What to do when your lanlord won't fix something.....

Pay rent in pres dollars. We'll see if it works


If not I think I'll do halves then quarters and so on since my phone calls aren't seeming to carch his attention...hopefully this will



What's your story of using coins in a situation to cause something?

 

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Oh dear. Someone's got a bug up........

 

wanted to use coins to pay for my divorce but then i would have had to count them because she would of had trouble after 20 :devil: just thought of something make sure you get a receipt coin counters are not always correct. love the idea

 

Devil you.......

 

That is genius! I can't stop laughing! Wish I had thought of something like that when I lived in my old apartment in San Antonio!!!

 

I would definitely not try to antagonize your landlord. Didyou submit the repair requests in writing? If a repair is needed because your unit is uninhabitable or because of a safety issue, that is against the law. If the repair is is for a minor issue or cosmetic, and he / she will not make the repairs; I believe small claims court is your only option (besides living withthe issue). Maybe LoneGun can chime in.

 

Depends on your state laws. When I used to rent the landlord had like 14 days to fix the problem and if they didn't we could have it fixed ourselves. After which we could then deduct the repair costs from our rent payment legally.

 

Lmao Daniel! That's awesome.

I got into with a late night, not-so-good english speaking, gas station attendant.
He refused to take my prez dollars. I ranted about it being legal tender, blah blah. I have no idea if he understood what I was saying.
Conversely, I have no idea what he was saying.
Whatever...

 

I agree, but sure is funny. :yes:

 

A lot of leases have how payment will be issued written in. Personal check, cashier’s check, money order, ect…

 

Up where, dare I ask. J/K, I couldn't resist.

 

I have been on both sides, renter years ago and landlord not so long ago. As a renter down in Texas I had issues with hot water etc that kept recurring - they never really did get the water more than lukewarm and I just ended up moving out.

I owned properties in Cali up until a few years ago and rented them out, I am fortunate that I had a good agent working for me out there and reliable renters. Sure maintenance did come up as always, but having been on the renting end I took care of them as expeditiously as possible.

 

Ironically, if I were your landlord, I would fall in love with you.

 

If a renter did that to me, they would get any deposit back in cents.

 

I saw a video on youtube where a kid paid a vehicle towing service entirely in cents. The police forced the owner to accept the payment after some back and forth. But I think in truth and law, merchants/businesses can refuse to accept any form of payment, if they so wish. But then I think that opens them up to not getting paid because they refused to accept a good faith offer to settle the debt/contract. I think that's right, wait, now I'm confused. LOL.

 

While it's all legal tender, I think there's a little loophole in there that basically says they have to accept it unless it causes them major harm to do so. For instance I heard the story circulating that Samsung had paid Apple their billions of dollars of settlements in truckloads of coins. While that is funny and technically legal, that's a case where it would cause harm for Apple to have to take that payment given the sheer volume of it, and they could refuse.

I love the idea and got a good laugh out of a couple of your stories. At the least it should get their attention and cause them to do something, hopefully.

 

In the typical pay-before-you-pump situation at a gas station, the "legal tender" issue is not an issue, and he had no legal obligation to take your payment in coins, because you didn't have a "debt, public or private".

On the other hand, if the gas had already been pumped before you tendered payment, and he refused to take "legal tender", you could not be successfully prosecuted for leaving the coins behind, and driving away - providing you had a good lawyer.

 

A word of warning from a retired bank lawyer - NEVER rely on urban legends about legal issues to guide your conduct.

As the linked Snopes.com article points out - Among the many problems with that story, thousands of trucks, not 30, would have been needed to haul the 220-million pounds of virtually every nickel in circulation comprising a billion dollars.

 

Indeed legalities boil down to who has the best lawyer and a cooperative judge in their favour. There are many ambiguities with what can and cannot be tendered in payment.

 

Every lease I ever had said payment had to be check or money order, cash of any type would not be accepted. Only when I got the house would they finally even accept electronic transfers.