XxAxX said:

I have to write checks for rent and my car insurance. Everything else is online or my debit card.

Oh, and I need to write checks at Target.

I moved into the apartemnt I'm living almost 2 years ago and the checks I have still have my old address on them.

CalhounSq said:

CarrieMpls said:

THAT'S funny!

madartista said:

I know, but it's for my discount. I'm trying my best not to charge anything else on my Target Visa and I don't get my discount by using any other form of payment.

CarrieMpls said:

Target discount:

I closed my naughty Target account this year. A Target card was not safe in my wallet. Destruction was the only option.

madartista said:

My Target Visa is in my desk drawer at home. I'm not allowed to carry it around anymore.

CarrieMpls said:

I used to work at Target during college, and then Mervyns headquarters after college! I LOVED my Target discount!

CalhounSq said:

I've been doing the same... was trying to use up a box of checks that had an outdated address printed on them. Now that they're all gone, I suppose I should go back to paying my bills online, but I've been too lazy to update all the information stored in my bank's online bill payment system.

matt said:

Lasy Ass MoFo

Anx said:

There are some landlords who accept credit cards... I wish I could put my rent on my Northwest Airlines Visa card, as I'd get a ton of frequent flyer miles that way.

About people who wait before cashing checks... I sent checks to my brothers as holiday gifts, and both of them waited so long that I had to tell them about checks going "stale" after six months under the Uniform Commercial Code. (A bank can choose whether to pay a stale check, and mine says they won't.) I don't get it... they're both students... when I was one (and always low on cash), I'd cash any check I received ASAP.

I have to write cheques for certain things.. like Housing Management, work on my place and other things..









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Well, because of this thread, I was going to return to the 21st century and pay the water/sewer bill through my bank's online bill payment system... but it's not working right now. So... back to the checkbook and stamps.

I always use checks. Don't have a debit card, never had one, don't really want one. I'm sure it's convenient. But the money goes fast enough with checks even though it takes a while to write them. I don't need it flowing any faster with a card.

I have never written a check in my life, lol!

They are totally redundant for me, I have no use for them.

I pay bills via b-pay online, straight from my bank account, simple and immediate.

Diva said:

You can do all our bill-paying then!

I like my checks.

Moonbeam said:

lol, you'll get over your check fascination, in time.

matt said:

I can't believe that you pay four trillion dollars in rent and it doesn't cover your freakin' water/sewer bill!

HereToRockYourWorld said:

Yes, I was a bit surprised. At every other apartment I've had, the rent included water (hot and cold) and sewer. Here we have to pay for it, as well as a $4.00 monthly service fee to the private company that handles the "submetering" and billing.

However... the former resident manager made a mistake in preparing my lease, and thanks to some basic rules of contract interpretation, he accidently made the landlord responsible for my cold water. A few months later, when I realized what was going on, I sent a polite lawyer letter to the landlord explaining their screw-up, with a few citations to Washington state case law. The result? They credited my account for all the money I'd previously paid for cold water, and until my current lease runs out, I'm no longer getting billed for cold water.

matt said:

Oh my gawd, you're such an ass.

Well, that's the hazard of leasing to lawyers, I suppose.

Yeah, at my cheapo apartment, my utility bills amount to about $8 per month. It's awesome.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

Actually, I thought the tone of my letter was quite amicable. I stressed that: 1) I've been very happy living there; and 2) when my current lease runs out, I won't have a problem with accepting responsibility for the cold water bill. The only reason I typed the magic words "Attorney at Law" beneath my name was to indicate that I knew what I was talking about.

My take on it is this: the lease that I signed is "the deal." There is no other. If I misunderstood something in the lease, didn't read something, etc., their response would probably be, "Too bad. You signed a lease, and you're bound by its terms."

Well, guess what? It works both ways.



Funny you should mention that... I don't know about lawyers, but there are landlords who won't rent to law students. Other students (or at least, other graduate students) are okay... just no law students. Maybe they're worried about overeager first-year students who just finished studying landlord-tenant law in their Property class.

Oh, BTW, when I was signing the lease paperwork, the resident manager said that most of the tenants are lawyers, doctors, and Microsoft employees. He (incorrectly) guessed that I was in the third category.

matt said:

And you are just realizing this

HereToRockYourWorld said:

Thats what I'm fuckin talking bout

matt said:

Microsoft employees.

notoriousj said:

Nope.

Look, I knew he was a diva bitch from the beginning. It's part of his charm. It's just that to people who don't know him personally, "charm" looks a lot like being an "ass".

Anx said:

AMEN to that! I only pay rent and car payment w/checks, and it kills me to do that.

i can't be the only who still goes to the grocery store late Wednesday night or Thursday...and stock up without a lick of $$ in the bank and write a check because I know it won't go through until payday on Friday...

I know I'm not alone

matt said:

Thats cause you have computer wrote all over your face

sheeplikeone said:

Back in the 1970s, when money was pretty tight for my parents, my dad spent some time figuring out exactly when the supermarket took checks to their bank for deposit and how long it took for a check to reach my parents' bank. (The check-clearing system was somewhat slower back then.) He must have done a pretty good job, because AFAIK none of those checks ever bounced.