For all of you renters, I have a question to ask...

Do you write checks or MO's to your landlord or does landlord / management company have a pay online system? If you pay online, what is that system and what are your views on it?

No longer a renter, but when I was, I set up automatic payments directly through my bank. Worked fine, and I never had to worry about a payment being late or a check going astray.

Checks mailed to a PO Box here in Maplewood. At one time we could leave a check off at the realtors who wrote

the original lease on our apts but that went by the wayside

All my other bills, utilities , credit cards etc are on automatic payment through my bank. Would love to set that

up for my rent.

for our az rental they just set up an automated system- it was fine as it was tied into other stuff like submitting issues etc

for my nj business warehouse i use surepay via wells which is set up on my side not the landlords

I expect my tenants to use some form of electronic funds transfer -- their bank's system or PayPal or whatever else they want to use. I can accept anything and don't care how it gets there.

Some services take longer than others. As I recall, TD Bank used to take about a week to complete.

kibbegirl said:

Do you write checks or MO's to your landlord or does landlord / management company have a pay online system? If you pay online, what is that system and what are your views on it?

My LL picks up the check from my mailbox, we text and agree on which date he's coming by. I wish he'd take Chase Quickpay. We could save some trees, he could save some time and gas, it's free. Love it.

Thanks all. I think we'll go the PayPal route.

I added an account at my bank and gave my tenant deposit tickets.

Interesting. Are you with Chase?

FilmCarp said:

I added an account at my bank and gave my tenant deposit tickets.

FWIW we direct-deposit into his account, with a note identifying the property. (Transfer overnight from our account into his, once we've been paid) Quick, easy, makes sure we never overdraw at our end and he can see what's happening at his end.