https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 13 May 2026 05:31:04 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2065240 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:25:23 +0000 maddyz 2065240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Last place we had to get bank checks and they would pick them up. Those place we mail a check in the envelope left with the invoice every month. It feels so much easier. They did deposit our check for the wrong amount once. That was annoying. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2065205 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:01:37 +0000 Mrs.KMM 2065205@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All the apartments the DH and I have ever lived in have allowed us to pay online. But we don't live in an apartment anymore and I don't remember what services they used. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2065086 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:58:40 +0000 plantains 2065086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we rented, we did paper cheques. I never once had a landlord in NYC that accepted any other form of payment. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2065059 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:48:27 +0000 PurplePeony 2065059@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Always paper checks when I/we rented. One of the best things about buying a house was setting up automatic electronic payments! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2065039 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:29:26 +0000 sapphire 2065039@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our landlord lives next door. We drop a check off in their mailbox. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064940 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:50:31 +0000 littlejoy 2064940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: I wish we had that! We pay by check each month, and our landlords never cash until at least the 20th. Ugh. It's so frustrating. Our bank offers bill pay, but the funds would still be in limbo until our landlords cashed the check. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064850 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:20:57 +0000 Greentea 2064850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our last place was electronic, but here they charge you extra - so we have to hand deliver it to the company! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064816 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:09:31 +0000 psw27 2064816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we rented we had to write paper checks. It was so silly. I understood when I lived in smaller houses or places owned by a family but when I moved to a big complex I thought it was dumb. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064778 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:57:42 +0000 namaste 2064778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Paper checks and we usually drop them off at his workplace since it's 5 mins away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064763 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:55:36 +0000 MrsSCB 2064763@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LaughLines: I don't, I'm sorry :-( I just tried to figure it out on their website but didn't see any indicator if they're using an outside system. It might just be their own proprietary system. But we're basically just paying through our bank account. Like we registered our account on their resident website (which requires a login) using our routing and account numbers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064761 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:55:28 +0000 nana87 2064761@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Snail mail for the past 5 apts. one had an online option but was $75 more per month if we used it! F that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064759 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:54:31 +0000 Smurfette 2064759@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our renter has his bank send us a check each month. I deposit it with my phone so I don't have to go to the bank. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064758 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:53:56 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2064758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our bank (BofA) will send a check to anyone. So we just schedule bills for them to send the check to. It works great. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064749 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:51:04 +0000 chopsuey 2064749@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we paid electronically when we rented. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064736 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:47:51 +0000 LaughLines 2064736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: do you know what system they use? Is it a website?</p> <p>@bluestriped bee: I would love to use paypal, but we have a business that owns the rentals and my husband is an accountant, so we don't want to use the friends and family and get in trouble for not counting it as a business (since it is a legal business) and risk his CPA license... </p> <p>We're looking at some different websites... this seems like a good one:<br /> <a href="https://cozy.co/" rel="nofollow">https://cozy.co/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064735 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:47:29 +0000 Raindrop 2064735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I lived alone... gosh 8 years ago! I lived in a complex that only took checks... you had to put in this wooden box at the leasing office at the begining of the month. When DH and I started living together... his complex did it all electronic. I think it "depends". My complex was super old and his was pretty new. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064698 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:39:12 +0000 yoursilverlining 2064698@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>(Landlord). Our tenants pay via paper check, but they also have the option to pay via paypal. Though, if they pay via paypal and it charges me a fee, they are responsible for paying the fee (this is in our lease). I hate dealing with paper checks, but it is what it is. I wish there was a better service for this! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064673 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:29:14 +0000 mrs. bird 2064673@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He likes money orders, which is a giant PITA. There's a drop box in the building for them. It would be so much easier to pay online! I'd love that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064617 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:12:00 +0000 BSB 2064617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Paypal for me! Super easy! I think this is legal because we pick the 'friends &amp; family' option (no fees for either of us) and we aren't transferring goods. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064589 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:04:37 +0000 winniebee 2064589@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Snail mail. we weren't presented with another option! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064552 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:54:54 +0000 MrsSCB 2064552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Electronically. They have an online system. Our last place required paper checks and we were SO bad about remembering to write a check and drop it in the box for rent. Like sometimes we wouldn't even get around to it until mid-month. Yet they never complained to us....I bet they didn't even check the box right away, haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064546 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:52:41 +0000 loveisstrange 2064546@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we did, we did it online. Far prefer it that way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064541 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:50:51 +0000 MenagerieMama 2064541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Online bill pay through my credit union. Electronic for me but my landlords still get a check in the mail. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064516 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:41:38 +0000 LaughLines 2064516@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh man i'm surprised by how many pay with paper checks!!! </p> <p>I'm a landlord and HATE paper checks because then i have to go to the bank (though recently my bank added an app that i can just take a picture of... but doesn't work with every kind of check). </p> <p>We had online rent pay through a company intuit owns, and most of our tenants paid through that. But we just got an email that it is being discontinued :( I was hoping there'd be some other options out there but i'm not finding much while googling.... Seems like it should be easier to get a service like that, but it's not! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064492 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:36:17 +0000 avivoca 2064492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Paper for all our apartments. Now that I own, I've started paying online, but only since having the baby. It feels weird to not send a check! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064483 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:34:12 +0000 thismustbetheplace 2064483@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both? Haha. We have it electronically set up through our bank (online bill pay).. they draft a check and mail it to our landlord automatically each month. In all previous apartments we had to hand deliver checks. I wish more landlords would get with the program and accept debit cards! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064481 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:33:56 +0000 MediaNaranja 2064481@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've always paid with a paper check. I've always lived in apartments owned by an individual vs. a managed complex. In one case my landlord requested cash, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064480 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:33:08 +0000 YouGotMe 2064480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Old building I paid by visa or debit. This apartment is a smaller company so they only take paper cheques. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064475 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:32:35 +0000 lamariniere 2064475@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Automatic debit. Checks do not exist here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-pay-rent-do-you-pay-electronically-or-snail-mail#post-2064471 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:31:10 +0000 mrsjazz 2064471@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Paper checks/snail mail! This is the only check I write. I just had to order new checks this year, for the first time since I opened my account in 2001 :) </p>