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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1497208, member: 37498&quot;]I think that is stretching the defition of debt a bit because you can still leave the bag of items there and walk away.</p><p><br /></p><p>[/quote]</p><p>By &quot;legal tender&quot;, I was referring to US currency, not any other generally accepted form of payment such as checks, credit cards, gift certificates, coupons, bitcoins, etc.&nbsp; You know the whole thing this entire thread has been about.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not quite.&nbsp; If you offer payment in legal US currency on the date your rent is due and they refuse it, they will have no legal ground to charge you any late fees.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not at all.&nbsp; I am merely pointing out that the law is meant to provide protection to debtors from creditors.&nbsp; If you have a debt to someone that is measured in US Dollars, and you make an attempt to pay them using US currency, that represents a legal and valid offer of payment.&nbsp; Of course you can choose not to accept it, but in doing so you will forfeit certain legal rights that you would have had if they had not made an attempt to repay their debt.&nbsp; (The imposition of late fees, interest, placing adverse information in their credit report, forclosure, etc)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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