Probably the stack of papers he brought to the hotel was all business related. I personally think the grinch portrayal is a stretch. I highly doubt Suzanne was begging for money from Barry.
Who is saying that Suzanne was begging for money from Barry? I'm completely confused. Barry himself ("I am the ATM") is leaving us with the impression that he controlled the money (and surely Suzanne didn't have a steady outside source of income?)
I'm guessing the stack of papers was previously stored in two pendaflex folders whose remains were found in the fireplace. Why would Barry be lugging business-related papers into a hotel for a brief stay in which he mostly cleaned his body (apparently), went twice to the job site, and went dumping trash? Surely he could have done this easier at home (where the accounting usually took place)? It would only have taken 20 minutes. At any rate, are you buying that's why he went so early to Broomfield? To organize his papers and clean out his truck?
It was a messy set of papers loosely held inside a large binder (according to LS). Then, about 20 minutes later, it was organized. We have no clue what those papers were, other than that Barry quickly organized them and took them back to the truck.
Barry himself says he's a cheapskate. He says he didn't like to pay for trash pick-up, so he used someone else's (who paid for it). He says Suzanne didn't have an ATM card. He took a contract to build an (expensive) retaining wall for the State of Colorado, botched it, and never fixed it (they weren't going to pay him more - I'm surprised they haven't sued him as someone else had to do it and the State of CO footed the bill). Why didn't Barry go ahead and arrange for the job to be done? Because he wasn't getting paid.
He was busy buying a new truck. Selling off an old Range Rover. Taking control of his wife's assets. He had time for that, but not to fulfill his obligation on a high dollar contract he'd undertaken.
I am not painting him as a grinch (the Grinch is lovable, at least my granddaughter loves him).
When someone shows you who they are (skinflint, cheapskate), believe 'em.