Ours emails us this crap to. It’s going to be in my review when I move out. Ever since the Texas megacorp bought this place it has gone downhill.
This could actually be interesting if it was the opposite…
You can get a small discount, and pre pay the next month in advance. You can miss any of those payments up until the end of the month when the remaining balance is due.
The discount is based off how much you paid early.
Landlord gets a reduced risk as every early payment is money that is in his hands and available up to a month before.
All landlords are leeches. Every single one of them.
Many are. But I’ll stick my neck out here for when I rented in socal.
My landlord Randy was a retired dentist. He had built an ADU on his property in order to care for his very elderly mother. She had since passed away, leaving him with an empty mobile home in his backyard.
It sat empty for a few years, as his now-adult children and friends didn’t need it. He couldn’t sell it because of minimum plot size, setbacks, and utility issues.
I ended up renting from him for two years, and it was an excellent situation with reasonable rent and a great relationship.
I think a great many landlords are garbage, and I don’t think it’s possible to be a corporate landlord without being garbage. But there are some situations where a landlord is just a person who finds themselves in a situation where renting a space out makes the most sense. Open to other perspectives on this.
Landlords, by virtue of being a landlord, means their income is generated through rent seeking off the basic human necessity of shelter via simply “owning” the domicile that is being lived in by someone else through the system of private property ownership which is a core feature inherent to the unjust and oppressive capitalist economy.
By having their income be generated through simply having ownership over a means of survival makes them of the bourgeoisie/owning class and are inherently leeches off of those of the working class who must rent instead of own.
Landlords should not exist. Period.
I think they key counter-argument comes from your position “leeches off of those of the working class who must rent”. I agree with this! But it ignores people that want to rent for whatever reason, like living somewhere for a few years to attend university.
The only reason people want to rent is due to the inherent complications of the capitalist system making it unfeasible for those who fall underneath an arbitrary financial threshold to be able to own property plus the unnecessary complications that monetary systems cause in the exchanging said property.
Under a communal system of ownership. You can own the home for a few years while you live in it, under the rule of usufruct (use-based ownership), and once you are done the property returns to the community as a collective until someone else has need of it.
It doesn’t need to be any more complicated than that. But it is only because of the current systems we live under arbitrarily making this more complicated so that a few individuals (the owning class) can exploit these complications for profit and personal enrichment
after looking at their site…oh fuck no.
they offer lines of credit to pay your rent. but you have to pay back said credit by the end of the month so…why? If you’re having trouble paying your rent getting a line of credit to cover it and then having to pay back said credit by the end of the month on top of a percentage AND membership fee it just sounds exactly like a payday loan where you KNOW they hope you roll over so you’ll never be able to catch up.
Its the same model as payday loans. It’s predatory lending plain and simple.
I always said if I had no morals, payday loans would be my Jam. It’s the most casually evil shit. Get rich by doing nothing and providing no service and locking people into your scan for life.
I hate these companies so much.
They now have “freedom” to abuse their customers.
- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/11/trump-administration-declares-cfpb-funding-illegal-00646354
I’m sure you’ll feel that warm wet trickling down any day now
It is a payday loan in the most classical sense that’s why it exists.
Sometimes people aren’t able to pay by the first so they have to get it paid somehow it absolutely relies on getting paid later on to pay off the loan.
They’re just one half step above being a loan shark.
The only difference between them is the loan shark can’t take you to court to get their money back.
Way shit’s going, at some point you’re going to have to break your own kneecaps and there will still be a fee associated with the self-service.
The US loves their useless, expensive middlemen.
hence their “healthcare”
Innovation! They cut out the middle man and let’s you get screwed by just your landlord instead of the landlord and Copperhawks.
Landlord’s brother probably runs the loan place.
Burn it all down
$15 plus 1% of rent plus card processing fees.
If your rent is $1200 and there’s a 3.5% processing fee, you’re looking at $70/month in extra fees.
Move. Into the streets of needed. Say no to insane bullshit
no
But?
Why would anyone do this
I just got a postcard of this in the mail!
It wasn’t from the landlord though and it didn’t have any identifying information.
What a garbage company.
Short answer: late stage capitalism
Long answer: Because they don’t have enough money to make rent on time and the associated fees are less than the late fees. Being poor is expensive.
I just moved from a shithole place that used and promoted Flex. The alternative was $300 late fees.
Pay earlier to avoid fees?
Do you tell deaf people to just hear as well?
He said he has to use flex or pay late fees. I’m curious what the alternative to flex is that forces him to pay late fees and why paying a few days earlier somehow doesn’t work to avoid fees. Just seems weird to me, but I’ve never been in that situation.
