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Marvin Meng
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Electronic payment methods

Marvin Meng
  • Investor
  • Edwardsville, IL
Posted

Hi BPers! 

I've posted this question before and never did anything with it but I figure maybe the information has changed anyway. I still use the mom&pop rent collection method (mailing checks). But since most of our tenants are under the age of 90 they would probably prefer a 21st Century solution. What methods do you use to collect rent and (if you don't mind sharing) what are some of the pros and cons of those methods?

I was looking into Venmo but if I understand correctly a defaulting tenant can use it to pay any amount ($1.00 for instance) thus forestalling foreclosure indefinitely. Is that accurate and if so are there solutions?

Thank you!

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    William Sing
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    William Sing
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    I use apartments.com since it is free and was able to get a lot of the features I wanted in there. I've used it for my current units but if you have more units I have seen RentRedi and Buildium a lot. 

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