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Updated about 5 years ago, 11/29/2019
Big problem tenant is threatening....again
I have a huge problem tenant.....I'm not going to go into all of the details.
Anyway, there are 3 ways for tenants to pay the rent: Give it to me in person (because I used to live half a block from the creative community, where I own 10 units), pay via zelle or go to any Wells Fargo and deposit into the rent account.
Tenant seemed to have closed her own bank account it seems, since she used to use Zelle. Now she's asking me for my address to mail the rent. I told her that she can submit to any Wells Fargo. She then wrote that she's already left town and there's a money order in her unit. I responded that I would not enter her unit (as she has previously set me up with the code enforcement officer and then tried to extort me, saying that she just wants to see me in front of a judge, unless I can offer her some incentive to not go to court). So, I won't enter her unit. She wrote back:"Thanks for your help, b*tch!" It's illegal to not give the address to a tenant.
Is that so? If I were to open a P.O.Box today, just for her, would that be enough? I really don't want her to mail the rent (plus it doesn't make sense that there's supposedly a money order in her unit and she's out of town and wants to mail another money order to me?" I know she has to be back in town for her trial, which starts Dec 2nd, so, there's no reason for her to do this, unless she's trying to set me up in some way.
Sorry for the longwinded back story: Do I need to offer her my physical address and can she insist on mailing rent, when she can deposit at any Wells Fargo? I don't want rent mailed to me, because it's too easy for tenant to say that they mailed, but I didn't receive . I also don't want to open a P.O.Box. unless I have to.