Mark Mullooly sez:
I received this email from my landlord today…’it’s crazy I know…’
Everything. As It Happens.
Mark Mullooly sez:
I received this email from my landlord today…’it’s crazy I know…’
“Feck off!” should be the standard reply. Don’t pay it Mark!
Cancel the standing order and pay him in bags of pennies
+100
+1
pay him in stamps
+1
Wow pedant landlords aren’t dead. Time to move, else make the landlord work for that extra penny.
There’s no way this is genuine
Why do people defend mistakes?
Get the amount right and stop whining about it. Pay attention.
I’d say the mistake was a typo in the rent level unless it was a CPI uplift.
I agree with Cynic on this. Just get it right and stop whinging.
Send them 10p in a Trócaire box.
Landlord’s that don’t value tenants that pay the rent often end up with tenants that don’t pay the rent. How much of his time in monetary terms did that e-mail cost to write; a simple e-mail would have been; if you don’t renew your lease I’ll deduct 12c from your deposit; if you renew it and once rent levels don’t rise then I will write it off.
Technically the tenant is in arrears on his rent and can be turfed out after whatever period is stated in the terms of the lease.
5p in arrears or £500, it does not matter. The account is still in arrears.
Mark you are a monster! Depriving this poor landlord of 12p per year.Disgraceful carry on! That works out at a whole £12 over a 100 year period.
Wait a sec, are you paying that every week? :O
What a jerk this Landlord is – You just post the penny from a “Discounts Taken” Account, rather than fag about with this nonsense.
Jaysus, that is mad money for rent! But yeah, if I was the landlord I’d have done the same.
Do you know where it is and what size the place is?
From experience, I would say it’s the rent for a double room in London….the rent for any non-shit holey place near a good tube line in London is generally in the region of 550-650 a month….
ooops didn’t notice it was per week! jaysus, must be a nice gaff!
The landlord might suffer from OCD, he just can’t handle that the account doesn’t balance. It is weird that it isn’t rounded up to 613.
He should get a software package that only shows balances above £10 as being overdue…….
That would bug me to be honest. I mean, check your figures, get the number right.
But, as above, suspect it might not be genuine.
The poor man would be down 12p per year. 12p!!! You twits with your iphones, skinny lattes and no Ronan Keating records don’t understand the value of money!!
With the money you refuse to give this poor man (at today’s prices), he could buy himself a Donor Kebab meal from Abrakebabra in 58 years! 58 years!!!!
Pay the poor man his penny! You utter b@stard!
13 years.
“…and no Ronan Keating records”
Left me reeling :)
The pennies make the a#sholes.
People can be funny about money. I shared a house one time with a ‘wan who left a note to remind me I owed her 1/2p from the ESB…
Hey I’ve just leased to you, and this is crazy, but call me tightwad.
I don’t think that is in any way an unreasonable request! If, because of this, the landlord is underpaying his mortgage by one cent every month it’s recorded as late payment or regularly not meeting his payments. How big or small the amount is irrelevant, the tenant is still not meeting his rent. The rent agreed is £612.76 and everything is set up around that figure. If the tenant underpays, he f*cks up the system.
That’s landlord talk.
Exactly. get the landlord to round it up and stop asking fro stupid, ridiculously stupid amounts with decimals in. FFS! End of.
1 cent overdue on your mortgage wont be recorded ad late or non payment, what age are you?, jaysus!
BUT the landlord could just transfer a fiver into the mortgage account and then have himself covered for years of 1c per month underpayments
Totally agree. The rent is stipulated, don’t underpay it. Regardless of whether it’s a penny or a pound. Pay the effing thing in full.
Next time you meet him, give him 25 cents and you’re covered for two years. Sorted.
Tell him your not changing the standing order…. you’ll give him the 1 cent in cash, when he comes around each month to check, that there are no repairs to be done.
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Just pay the correct amount in future, is that so hard?
Or do you need to voice this simple request as some sort of platform to demonise a landlord who made the mistake of leasing out to someone who can’t follow simple instructions?
