Charge a fee for delivering 5 day pay or quit notice?

[Ryan B.]

Ok so filling out and delivering pay or quit notices is not tough but more so just annoying. I have thought about adding to my lease a fee for filling out and delivering these. It is about a 50 mile round trip. I write the mileage off but the fee would be more so for my time delivering it.

Does anyone else do this? If so how much do you charge?

P.S. Tenants are already on the hook for $50 late fee, do you think this would kind of be double dinging them?

[Kelly N.]

I don't know what the rules are in your state, but one option we have is to use the US mail.  We have a 7 day pay or quite notice, using the mail adds only one day (might take 2 days but the day after you mail it is what the court considers the first day of the 7 day period.  I only have an 18 miles round trip but no guarantee the delinquent tenant will be there when I try to deliver the notice and you can't just leave it taped to the door.  

I don't charge for the pay or quit notice, they are already on the hook for the late fee at this point like you said.  It is not their fault you are 50 miles away ;)