How do you pay early if something has happened and you don’t have the money? Not everyone can get mommy and daddy to do an instant wire transfer when things go wrong.
You’re supposed to have a 6month emergency fund built up. I just wanted to know what the alternative to flex pay was but apparently I didn’t ask that in the proper way. Sorry
Brilliant, thanks!
I’m so grateful that big brain lent a fraction of their vast intelligence to think of us simple folk.
I’m genuinely curious why you can’t pay earlier…
Yeah I don’t think you’ve ever had to earn your own money.
I don’t appreciate being called a liar but I have nothing to prove to you. Hope you have a nice day
Because of a lack of funds… How is that difficult for you to understand? Are you this privileged?
I’m not privileged. I work hard 6 days a week and try to save money and pay my rent before other frivolous spending like snacks and energy drinks. I understand we are all struggling and making sacrifices. But I also know that some stuff comes first and rent is one of those things. Avoiding paying $300 in fees seems like a good thing to do and I would proba ly prioritize it.
Same reason people finance their groceries over 4 weekly payments now.
Rocket Mortgage has had this commercial for a couple years where some schlub is trudging back into his house lamenting the fact that six bags of groceries has become two (thanks to inflation). Suddenly his house starts talking to him and reminding him that he could get a Rocket Mortgage loan backed by his small amount of equity and use the money to buy groceries. Dude lights up with joy and dances into this house. It’s just beyond fucked that this is obviously one of their most successful commercials. It’s amazing that they can turn borrowing money for food into a positive.
I knew we were fucked when dicks sporting goods had a paper printout saying they would finance your yeti cooler on the end cap with the coolers.
I now refuse to ever own a yeti product. GFs family has a few, I refuse. The 2 yeti cups i have were gifts. And a 3rd one we found at a thrift store for $4.
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When you’re rich everything is free and when you’re broke it costs a lot.
yup. It’s fucking expensive being poor :/
Which country is this? Do most landlords do this? /gen
When I lived in NYC, one of my apartments had a tipping option on the website
Hollow tip are best, they spall inside the landlord and are less likely to exit out the back and damage anything of value.
Landlord: You shot me!
Tennant: Yup. Take a look. At least I didn’t fuck up the paint or the carpet.
Took me a second, only heard of them as hollow points lol.
Wow. Either someone was too lazy to turn of the default settings, or figured it was appropriate to ask. Either way, that’s some shocking lack-of-awareness going on.
It’s called Key Money but in some places like Japan it’s essentially a gratuity (in the US and other places it’s just a refundable security deposit)
refundable security deposit
refundable
A what now
They are supposed to put your deposit and last month’s rent in an escrow account. But the shadier US landlords never do.
That’s all landlords. They never follow the law because they have significantly more power over the tenant. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a security deposit back in full in the dozen or so apartments I’ve lived in, they always have some slimy excuse for it and bank on a lawyer being more expensive
Touché
Peak Landlord Privilege
I’m sure this is the US. And this is the first time I’ve heard of it in 35 years of renting.
Insurers do this to doctors, too. They take a large “convenience fee” for electronic payment to the doctor. And they have no option to get physical checks. The relevant US regulatory agency briefly declared it illegal, but was convinced by lobbying their rule wouldn’t hold up against a lawsuit, so they withdrew it. And Congress doesn’t care to make the law more clear.
It’s in canada also. My gf had to pay a rental payment fee for the system they use. Same with enwin utilities in ontario. They just installed a new tax for no reason.
Oh it’s for a reason, and that reason is “capitalism”.
Their investors want not just profits but profit growth. So companies have to come up with new avenues of extracting money from their consumers. It’s a fundamental feature of the capitalist system.
And so long as they have private ownership over these things, there is about jack all we can do to stop them.
14.99 plus payment fee of 1% of rent amount. So if your rent is 2k that’s another $20 per payment.
For what? Please tell me this is not the only payment option.
My apartment complex tried outsourcing their payment portal, attaching a fee to it, and making it the only way to pay.
I ended up going down to the office to write a check in front of them once a month, making sure to complain loud enough to be overheard when they had other people inquiring about apartments.
Apartments these days will nickle and dime you to death. Late in my tenancy, they wanted me to sign up to have my pets put into a database. They were also going to charge $25 per pet per month to have them in the database. You bet your ass I was in their office the next day with my pet addendum to discuss their breach of contract. My rabbits were not the dogs that kept getting loose and shitting all over the place.
