I requested for the last month’s rent upon signing the lease which is for the month of September.  

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

It usually takes a few minutes for your account to be verified at sign up before posting on the forums. 

My brain want's to automatically assume rents were not collected, not that they were just sitting on your $$$$ because that, wow, that's a BIG problem and a VERY bad sign of things if that's the case. 

Don’t sign a loan agreement until you fully understand the terms of the loan.Only Sign a Fully Completed Contract: ever sign a loan agreement that contains blank spaces where information should be entered.

The only thing I can add is that she signed the lease on my behalf- the realtor was trying to send me a document for electronic signature, but I couldn’t open it at work, so the realtor sent the document to this person and she put my signature on.

Maybe you could ask her to sign a lease addendum advising her that her ex lives in the building and asking her to certify there are no restraining orders and such limitations on either on either of them to her knowledge.

I use Turbotenant for collecting rent and electronic lease signing and it's been great.

We found a buyer, got the contract signed, and were just days away from closing.

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