Tradd
1-18-12, 1:12pm
I'm with Chase and so is my landlord. I've gotten almost totally away from writing checks - except to my landlord. Due to the way I'm paid and the five days you must allow for bank to send a check through their online bill pay, paying landlord that way isn't convenient.
Chase has a "person to person" money transfer tool. It's free. You don't have to have the other person's account number like you do with ING Direct. Just their email address. My landlord is refusing to use it. He thinks if you use it, money will get taken out of his account as a user fee. Mind you, he's not from the US originally, so I'm getting the impression he thinks this is a wire transfer (which does cost both the sender and receiver, as I know from work-related wire transfers).
The landlord's wife (American-born) thinks getting paid for rent this way is a fabulous idea (they don't have to go to the bank).
Have any of you used the person to person services? How did you like it? Any problems?
Thanks!
Chase has a "person to person" money transfer tool. It's free. You don't have to have the other person's account number like you do with ING Direct. Just their email address. My landlord is refusing to use it. He thinks if you use it, money will get taken out of his account as a user fee. Mind you, he's not from the US originally, so I'm getting the impression he thinks this is a wire transfer (which does cost both the sender and receiver, as I know from work-related wire transfers).
The landlord's wife (American-born) thinks getting paid for rent this way is a fabulous idea (they don't have to go to the bank).
Have any of you used the person to person services? How did you like it? Any problems?
Thanks!