My Landlord doesn't know how money orders work
For context , me and my partner just moved to a new state from a company owned complex to a private landlord renting situation. At our old complex we would always get money orders as our rent payments because neither one of us have a check book and it was the cheapest option cause the online payment took a 10% fee out of all online payment.
In our current lease it says that money orders are an acceptable form of payment . So a few days prior I went to our local Walmart and got the money orders made to turn in on the first .
Flash forward to yesterday July 1st and I drop the money orders off at my landlords residence . When I texted him saying I was gonna bring them he insisted that in the future we only do Zelle payments not something discussed or something written within our lease .
A few hours later he calls me because I had accidentally endorsed my own money orders. ( at my old complex this is how they instructed me to fill it out cause it was my first time doing money orders anywhere so I just filled it out the same as I would at the complex.)
he tells me he will try to deposit it anyways and not say anything but a few minutes go buy and this moron sends me a screenshot of him trying to mobile deposit the money orders . When in bold letters on the back of the check it says you cannot mobile deposit money orders lol.
He tells me to just Zelle him the money but I try several times to explain I need to take the money orders back and drive over an hour away to my nearest bank to attempt to deposit it back into my account. However he's under the assumption that the work more like checks where the money hasn't already been taken out of my account and says he will just rip them up and I tell him very sternly not to do that because I would be out the 1300 I owe him in rent .
To cut it short I got the money orders and drove the hour to my nearest bank to get them deposited even tho his nearest bank is 2 minutes away from his house . Just a frustrating situation all around .
Don't put in our lease we can pay via money orders if you actually are to lazy to go to your own bank to get them cashed