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- Subject: Re: Can a landlord refuse cash?
- References: <CONKLIN.93Jan4174514@talisman.kaleida.com>
- From: bob@lopez.marquette.MI.US (Bob Hogg,The Swamp)
- Message-ID: <lJaGf-a60@lopez.marquette.MI.US>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:52:01 EST
- Organization: Great White North/UPLink
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- In <CONKLIN.93Jan4174514@talisman.kaleida.com> conklin@kaleida.com (J.T.
- Conklin) writes:
-
- >I received a notice with my rent statement indicating that as of the
- >next rent period, only personal cheques, cashier's cheques, and money
- >orders will be accepted for rent payments --- cash will no longer be
- >accepted.
-
- >Is this legal? Many of the people in my complex do not have bank
- >accounts. They cash their social security cheques and pay their rents
- >in cash. Forcing someone who is living on a tight budget to buy money
- >orders seems unfair to me.
-
- I'm a landlord, and I certainly can understand someone's reluctance to be
- inundated with large amounts of cash when the rent is due with the
- resultant security problems, etc., and I am acquainted with other
- landlords who refuse cash, including public housing.
-
- However, currency in reasonable denominations is legal tender, and I
- believe it is not legal to refuse it.
-
- As a matter of fact, last year when I went to get a passport, the U.S.
- GOVERNMENT indicated it would not accept cash for payment.
-
- Go figger.
-