Re: Tenant lied about paying rent - Landlord Forum thread 360325

Re: Tenant lied about paying rent by Garry on March 2, 2020 @20:44

I always accept cash. I prefer it over any other monetary instrument. But I always have a receipt book with me, to give the tenant a receipt for that money. It carbon copies to a yellow receipt copy, that I keep for my records, and the T gets the white copy.

When you go to court for the eviction, your T will need to produce some sort of proof that they paid rent. A judge probably will not take a witnesses account of the rent being paid. Nobody has 2 ""witnesses" to watch somebody paying a LL rent. Go to court and hope for the best.

NOBODY lets a tenant get 5 months behind in rent. If you can't manage your business properly, either hire a management company to do it for you, or sell all your properties, and get out of the landlording business.

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