Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California
I am at a dispute with my apartment's new management. They have refused to accept electronic payments in most forms, so there is almost no way I can setup an automatic payment with them. They told me specifically "go to your bank and setup and automatic payment with them where they will send us a check every month"
I did just that, however, apparently the address and name were already registered with BillPay from the previous apartment's owners and so the payment went to the previous management's account.
I got the money back from the previous management, however, I need to know if there is a law that requires the new management to take control of the registered name/information to their recently acquired apartment complex (as it is a fictitious name owned by the company, not a person's name) because everytime I try and have BillPay send them an check, it's automatically going to not send it to them because that name/address are still registered electronically and it will just make an electronic payment to the old owners who still have that name/address registered on their account.
It seems there must be some law concerning one company still registered to receive payments from a name and address of property they no longer own. Shouldn't the new owner have to take control of their new property ?
1 Answer from Attorneys
I doubt there is any law requiring the new owner to try to switch accounts. The old owner might not be willing to give up his account name [using it for other purposes now?] and the new owner merely has to make the rental payment process reasonable and not include all possible ways of payment [wouldn't they charge him an administrative fee]. You have to find some other way of handling the payment.
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