Had an apartment a while back, they changed owners and didn’t really tell anyone until I got a note on my door saying next months rent, due in a week, can’t be done online, needed to be cash check or money order or eviction process would start. What if I was out of the country or working remotely and didn’t get the note? No email, no call, just note on the door.
I threw a fucking fit, this was the last straw after a parking lot flooded with gravel, moldy laundry rooms, flooded apartment. Then threaten me with eviction because of their bullshit?
I wrote up my refusal to renew then, like 2 months into a new lease. Made them reimburse me for having to get a money order (don’t have checks), then began looking to buy. When renewal came up, they said I needed to renew and raised the prices. I referred them to my email and printout and told them to fuck themselves.
They tried to bill me for cleaning after I moved out, just never replied.
A check, that is petty revenge for sure. We had a portal when we were renting from a slumlord (though we were renting a ridiculously awesome house from them for a reasonable price, one they owned themselves, most of their portfolio was dumps owned by Chinese people who bought them unseen) and yeah it had a fee but $3/month was the fee. I still thought it was funny, paying online is cheaper for them than dealing with my paper check, but we have to cover the cost of online portal but not the check? I’d probably charge people for giving me a check and make online free, if anything.
We did pay pet deposit, not pet rent. Fair I think, pets do add liability, even rabbits might get stressed and piss in the corner or something.
rabbits might get stressed and piss in the corner or something.
Oh yeah, they’re little pissers.
However, we already had a pet addendum, and laid out the pet fees and conditions for keeping the rabbits in the apartment. We also don’t let them on carpet because eating synthetic fibers can bind up their gut and cause them to die horribly.
Go the steam route, make it as convenient as possible and people will be happy to give you money.
This is clownshit.
Can he force you to enter a contract with them? Sounds illegal.
No, I still have the option of paying it all at once without going through this finance company. But they’ve been spamming my email letting me know about the “new payment option.”
Report the emails as spam, especially if they’re from the loan shark directly.
That’s when you reply to the company and tell them that you find their policies rather predatory and not too dissimilar from low-class “payday loan” companies and that you want them to remove you from their mailing list and you will from now on mark any emails from them as spam, and sent straight to the trash.
CC it to the landlord as well.
He has the right to use their services, but you have the right not to do business with them. Your agreement is with the landlord NOT a third party that came in after the fact.
All at once? It’s either monthly with fees or a whole year of payments? This sounds illegal but what’s legal these days. I would say fuck this guy and give him a check every month and if he refuses then put it in a escrow account and tell him if he will only take one lump payment then he can wait until the end of the year to collect it.
By forcing lump payments they are removing your bargaining power when shit goes wrong. Withholding rent is the only power a renter has.
I mean all at once as a monthly payment, not for the full year.
Ahh then just block the emails.
Your landlord is a fool! They should have raised the rent by that same amount and then offered you a $10 a month discount to pay it all at once.
Rookie doesn’t know how to play a numbers/scam game. /s
In truth, sorry you are only being given such a scummy “option”. The simple math shows that the more often you pay (i e. the earlier the recipient gets your money) the more they make in the long run. They should just do that and be decent about the whole thing.
Yeah my place has this too, it’s an option if you want to split your rent into two payments… ie you don’t have enough to make the whole payment.
Sign of the times for sure
What does your lease say about payment and methods of payment?
I would suggest physically handing a nice big bag with a mix of nickels, dimes and quarters to a designated recipient.
Most leases these days specifically do not accept cash. However, I believe in most states, they are required by law to accept bank transfers without a fee.
Is the penny not legal tender anymore now that they aren’t minting them?
Pretty sure that is not how it works. There just wont be New ones
Pennies are too easy to separate out.
But if you like, throw in $2 worth of pennies. And a few $2 bills. I’m still not sure they are real 😂
2 dollar bills are real but i am not sure they are accepted legal tender anymore
They sure are! Have a few in my till at work right now :)
Good to know!
Really? My kids got them in birthday cards this year. Pretty sure those relatives said they got them from the bank
It’s still legal tender, they’re just not making them anymore
Same shit as with pet screening. I already have to pay a $200 deposit for having a cat, a $30 per month fee for both cats and now $40 per cat per year for pet screening.
Lmao my landlord sent me a link to some pet screening thing I was meant to pay for.
But they forgot that that isn’t actually in my lease so I just ignored it.
My pets are all illegal aliens
Haha, we did the same whenever we rented. Landlord doesn’t need to know. And it was the kind of places where maintenance didn’t give a shit, as long as we weren’t fucking anything up.
Katzu was for the longest time an then a maintenance worker ratted us out
