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Latest you've ever paid for rent?
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UnluckyKate
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I never had too. My parents were paying for me. It was something new for me and I just forgot.
Well, I have a five day grace period, so technically I've never been late, but I usually pay two days 'late' so I can make sure the money is in the account and nothing crazy has happened.
Now, the electric bill I just paid ended up being a little over a month late. Didn't realize I didn't pay it last month and paid it with the current bill. They never even sent an email letting me know I was late.
Now, the electric bill I just paid ended up being a little over a month late. Didn't realize I didn't pay it last month and paid it with the current bill. They never even sent an email letting me know I was late.
My landlord was like that. She didn't even check to see if I was paying rent until I moved out. Sometimes I'd just skip a few months and then pay 3 or 4 at once.
West Virginia. Similar thing happened to me in Baltimore as well after a few days late when I was going through a tough time there.
Obviously, I called the landlord in both situations and explained I had full intention of paying and was going through a tough time and in both cases they said the notice was more of a formality than anything else, luckily, and as long as the money arrived when I said I would pay there would be no further action.
mhayes86
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My apartment complex allows a 5-day grace period, so basically by the 5th of the next month. It's also nice that my apartment complex allows online payments with no additional fee.
Fortunately, I've never been late... I know people who lived paycheck to paycheck and have been evicted a few times due to late payments, so I hope to never have to go through with that.
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If I had the option, I would. Personally, I've not dealt with a place that had direct debit. Hell, very few places I've come across have an online payment option, let alone one that doesn't charge extra for using it instead of a check.
Fortunately, I've never been late... I know people who lived paycheck to paycheck and have been evicted a few times due to late payments, so I hope to never have to go through with that.
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If I had the option, I would. Personally, I've not dealt with a place that had direct debit. Hell, very few places I've come across have an online payment option, let alone one that doesn't charge extra for using it instead of a check.
blast0rama
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Rent is due on the 1st, with a 5 day leeway.
One month, the first fell on a weekend day, and I had a busy week. Ended up paying the day after it was due. Still got a threatening notice from the leasing office, even though it was paid by then, but it was the most I'd ever shit bricks in my adult life.
One month, the first fell on a weekend day, and I had a busy week. Ended up paying the day after it was due. Still got a threatening notice from the leasing office, even though it was paid by then, but it was the most I'd ever shit bricks in my adult life.
SliceSabre
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Two days 'late'.
Rent is due on the 1st of the month but isn't late till after the 3rd. Not paid later than the 3rd.
Rent is due on the 1st of the month but isn't late till after the 3rd. Not paid later than the 3rd.
I went away for a long weekend and forgot the month changed, and missed paying rent. I got a letter saying I was being fined for missing payment, and went down to the office angry as hell because I knew I had paid last month. It wasn't until I saw the big calendar in the office I realized I was seconds away from making an idiot of myself.
RageWaffles
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A month. They only accept checks or money orders, and they lost my check once and didn't tell me they didn't get it until the end of the month. I was very surprised that they didn't try to charge me any fees; they do charge if I'm more than 5 days late, which I have been a couple times.
gutter_trash
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I never paid rent in my life, I never missed a mortgage payment or missed a condo fee payment. Got my mortgage payments automized and I give out a series of 12 checks for my condo fees per year
Rent is pretty much the only thing people in the US use checks for anymore. Except old people, who use checks for everything.
Almost every utility/loan allows auto pay, but for whatever reason most landlords don't.
Risible
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Risible
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Why on earth would anyone rent out places then? Are or you exaggerating?
Two weeks. I was visiting my parents over the summer and for some reason thought I had payed already. Realized it before the landlord made a fuss and payed immediately followed by an apologetic e-mail and phone call. Wasn't really an issue, although they froze my place in the apartment queue system which was a bit hairy (it's a student apartment, I didn't plan on moving anytime soon anyway but it's nice to have the option), but I got unfrozen as soon as the payment cleared.
