That seems like a lot of extra info to say "sorry, I don't make exceptions, please pay". Eesh. (Also, MARCH rent? He's only now getting around to asking for it?? It's MAY!)

I have totally done that, though--one year I had my landlord email and ask if everything was OK, because it was mid-January and I hadn't paid rent. I'd just forgotten, with all the holidays and stuff. Oops! Luckily it was a private landlord and they were very nice about it (I'd been renting from them almost 4 years at that point, and they had moved from being local landlords to living in Texas), but I made sure to pay my next few months a few days early even, just to be sure!

Thanks, LeN. It wasn't anything too complicated. Just that I needed to check and make sure I was basically compliant.

My landlord called me yesterday to see if I was going to put my rent check under the office door down in the basement (like I always do when I don't see him). I know that a lot of the people in the building are less reliable than I am, but seriously, dude. Also, this is why I asked if there was somewhere I could mail the check. I dislike having to do the whole logistics thing every month.

I am so fortunate these days, landlord-wise.

We had a lot of really hard years, but now, when I go to pay the rent...no matter what day it is...he gives me the 'hey, is it that time again?'

Bless.

That seems like a lot of extra info to say "sorry, I don't make exceptions, please pay". Eesh.

Oh, there were three short paragraphs before that one.

(Also, MARCH rent? He's only now getting around to asking for it?? It's MAY!)

Right?? I mean, you could have let me know I'd missed it earlier, dude. (Technically, when he asked, it was APRIL, though.)

I'm not very good at remembering to mail a check. There are too many steps there -- remember to pay, find checkbook, find pen, write check, find envelope, seal and address envelope, find stamp, take envelope to mailbox -- and I always get distracted by something before I'm done. I've got my bank account set up to automatically print out and mail a check to my landlord at the end of each month.

Years ago I worked on a Neuropsychology service at a hospital in Seattle. We gave patients lots of arcane tests to see if their whatzit lobe or their lateral whozit or the ascending thingamajig in their brain were working right.

Meanwhile, the Occupational therapists were giving the patients real world tasks to see if they could cook a meal or remember to take a pill or understand simple instructions.

Over time it became clear that what mattered in the patient's life was the Occupational Therapy part, not the whozit, whatzit part. Yet the ascending lateral lobes got all of the attention. It was one of the things that sent me back to academia.

All of which reminds me that I need to pay rent. Fortunately, my landlady is pretty lax about dates... I don't think she's cashed last month's check yet.

My landlord in DC would sometimes go several months without depositing my rent checks, and then deposit them all at once. It drove me nuts trying to keep track of how much money I actually had.

Hil, that's probably what I'd do. But I can't do that when he wants me to physically hand him the thing (or stick it under the door that really doesn't seem all that secure).

Rick, I have a lot of theories about why OT doesn't get a lot of respect. Fortunately, we're starting to do some real, actual research that is showing efficacy (the stuff on post-stroke neuroplasticity, for example, is fascinating).

Now that I'm paid once a month, I wait for the paycheck to deposit before I write the rent check. And given how slow they are to make repairs, I don't feel any qualms about waiting the 5 days the lease says is the grace period.