running into the same
problem, budget double entries being created when some bills (like CC
payments or mortgage) were scheduled via the planner, when they were simple
scheduled transactions before.

"Todd" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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One thing you might check is "recurring payments". I am having several
problems with the budget usage and one was the recurring items being added
to what I thought was a basic budget.

Clark

"Todd" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I'm having problems setting up a budget. My rent is
correct for the current month, but shows as double for
the next month. My car payment is double for the current
month, but correct for the next month view.

I've tried saving and loading a budget defined for a one
month period (5/1/04 - 5/31/04), but that doesn't help
either. I've reading all the help for budgeting provided
by Microsoft, but it is not very detailed.

By the way, as I'm building my budget, all the values are
correct.

Has any ran into this problem AND found a solution?

Thanks,
Todd