Unjustified NSF Remark, and now I can't get an apartment

[Dovid Staples]

Hello BP!

I have been renting and apartment in a complex. I had been signed up for automatic payments for the rent to be taken directly out of my bank account every month. It says specifically in the leasing agreement that if the payment can't be processed two times then the auto payments are canceled. 

Well lo-and-behold during my lease I had gotten laid off and twice didn't have sufficient funds so the service was canceled. I own that. 

On the last month of my lease I got an email saying "thank you for your payment". I thought that was odd, I wasn't on auto payments anymore. I had the money for rent, but in a different account. I saw no changes in my bank and thought nothing of it - until I applied to another place. Turns out they went ahead and tried to run my account and generated a third NSF remark on my rental history! What can I do about this? The clock is ticking!