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Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:36:22 GMT

This may be a dumb question but just wondering....

Can rent on an apartment in California (LA) be paid with a credit card?

I know a cash advance would be an option, albeit a very bad one, but I didn't know if

some larger scale apartment complexes allowed credit card payments or not.

Obviously renters in Los Angeles would best be able to answer this question!

Thank you to all who reply!

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:40:39 GMT

I'm leaning towards NO, i highly doubt it! I will say this though most Apartment complexes are individually owned or privately owned so if there policy is to accept a credit card payment then it is possible.

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

steve23111 — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:46:34 GMT

I understand that there are a "few" apartment communities out there that have started accepting electronic payments, but can't cite specific sources on that.

There is a service out there that specializes in electronic rent payment called "William Paid." If your specific community does not participate, it might be worth dropping a note to the property manager with the suggestion. It's been a while since I read the details, but I do not believe it costs the landlord anything to use the service.

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Datx — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:47:05 GMT

It just depends if the apartment or property accepts CC payments. Here in TX, some apartments offers an option for you to pay by CC, while others dont. The apartment im currently at now offers echeck, or CC payment options. But of course it comes with a fee. They tack on additional 3.5% of the amount you're paying when using a CC.

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Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:20:38 GMT

Thanks to everyone for the great information!

Hopefully when I make the move I can do enough searching to find a place to my liking.

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:38:38 GMT

My apartment community allows credit card rent payments, but they charge a flat $35 fee that would exceed the benefit of any CC rewards program I have.

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:42:15 GMT

Bribro, what do you mean by the $35 fee not being worth paying by credit card?

I guess I just don't understand the correlation between a rewards redeeming card and a small fee with the payment of monthly rent.

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

steve23111 — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:44:35 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Bribro, what do you mean by the $35 fee not being worth paying by credit card?
I guess I just don't understand the correlation between a rewards redeeming card and a small fee with the payment of monthly rent.

Unless your rent is $3500/month or more, then most credit cards (with the typical 1% cash back or points value) won't make enough in rewards to offset the $35 fee.

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:13:18 GMT

You can use williampaid.com, but there are fees.

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:17:30 GMT

With that site, if a landlord of a complex isn't involved with it, is it still do-able? I'm looking at the site now and it says the landlord

wouldn't have to register or anything. Which is curious to me because if I decide to rent an apartment and the landlord says

only "check or cash"...how does this williampaid.com handle that?

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:17:37 GMT

@steve23111 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Bribro, what do you mean by the $35 fee not being worth paying by credit card?
I guess I just don't understand the correlation between a rewards redeeming card and a small fee with the payment of monthly rent.
Unless your rent is $3500/month or more, then most credit cards (with the typical 1% cash back or points value) won't make enough in rewards to offset the $35 fee.

Exactly. My rent is only $2,000/month so it doesn't make sense to pay the $35 fee when my cash back tops out at 1%. Too bad.

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:21:24 GMT

I guess the thing I'm trying to say is, if I had the desire to only pay rent with a credit card, in the event I don't have funds in my checking account at any given moment, I wouldn't care about a $35 fee or however much, as long as I could pay with my credit card. That must sound stupid! And why, I cannot wait to see if I will be able to handle rent in those ranges. I'm in the midwest and I pay $635 for a 1 bedroom. How does anyone do it?!

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

steve23111 — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:34:28 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I guess the thing I'm trying to say is, if I had the desire to only pay rent with a credit card, in the event I don't have funds in my checking account at any given moment, I wouldn't care about a $35 fee or however much, as long as I could pay with my credit card. That must sound stupid! And why, I cannot wait to see if I will be able to handle rent in those ranges. I'm in the midwest and I pay $635 for a 1 bedroom. How does anyone do it?!

Understood.

Personally, I would appreciate it simply for the convenience factor if the fees weren't unreasonable. I am of the understanding that my property manager will only accept rent payment in the form of money orders or cashier's checks, but having researched rent payment policies on the Internet that might have just been for the initial payment (actual rent payment, no deposit was required). I am going to send her an e-mail and clarify, because simply being able to write a check each month instead of having to round up money orders would be much more convenient.

Here in Richmond, my partner and I split $705/month for a 1-bedroom which includes water and trash. Light bill is usually around $75, TV and Internet another $100. We have lots left over and could afford a much nicer place, but we're cozy here. Around here, $705 is a deal.

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Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:48:07 GMT

It's depressing to think about but I'm almost positive every single person on this forum contributing actually MAKES money. PUTS AWAY money. SAVES. I am more than almost positive that not a single poster on this forum is an actor or actress, which is what I am. I used to give a big "F YOU!" to all the money-makers, all the hoarders and keepers of the cash that deserve nothing. I'm sorry for ranting but in my city the jerks, lowlives, idiots, kiss butts, kids I went to school with, drunks, degenerates, insensitive, inhumane, unintelligent, unintellectual, faux sophistacated cretons that are making unnecessary noises and causing riots outside a bar I live by are the ones that get the money. They are the ones who are so pathetic they went to school and got a nice degree and settled into a nice career and the house and the car and the crap. They should be getting paid to act, because I see it everyday. I walk downtown and see the suits, the cars, the vanity, the sense of "praise me, look at me, idolize me, be mesmorized by the way I have it all figured out", and there they are right outside drinking until they forget they have a wife and three growing kids at home. They act everyday. In their offices, cubicles, Lambourghinis, walking to the deli, to the coffee shop, in falsivity. I loathe these human beings. The way the world is today is because no one can let go of anything. No one can pursue a passion. No one can understand what they're doing. No one can comprehend that what they do is wrong, but more so pointless.

