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Rent collection - safe collection methods
For making rent payment, tenant prefers to use Paypal with a business transfer (and not a person to person) option and Paypal charges a fee for that. To avoid that I suggested that they can make rent payments through direct bank deposit, which they are okay with.
Tenant said they can either do a wire transfer or ACH transfer.
Are there any downsides to giving the bank account # and having them make rent payments directly? I read on the forums, it's better to create a new account and provide that account # and immediacy transferring the amount to a different account once rent comes in, so as to not leave a balance.
I don't have cozy or any other account.