Yes, I'm talking about myself.
Turns out I can't count - and I forget things.
When we rented our last apartment, we paid first and last month's rent in one cheque. Because we were only in the apartment for half of July, the first month's rent was only for two weeks, and then we tacked on the full amount for the last month. Forgetting this, I wrote the landlord a further twelve cheques for every month we would be in the apartment - including the last month.
The landlord, of course, being the kind of person she is, didn't mention this to us that she had an extra cheque, and then, when we had left town, she cashed it. So I'm out $1350, and they have a lot of money that doesn't belong to them. This amount pretty much covers Andy's tuition for this term, which we were kind of counting on.
I wrote an email to her son about it, painting myself as a moron and oops - I think your mother got confused and cashed it. So we'll see what I get back. So far, no response.
We're thinking they're going to give us trouble because we refused to fix the washing machine. It would have cost $250 to fix it (and the thing was a fire hazard) when it was $50 to buy a newer, better one off craigslist. So fine, they can take $50 off my cheque. But I still want the other $1300. We're also thinking that they might give us trouble about the sink in our bedroom, which spontaneously disintegrated two days before we moved out. The pipe under the plug just snapped because it was so old. We didn't tell them because frankly they'd been giving us the stink-eye for the past three months for no reason, and, well, it was two days before we moved - we were a little preoccupied.
I'm more than miffed that she was so sneaky as to wait until we'd left town before cashing that cheque (I wish we hadn't actually had any money in the account at the time - then we'd only be paying fees on a bounced cheque). But I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt that, you know, I DID write her a cheque for that amount and she had every right to cash it, and perhaps just got confused as to how many months I'd paid for.
Cross your fingers. I'll let you know what happens.
Posted by Ally at August 27, 2008 08:23 AMRun to your bank RIGHT NOW and tell them you want this cheque returned. Banks can return cheques if the request is made within 24 hours of the processing date of the cheques. And sometimes even up to 48 hours. When they ask for a reason, just tell them there was a miscommunication and you are denying payment for that cheque. They CAN do it. Lord know I do it enough times in a week here for our customers.
The only thing I might note about this is that you have to do it through your home branch.
Posted by: Chelle at August 27, 2008 02:18 PMYeah, I know all that. But the cheque was deposited on August 5th.
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