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Can my landlord charge me a late fee because my check bounced. Technically I paid my rent the 28th~ on time.
If the check bounced, you didn't pay your rent and you owe the late fees.
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Also if she can charge me a late fee, I have read that late fees are illegal in CA but also read that they are legal if reasonable. So if they are legal is $225 reasonable.
You'd have to take her to court and have a judge decide.
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Also she is saying the late fee is racking up until my check clears. Not when I deposited the money into her account. Can she do that? It's not up to me how long her bank takes to process my check
Yes, she can do that. Each passing day in which your payment is not credited to her account is another day of unpaid/late rent.
What she cannot do is pass through her own bank fees to you. She pays those with the late fees and nsf fee she collects from you.
You had to resurrect a thread which finished well over two years ago to make a point?
There is nothing wrong with reviving old threads, No one forced you to read it or respond.
I am a landlord and I charge $25 per day as a late fee and all costs associated as a result of a bad check, we collect on. On another note we put in our contracts that any tenant who is late more than one time will automatically be served with an eviction notice. We do not put up with tenants being late at all. Zero tolerance for deadbeats.
That was rather sarcastic STT Resident.
I'll remember to try and not annoy you in the future.
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There is nothing wrong with reviving old threads, No one forced you to read it or respond.
The only problem with reviving old threads is that it's very easy to read two and more pages before realizing that the thread is very old and has been revived with a new question that often bears only a slight resemblance to the original.
If you're NOT the type who reads threads from the beginning but only the title, you may jump to a response and post something which has nothing to do with the last post which was the revival.
Yeah, the thread is old, but I haven't seen anyone point this out:
Since when are late fees charged up until the day the check clears? I've never heard of that, and it's unreasonable. Once you deposit the check, you're done. It's paid (if it doesn't bounce). If the check takes several days to clear, too bad, it's not the tenant's problem.
Funny how a landlord criticizes the tenant for bouncing a check while writing a bunch of hot checks herself ("hot check" defined as writing a check when you don't have the money *in* your account, not *should be*, actually IN the account).
Yeah, the thread is old, but I haven't seen anyone point this out:
Since when are late fees charged up until the day the check clears? I've never heard of that, and it's unreasonable. Once you deposit the check, you're done. It's paid (if it doesn't bounce). If the check takes several days to clear, too bad, it's not the tenant's problem.
Funny how a landlord criticizes the tenant for bouncing a check while writing a bunch of hot checks herself ("hot check" defined as writing a check when you don't have the money *in* your account, not *should be*, actually IN the account).
Excellent point.
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