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How should we handle this landlord/rent issue?
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February 27th, 2012
I live in a house with 4 other people. We send our landlord one check, issued by my boyfriend’s bank. It’s an online bank, so they send the check directly rather than us writing a paper check and mailing it.
Our landlord called yesterday to say he never got February’s rent and would be charging a $100 late fee. We checked with the bank, and they said they had definitely sent the check on February 1 and offered to do a three way call with the landlord to tell him.
We do not want to piss off the landlord and are willing to pay the $100. So I guess we could just do that and be done with it. But paying for it when it was not our mistake doesn’t feel right to me, and it seems like an admission of guilt. It seems entirely plausible to me that this guy got the check, lost it, and forgot about it.
How should we handle this?
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