Does the UPC/ Sky accept underpayments of amounts? ESB or Airtricity?
No.
They do actually. If your utility bill is €150.23 and you pay €150, the 0.23 will be carried on to your next bill without any fuss or penalties.
But, the amount still has to be paid eventually right?
It’s not like Sky say “He’s only paid €150.00 of his bill, when it should be €150.23, sure, let’s write of that last 23c and never expect to see it again?”
Seems reasonable for them to expect their bill to be paid eventually, that should work across the board. Utility bills and landlords alike.
To be honest it probably has nothing to do with him being a tightwad but just an accounting thing. If there is a discrepancies in his accounts it cause problems for him when he is audited. If the tenant agreed to lease something for £612.76 then he should make it his business to pay it. It does sound tight but its just accounting pedantry. He should have explained it this way though so maybe he is just tight!
*any
Agreed. Landlord wants to get rid of red text on the screen of his accounts, that’s probably it.
BTW we should have got rid of pennies with the euro changeover like they did in Finland. Everything under 5c is not worth thinking about. Literally.
If I had a penny for every time I heard that…
+1
Spoken like a person who has never bought anything in a third world country. That penny is worth a lot more than you think.
Looks to me like it’s 1p per week? No? Thats 4p a month and in some months 5p.
Yes, I spotted that too. Landlord said “but we can’t do that every week” which suggests a weekly 1p defecit.
Where is this chap renting for £612.76 a week?
That should be deficit, obviously.
Perhaps it’s non residential – a retail unit, pub?
GBP612 per week?! Are you living in the the Ritz Carlton?
London clearly.
Plenty of places in sterling land that are very easily that price per week. And a lot more. It’s astonishing.
I cant understand why someone just wouldnt pay their full debt.
+ 0.01
Change the order to £612.77, ‘by mistake’. Hijinks will no doubt ensue.
gonna stick 50c in the post to ya mate, that’ll cover nearly a year, :)
+ infinity.
I had a similar experience with ESB a while ago. Odd thing is, the amount field on their site is auto-filled… https://dl.dropbox.com/u/31744525/Screen%20shot%202012-09-10%20at%2015.13.12.png
613 GBP a week! must be some gaff
I had to send a similar email to a flatmate. Three of us shared a house, rent was 600 euro a month. The rent, split three ways, was 200.04 each. She transferred 600.
What’s the problem?
the problem is that we all transferred money into a “rent” account, owned by all three of us, and then that money was transferred by standing order into the landlords account. A standing order cost 12c. Because she only transferred 200, and not 200.04, there wasn’t enough to pay for the standing order and the rent didn’t go through. Cue irate phonecall to me from the landlord, and a very similar letter to the one above from me to her.
she transferred 200, not 600.
Not the same situation here, the landlord got the money.
Spend the 50p on a stamp every rent day and post the 1p to him…..it’ll really screw up his accounts
You can actually divide the posters on this site between muppets and normal people by their reaction to this post. Angst and pettiness vs dignity and respect.
The guy’s obviously a loser to post that on the internet. Pay your rent in full and get a life.
Agree, sad to have to show this on such a public platform, pay your debt and stop moaning, its people like you…..
Might be hassle if the landlord has an automated debit going out after rent is paid. I used to have trouble when I was renting a place with three mates, we had an account setup purely for the rent. It was an automated transaction and every time the amount was even a penny short the transaction would fail plus I’d be billed £10 for a “failed transaction” and have to go to the bank to put it through manually.
Tbh not sure why anyone bothers with standing orders anymore, with internet banking now it’s easy to move money around and pay it into an account yourself…
+1 that’s what I was thinking… although if it is the separate account thing he probably should have explained it in the email and avoided coming across like a Douche Larouche.
Pay the correct amount and stop being a prick.
OP is the sap here. His mistake – yet wants the landlord to pay for it – the amount is irrelevant. To all you idiots saying “it’s only 1p”; what’s the exact cut-off the landlord should be expected tolerate???
1p this week, could be 3p next week, it’ll all end in anarchy!!