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

steve23111 — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:51:07 GMT

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:54:46 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
It's depressing to think about but I'm almost positive every single person on this forum contributing actually MAKES money. PUTS AWAY money. SAVES. I am more than almost positive that not a single poster on this forum is an actor or actress, which is what I am. I used to give a big "F YOU!" to all the money-makers, all the hoarders and keepers of the cash that deserve nothing. I'm sorry for ranting but in my city the jerks, lowlives, idiots, kiss butts, kids I went to school with, drunks, degenerates, insensitive, inhumane, unintelligent, unintellectual, faux sophistacated cretons that are making unnecessary noises and causing riots outside a bar I live by are the ones that get the money. They are the ones who are so pathetic they went to school and got a nice degree and settled into a nice career and the house and the car and the crap. They should be getting paid to act, because I see it everyday. I walk downtown and see the suits, the cars, the vanity, the sense of "praise me, look at me, idolize me, be mesmorized by the way I have it all figured out", and there they are right outside drinking until they forget they have a wife and three growing kids at home. They act everyday. In their offices, cubicles, Lambourghinis, walking to the deli, to the coffee shop, in falsivity. I loathe these human beings. The way the world is today is because no one can let go of anything. No one can pursue a passion. No one can understand what they're doing. No one can comprehend that what they do is wrong, but more so pointless.

I am so confused. So you hate people that have jobs? ...

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:21:33 GMT

I hate people that waste their lives being occupied with jobs they hate, which in turn, makes them hate themselves. Their hatred/anger to themselves is what propels me to hate them. No one has to have a high paying job. I've never worked a job that I hated. I'm always thinking, "what's going to get me closer to my goal of becoming a working actor?". I avoid anything that could potentially drain my wants to inspire people through the theater and films. All that I see around me day after day is waste. People wasting away, trying to keep up, trying to survive. My whole perception of society changed after I was working for a local retail store and went out on break to have a cigarette. On my way out, there was a kid on the curb by the building with a guitar and a little dish for change or whatever someone wanted to give him. I went and talked to him, asking him where he'd come from, how he got around, what in the world he was doing, and he just blew me away with one solidified statement: I'm just doing something important, passing through." I played his beaten guitar and we talked and management from this company I worked for came out and told him he couldn't be there. He put his little dish away and said "I'm not loitering or soliciting, I'm just passing through." SOMEONE, some shopper who had gone in while we were out there talking and playing the guitar had reported him to management. I found it very wrong and I quit on the spot. Call me reckless and irresponsible, but what he had said struck something in me. I started seeing the sadness in peoples' faces. I started realizing that all that anyone can do is pass through LIFE, but most don't do it knowingly. They don't pass through to make the slightest impact on anyone or anything. But it sure is nice to have the house because I knocked up my girlfriend who I had to marry because I felt trapped into it and now the kids are asking for money so that means holding off buying that new car I was going to lease so I could drive fast and agitate pedestrians and other drivers that are in crappier cars just so I can feel the wind pummel me in the face and maybe get some air, some release from this suffocating feeling that I'm too influential around my peers to talk about. Anyway, no one will understand. No one ever does.

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

steve23111 — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:23:55 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Anyway, no one will understand. No one ever does.

I'm just trying to figure out how we found ourselves on this topic. Interesting viewpoints, and certainly worthy of discussion, but I'm having a bit of a hard time following...

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:35:02 GMT

So you hate people you don't even know because you assume they hate their jobs/lives? Alrighty then.

Re: Can apartment rent in California be paid with credit card?

Anonymous — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:28:56 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I hate people that waste their lives being occupied with jobs they hate, which in turn, makes them hate themselves. Their hatred/anger to themselves is what propels me to hate them. No one has to have a high paying job. I've never worked a job that I hated. I'm always thinking, "what's going to get me closer to my goal of becoming a working actor?". I avoid anything that could potentially drain my wants to inspire people through the theater and films. All that I see around me day after day is waste. People wasting away, trying to keep up, trying to survive. My whole perception of society changed after I was working for a local retail store and went out on break to have a cigarette. On my way out, there was a kid on the curb by the building with a guitar and a little dish for change or whatever someone wanted to give him. I went and talked to him, asking him where he'd come from, how he got around, what in the world he was doing, and he just blew me away with one solidified statement: I'm just doing something important, passing through." I played his beaten guitar and we talked and management from this company I worked for came out and told him he couldn't be there. He put his little dish away and said "I'm not loitering or soliciting, I'm just passing through." SOMEONE, some shopper who had gone in while we were out there talking and playing the guitar had reported him to management. I found it very wrong and I quit on the spot. Call me reckless and irresponsible, but what he had said struck something in me. I started seeing the sadness in peoples' faces. I started realizing that all that anyone can do is pass through LIFE, but most don't do it knowingly. They don't pass through to make the slightest impact on anyone or anything. But it sure is nice to have the house because I knocked up my girlfriend who I had to marry because I felt trapped into it and now the kids are asking for money so that means holding off buying that new car I was going to lease so I could drive fast and agitate pedestrians and other drivers that are in crappier cars just so I can feel the wind pummel me in the face and maybe get some air, some release from this suffocating feeling that I'm too influential around my peers to talk about. Anyway, no one will understand. No one ever does.

I'd say this is a major oversimplification at best. Even based off of this oversimplification the people I know who would fit your characterization are often so enamored with themselves and ignorant about their surroundings they are often perfectly happy. Once they pause for reflection they may have a breakdown, mid life crisis, etc. but often times they never pause for reflection they are reactive and wait to make their next move constantly preparing for some unknown competition.

Either way its very off topic for this board.