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Anon needs to pay the rent (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] archon@sh.itjust.works 83 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Is it normal to pay cash for rent in the US? I've always done it by bank transfer, set up to pay automatically on the agreed date..

Seems like a great way to perform tax fraud.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Probably a check. If this was a while ago or a smaller landlord that just doesn't have a fancypants website with a payment portal they probably have to drop a check off at their office each month. I had to do that in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty one before I got my house

Edit to add: the lowish rent definitely supports either reason too. Small towns most businesses have no web presence beyond a Facebook page or maybe some static html made by the local computer place 5-15 years ago that they haven't updated since then because they aren't seeing the value in spending money to update it. It really is like going back in time technologically a good 15 years living in a small town

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

For almost the first year I lived there I paid rent in person by cheque to a management company office. It was a midtown manhatten apartment in a nice ish building less than a decade ago. They also forgot to cash the bankers draft I had written up for my deposit (five fucking figures that they just didn't notice for years). Real Estate has a surprising number of absolute clowns still for some reason. I guess because it's been easy money for asset owners so they chaff wasn't being squeezed out.

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