All Forum Posts by: Bob Romano

@Thomas S. great advise Thomas! I am just waiting to hear from Cozy to see if the auto debit goes threw on the 13th. It says it takes 6 days to hit my account. He set it up on the 7th.

I only charged him after cozy told me he had insufficient funds.

@David Avetisyan He is living there, not subleasing.

he gave me his email address, which is a gmail account , but it takes days for him to get back to me because he says himself" I don't check this account much". Why would you give me an account you don't check often?  He is set up on Cozy with me for payment of the rent. He knows the rent is due on the 1st, with a $50 late fee as of the 5th. So he goes on Cozy on the 4th to process the payment. Well, I hit him with my $50 late fee because the lease states " i must have payment in hand by the 5th" and then he refuses to pay the late fee! So when Cozy tries to hit his account 4-5 days later for payment, its insufficient! So now he has to pay the late fee . But this month he says he is only paying the rent amount and no late fee because in his mind, he wasn't late, he's blaming Cozy for the amount being late.Should I enforce it or let it slide this month? I fi let it slide, I feel he will try this every month now. Any thoughts?

My tenants phone has been working fine until the first month he took residence. Since then he has been consistently late by a few weeks for the rent.  Now I call it and it goes right to vm. I went to the house to tell him this and he said" his phone is being fixed and he had to send it out for repair" . well 3 weeks later , it still does not work. Now who waits 3 weeks for their phone to be repaired? I keep trying to call his wife's phone, she never answers' either. I sent him an email yesterday stating I need a new contact number and have not heard back yet. What would you guys do?

tenant ended up paying my cash for Jan . He is in the process of setting up auto payment on line for Feb. he tried imputing a debit card for payment and he asked if I pay the 3% transaction fee. Told him no that’s his responsibility since he chooses to use debit. 

I charge $35 for each person that's going on the lease. If they push back, they don't really want the place. 

Hi mike, it states in my lease that he would have to pay legal fees , but my lawyer said “ don’t count on it” they never do. I will happy with just getting him to leave. 

Thanks Todd, I met with my lawyer today, we are serving him tomorrow. My theory is why wait for him to be 3-4 months behind? My lawyer said I’m doing the right thing by acting fast and swift. I’m not chasing this guy every month. 

So true Anthony, I know what you mean about "unchecked" , That's why I'm so pissed because I should have known better and dug deeper into his paperwork.