Is my landlord ****ing me?
 

My landlord recently added a "$25 check processing fee" to my account out of nowhere.

Not only have I never paid them a check processing fee before, but it's not in the lease.

I've paid via check for a year and half with no extra fees. So...do I have to pay them or what?

I feel like they're trying to **** me.

JUST SAY NO - Nancy Regan

yes - don't just lay there!

Courts generally would rule in favor of the tenant for material changes if the landlord doesn't ask you to agree to an amended lease prior to implementing the charges.

Yeah, I’d be raising a strong objection to that nonsense.

Of course, if you're on month-to-month terms... that's a new ball game. Doesn't sound like you are though.

You shouldn't have worn that dress.

Does she look like this??

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Buy a home and stop throwing your money away.

Nope.

This company is shady. They put me in a house with a complete shit A/C and I had to beat them over the head with e-mails and multiple service visits before I got a replacement.

Turns out over 40% of the cooling fins were bent on the unit they replaced. ROFL

I won't be signing another lease with them. SBD Housing.

Ah yeah, I wouldn't tolerate that shit.

yes, he cant do that 'out of the blue'




1) if youre on a month-to month agreement:


Most likely, depending on what state you live in ... he would have to give you a 30-day or 60-day notice to add this fee. That would allow you sufficient time to decide if you want to keep living there, or find a different way to pay etc...


If you dont agree to the fee, you simply give 30-day notice of your own and be done with him


2) 12 month or similar lease


he cant make this change till the end of the lease period, if youre close to the lease period they could give you a 30 or 60 day notice for after the lease expires because


when the lease expires, it automatically converts to a month-to month so


see 1 if youre near the end of the lease

That's probably what I'm going to do in March.

That sucks ass to have a bad landlord.

I wouldn't pay the fee. It's not in the lease. If they want to fight it out in court, they'll be fighting a losing battle.

Silent but deadly?

Tell them it's not in the lease so you choose not to donate. Make them prove to you that they can add such a fee.

Company must have gotten burnt by bad checks. I always wrote checks when I rented because I wanted a written record that I paid. I'm amazed by the people who rent who pay cash month to month. Of course most of them don't have an account at a bank either, which always amazes me as well.

This company is a bigger corporate function that basically handles the leases and maintenance for people who actually own the houses.

They're trying to skim some more off the top it would seem.

If I don't buy a house in the spring I'm going to back to my old landlord. Just a dude with a bunch of houses. Never had a single issue.

First symptom is a pounding sensation in your ass. If it persists, seek help.

Copying what I posted on your FB thread:

I'd check the payment provisions of your lease. If there's no language regarding excess fees or collection methods, you may not have to pay it.

Of course, actually making that happen is an entirely different animal. You may have to hire an attorney to fight for you, and the attorney will probably charge you more to get you out of paying it than paying it will cost you. And of course, your landlord knows that.

Is your landlord ****ing you? Does he/she come through the window in your room while you're sleeping? That would be rape. You've been raped in your sleep.

It is 25 whole dollars....I wouldn't neccesarily call that getting ****ed

Check your lease agreement paying special attention to vague clauses about changes to the lease, rent and payment options. This will determine how you can handle the situation.
Once you have read it over again call your landlord and open communications regarding this situation. Use a emotionless town of voice. Depending on what you want to happen will help you decide how far you are wanting/willing to go in whichever direction that the conversation will go.

So you would just willingly piss away 300 bucks a year?

Do you know how much that is in 2118 dollars?

Especially after the collapse of the Trumpian Dynasty.

I never had a bank account until right before i bought the shop

Yes I would consider it ****ing him


I went to pay a bill in the AT&T store with cash in hand and they charged me a $1 processing fee I was like What The ****. Its cash here you go I'm not paying an extra dollar bullshit charge. I quit them but find out that's how it is nowadays Version does it too. Its bullshit. ****ing bullshit.

Do they have an option for you to pay via direct deposit or online with no fee?

Apparently, though I could have sworn before that there was a charge to do so, and that is why I opted for auto-mailed checks.

Exactly. These unholy ****s should not be able to charge a customer for paying them on time.

I think someone is missing the point. To some people $25 is movie night with the significant other or any number of other things. It is $300 a year which would help pay for vacation or part of a trip to watch Mahomes.
Another thing, If this company has 1,000 renters then it is an enormous raise in their monthly income.

It might be as easy as paying online to avoid the fee. He will just have to do a little research.

Someone probably saw your Star Wars posters and thought, “let’s charge this queef a bogus fee.”

/the end.

Yep, they saw a beta bitch.

I don't know how anyone could function without a bank account in todays world of automatic withdrawals and most places not accepting checks and honestly just paying bills online.

Just pay them in cash. If you want to get back at them, start paying with an assortment of 1 dollar bills and loose change.

The last company I rented from did something like this they added a massive fee for using your debit card to pay your rent online yet if you did "echeck" you didn't get a fee so it was ok in that regard just another hoop to jump through.

