Cash, money order, electronic payment.

Even a text from them saying they have vacated should be fine for legal notice, as electronic communications are accepted in most states now.If their phone is still working, they should respond when they see you can keep charging them rent.

I would like to go electronic but my tenants are resistant.One tenant banks with Chase (as do I).

I don't just want the rent to come in automagically and electronically, I want the application fee, the security deposit and any other $ to follow the same path.  

If the place is indeed empty (no food, clothing, medications, personal electronics, etc.), and the father himself has turned off the utilities, it's considered abandoned.

That way the tenant will have a working detector so long as they do not confiscate the batteries to power their electronic toys  :)

The bank never should have deducted the money from the tenant's account in the first place.These days, there are electronic copies of all checks online, so the bank should have no trouble verifying their mistake.

We've been slowly, but steadily, moving to electronic locks which we can manage remotely and if necessary, audit the access history.

I would switch to an electronic method of collecting rent or add a rent drop box to your porch; leave maintenance requests outside your door.  

My question is to landlords who have installed electronic or push button locks on 3 families.