Question for people who rent...

Do you pay your rent on time? Is there a late fee if you do not?

Thanks!

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I don't rent anymore, but when i did, it was always either on the 1st or within a day.

Most places i rented gave you a 3-5 day grace period and then you were charged a daily fee for every day you were late after that.

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We are the worst with paying rent on time. Luckily for DH & I, my parents are our landlord.

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If ours is more than a week late its $35

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I've been living in my apartment for almost a year and a half and I ALWAYS pay on the 1st of the month. There was maybe once or twice that I was forced to wait til the 2nd or 3rd because my landlord and his family went away so I paid them when they returned.

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when we were in private house, it was in before the 1st - usually the 30th or 31st. rent was delivered in person.

in a complex (rent needs to be mailed to a payment center), i always mail the check the thursday of the week of the 1st. ex: this month, the 1st was Wed, i mailed it on thurs the 2nd. it'll hit my bank today. It's not "late" until after the 10th.

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I used to live in a co-op and I had until the 5th to pay... otherwise it was a 25.00 fee.
(doubled for every 5 days you were late)

Now I live in a 3 story walk up with my landlord on the first floor. I just paid him yesterday. No fee. But I don't plan on being a day late again.

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No fee but I chose mostly on time because I'mt not paying rent this month until some work is done - I've been inconvenienced for 4 months and have had it

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When I did rent it was always early.

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Don't rent anymore either but when we did, we either paid on the actual day or before. NEVER after.

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I don't now but when I did, I was always on time. I had to mail the check from Long Beach to Roslyn and always sent it at least four days early.

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We are pretty friendly with our landlord. She told me she DOESNT need it exactly ont he first. I pay her within a few days-someitmes the first, but sometimes the 3rd. I pay her cash.

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We get a ten days to send it in without penalty. Only once was it later than that because I made the check to cash and they don't accept them Super annoying.

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If I dont pay by the 3rd I have to pay $35 late fee

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If we pay after the 5th there is a $50 late fee. We have been here for a year and I have never received a late fee.

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when we used to rent, we always paid early.
in our lease, it said that if were late (i think it was 3-5 days?) we had to pay a late fee of $25

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when we did rent, it was ALWAYS on time. i wouldnt want my renters paying me late

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We don't rent, but we do have renters. Unfortunately, and fortunately, they are friends so we have dealt with some payment issues through the years (been here almost 4 years.)

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Always on time -- knock one wood!


Just one time we had to pay a few days late, and that was because of an issue with DH's paycheck not being deposited in the right account and it was delayed.

I was so embarrassed because I didn't want our landlord to think we were deadbeats or something.

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Posted by MrsPJB2007



I was so embarrassed because I didn't want our landlord to think we were deadbeats or something.

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Posted by KerriSteve


Deadbeat= having your 14 year old son call us to say you don't have the rent month after month, lying about how your "boss" owes you thousands of dollars, oh and making the 14 year old get a job (god only knows where) to help pay the rent when you and your wife don't work. It's a very sad situation actually.

So don't be embarrassed!

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We rent a house, and our last rental was a house too. We pay when they come to pick it up. We always have it on hand the day it is due, its a matter of the landlord coming for it. At our old house, the rent was due the 1st and the girl was never around, so we would wait til she came to our house to get it usually by the 7th she would come around looking for it. We had no late fee there. Our new place the guy is supposed to come on the 15th each month. I think it says something about a late fee after 5 days late in our lease, but we always have it when it is due.

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I have to be honest most of the time I'm a few days late (but I've been living where DH and I are at for over 20 years so I have a nice friendship with the people in the management office).

I've never been charged a late fee even though they can do that legally to me, but when we move in October to a new apartment, I'm going to make it a point to pay exactly on time since I'm not going to have that same courtesy extended to me.

The only reason why we're late btw, is because of the pay cycle we're both on (every two weeks). So it kind of sucks having part of the rent and not wanting to deplete your savings over the other half.

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we always did.

our "due date" was the first of the month with a grace period until the 5th