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Isaac Curiel
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  • Charlotte, NC
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Accepting Venmo, Cash app, square as methods to pay rent?

Isaac Curiel
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Charlotte, NC
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What are you’re experiences accepting those forms of rent payments?

I am almost done turning my primary residence into my first rental and was thing of accepting those forms of payment ( plus a service charge). Or do I use something like Rentredi?

Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

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Eric G.
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Orange, CA
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Eric G.
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Orange, CA
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@Isaac Curiel

I don’t use any of those services. I use Cozy. The reason I don’t use those services is that I’m not aware of any way to block or prevent a tenant from making a payment to you. That only becomes an issue during an eviction scenario. In California, once you serve a tenant a 3 day notice to pay rent, any acceptance of rent starts the process over.

So here’s a nightmare scenario: you serve a 3 day notice, then on day 3 the tenant makes a $1 Venmo payment to you. The clock starts over and you have to re-serve a new 3 day notice.

If you can’t turn off a payment source, I wouldn’t use it.

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