Ivan Amiibo
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i have a 10 day window after the 1st to pay in the states.
again, different laws in different states/counties/cities
I still owe part of February...
Lightning Count
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Latest for me is literally having to pay it in cash the day it was due because of a banking error.
Phat Michael
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We have to pay a full year in advance here so nothing I can really do but pay the full thing in one hit then renew it at the end of the year.
Because most tenants don't know, or are decent enough people not to screw over landlords. Here is how it works in Ontario.
If the tenant is late to pay rent the landlord issues an N4. This gives the tenant 14 days to pay rent. If they fail to pay rent by that date the landlord can file a notice to evict ($100 +). A hearing is scheduled (typically takes about 2 months). The hearing will rule in favor of the landlord or the tenant. If in favor of the landlord, the tenant is supposed to evict. At this point you're 2-3 months into the process, with no rent. The ruling at the hearing is not entirely binding, if you want that rent you'd have to go to small claims court. If the tenant pays rent anytime during this process, it restarts.
Not a great job of explaining, the process is OK it's just impossible to get rent from tenants if they continually play the system. Landlords can never ever force a tenant out of a unit. Many times this process can be dragged out over months and months even years.
djplaeskool
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Three days, I started a new job a few weeks before and they screwed up my direct deposit details and payday was supposed to be Friday, so I had to get a physical pay check on Monday and wait for it to post.
ImpalingNarwhal
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I once had a $4 overcharge for a light bulb misappropriated as my rent. They called me only one day after it was due, but we got it all sorted out.
The Albatross
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Longest was probably about 3 or 4 days, and similar to the OP, waiting for my paycheck to come in. Likewise, we were good tenants and I always let my landlord know "Hey, Joe, I'm not getting paid until Thursday so I'll have the check to you on the 4th instead of the 1st.." and he was always fine with it.
The Albatross
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This is very similar in many cities in the United States, where landlords basically can't do anything if the tenant doesn't want to pay.
There was a thread a couple days ago about a Gaffer looking to own rental properties, and another Gaffer told him how he's hasn't been paid rent in almost a year from his tenant, is in the middle of the eviction process, and is likely to not see any of it.
Reminds me of my friend's grandmother who rented her family home in the city we live in but she lived in an apartment somewhere else. She was renting her apartment to a couple that paid rent once, the first month, and then didn't pay again after that, and they lived their for a year and a half before they were finally evicted, and she never received anything after that first month. They then spraypainted the interior of her house when they were finally evicted. Pretty disgusting. She brought them to small claims court and got them for like $80, the cost of a couple buckets of paint to paint over the damage they did to the inside of the house.
EvoMaldonado
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Been late with dumb credit card bills but never late for rent.
disappeared
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Going on two years now. Granted I don't live there anymore.
These days I'm usually a week behind. My apartment just dings me $25 for being late.
These days I'm usually a week behind. My apartment just dings me $25 for being late.
metalslimer
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2 weeks a couple of times. It's hard living paycheck to paycheck as a student
Allforce
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I had a buddy who was skipping paying rent every other month just due to financial issues, basically the owner of the building just was an unorganized mess and never called him on it so he didn't care. I told him that shit was going to catch up to him and lo and behold like 3-4 years later, the landlord turned the operation over to his son who went through the books and he had something like 6-7K in back rent to catch up on.
I get that when times are tough you do what you can but my buddy is in his late 30's and didn't think this stuff would ever catch up to him.
I get that when times are tough you do what you can but my buddy is in his late 30's and didn't think this stuff would ever catch up to him.
Dude just didn't care
NerdEyeBlind
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6th of the month. Landlords were absolutely scumbags so I didn't feel that bad
About a week. The landlady was perfectly fine with it, thankfully. That was a rare occurrence - I usually pay on time. Though there have been the odd times where I was a day or two late - again, the landlady/landlord (depending on where we've been living for the past few years) have had no issues with it.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
My current place allows payment to be 10 days "late" with no consequence (i.e. rent is due anywhere from the 1st to the 10th) so I'm happy paying it on the 9th or 10th 
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