Looks like things may not be as good as we’d hoped in Toccoa. First she didn’t deposit her weekly check on time, as agreed to on a very legal document (so we could have started eviction right then.) Then it turns out the check she paid us with bounced, so we are back to nothing, minus the $12 fee for a check with insufficient funds. I really don’t understand why we get penalized for her mistake. Anyway, we are trying to make it to Thursday, when she legally agreed to pay us the total due (over $2500) without doing anything to upset the applecart. Once we get that money (and please pray that we do), she is out the first time we don’t get paid on time or a check bounces. I wish we could require her to pay with cash, but it is probably too late for that. I was going to send her a very angry e mail, but Dad stopped me, so for now she just knows that we know that last weeks check bounced and that the total she owes us isn’t just the $120 she deposited (on time this week), but $132 more.
Pray for this situation. I’d hoped we could resolve it peacefully, but now I’m just not sure. And legal costs could easily eat up every penny she owes us, even if we do get the money.
That’s really a bummer. I’ve been happy that we have not had to deal with that. I think having someone who really knows how to screen people helped a lot!
I’m sure that is better. One of the pluses of all this is that now we have names of two property managers that we are going to contact to manage the property for us. There were none advertised in the area, but these are people the lawyer recommended. But first we need to get through this whole situation and see if we are at the point where we need a new renter or what.