Moral of the story is no security deposit and no first month's rent, no contract and no keys, I don't stop advertising and showing until I have the money in the bank.
Some people think landlords are scum and they are justified in scamming all of them. Some people are just stupid and selfish and don't care if what they do impacts other people.
Doing credit, background checks, reference checks, surprise visits to their current residence ("Hi, I forgot to give you this piece of paper") to check out their REAL living conditions, etc all help mitigate it, but sometimes you still get one.
I knew the one that stole our fridge was more risky, but we thought we'd be nice and give her a chance. So much for that.
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Originally Posted by Sample00
cash the damage deposit cheque as well. wait for it to come back NSF (maybe), then when you have both NSF cheques back, take them to your bank and have them send it out on collections. They will send it to the branch that its drawn on or their processing centre and the bank will check each day to see if it can certify the funds. this may cost you 15-30 dollars to do. cheques are good for 6 months from date of issue. this is how long the bank will hold on to the cheque for and try to certify it. you might get lucky that he has direct deposit pay and then you can collect.
secondly you might get lucky that he forgets about it and then deposits money into that account and the bank will snafooo it.
good luck.
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When you say "send the two NSF cheques to collections", do you mean the bank's collections, or a collections agency? And do you mean the other cheques he has, or the NSF cheques themselves? If a cheque has already been returned NSF, doesn't that mean it's done and can't be used again? And doesn't the NSF cheque get returned to the person? Sorry, this is slighty different than the time I did it so would like to know so I can use this in the future