I have 0 automatic withdrawals . I still don't pay bills on line

Eh. If they jack the fees up sky high to force you into automatic withdrawls or online payment, they don't need to pay someone to collect a bunch of checks with Boba Fett on it.

As a landlord I always put a clause on the 42nd page of the lease that I have the right to **** you over at any time. I also will accept sex as partial payment based on gender and attractiveness. (NO guys and No fattys). Anal gets you an additional $5 discount.

Wow really? I haven't written a check in 10 years, and if you have things like hulu, netflix etc I dunno how you can not have automatic withdrawal.

Give them the number of that MILF from your dating thread and call it even.

Sucks Big Dicks housing

Irony. Jack's off pigs for a living for hog sperm but won't **** fatty.

Netflix gift cards. No hulu

Same feeling as watching a Chiefs playoff game.

Sounds like they are migrating away from check collecting/processing. As long as they offer you a no-charge e-option what's the issue?

Does his dick smell like shit?

I'm positive that is illegal for them to do that. Promptly tell them to go **** themselves and give them notice you are leaving at the end of you contract because of this .

and eat taco bell the last 5 days before leaving and don't flush the commode for that period. If the commode gets full shit in all the closets.


Edit ; Oh , and eat lots of beets so it turns your shit red, they won't mess with you then.

Did you ask them about the fee? Your bank could have returned your rent check when they deposited the check due to a bank error or funds not being available for withdrawal for when the check was presented. This is not saying you didn't have funds, these things happen. The landlords bank may have charged them a $25.00 fee for a returned check even though it was presented with the next deposit and paid.

Well now , that's a good point.

That's because making a payment with credit/debit actually costs a fee... We use the cheapest option in the business with Paypal Here and that costs 2.7% for swipe/tap/chip and 3.5% for keyed transactions. Most banks are far more expensive after all the fees get added up. It's easy to see why a company would charge $30+ on an electronic payment for average rent. It's kind of absurd to automatically charge it on cash/check payments even though there is some cost associated with that too. Perhaps they are doing e-check processing. Either way though, not in the lease is not in the lease.

Solid But Diarrhea.

LMAO

Most likely e check...passing entire cost onto the consumer. Lease agreement probably has a "fee" agreement. Pay in cash.

There's no fee agreement in the lease.

It's a paper check sent out by the bank, too.

Checks ****ing suck if you are a landlord. I've incurred about 6 bad checks in my time as a slumlord. I get charged for it, then have to worry about going back and getting the money again. It's a pain in the ass. I try to get them to pay me via Paypal or Venmo, if all possible. Cash with a receipt I give them. Then checks if they absolutely have to. Because people are pieces of shit with money.

With that said, total bullshit they add a check processing fee out of nowhere. If you wrote a bad check to them previously or something, and you never paid them their bounced check fee back, then I understand a little.

Any time I've gotten a bad check I just contact them and if they won't cooperate I just take the check to the county attorneys office and drop it off. I ALWAYS get my money plus a $30 fee from the county attorney.

That's the MILF charge

This.

i shiver at the thought of renting now. :cuss:

I wouldn't really want to deal with physical checks either.

Time to buy a house?

Mess with them and send them a few money orders.

Its a bunch of bullshit, mine did something similar but it was only $10. No way in hell it costs them $10 to process a check, much less $25. I was on month to month and they did give 30 days notice, so not much I could have done. If its not on your lease you should not have to pay it, the problem is if they want to be dicks about it and take it to court, that will likely be more than the damn fee.

Is your ass sore when you wake up? Then the answer is.........

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The "put you in a house", um, What the ****? I've not rented in 20 plus years, but back when I was young, nobody put me in a house. I found a house, checked it out, and if I liked it, then rented it.

Yeah poor choice of words. But you know, no way to know if an A/C is up to snuff in the spring before you sign a lease.

Ok gotcha. I thought maybe they "placed" you also. Anyhow, regarding the check fee, it seems that if there isn't a provision in the lease for such, then they can't do it. Checks are a pain in the ass though. Someone has to physically go to the bank to deposit them, so that is probably their "processing fee" idea.

People still use checks?

Who wants to be inconvenienced with going to the bank? I rarely have to go for anything and it’s great.

My bank prints the check for me and puts it in the mail. It's 2018.

Landlord seems nice.

If I receive a check, I take a picture of it with my bank's app and it's deposited almost immediately.

Now they're claiming they sent me an e-mail in April outlining a new check processing fee that would take effect in June.

LMAO

I just searched my G-mail and they certainly ****ing didn't.

What the hell do I say?

Like...even if I had received it...how does this change my responsibility at all?

Just quit paying them at all and squat.

**** you.

I call bullshit!!!!!

ATT has a kiosk that accepts cash in every location i have ever been in. Copy of receipt?

Seems like a not so subtle nudge to get tenants to pay using their online system.

Kind of like when the Chiefs tried to make Arrowhead entry "faster" by charging $60 for parking.

I have drafted a response for Chiefsplanet review.

But since you live in the getto...you deserve some ass reeming...

Didn't you brag about how great your landlord was? Specifically you that he mowed your grass when you were too lazy to do it.