To answer the paypal questions - paypal works on a sliding scale based on the amount of the deposits made in a month.

Here is a link to their current fee schedule: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_displ...ceiving-fees-outside

The big difference between paypal and a merchant account is that the merchant account is a regulated bank whereas paypal uses their own system. This is important if you ever need to do an integration with paypal. As a side note, the examples shipped with the paypal integration kit do not work so be kind to your developer because he has to troubleshoot a hairy mess of code. :)

One thing to keep note of with paypal is they have a nasty habit of freezing accounts of people who show a large increase in funds. For those interested here are some links documenting these issues:

www.paypalwarning.com/

www.paypalsucks.com/frozen-accounts.shtml

money.howstuffworks.com/paypal7.htm

Johnny Karnofsky wrote:

As far as customer service goes; I feel for you! I have ONE resident in particular, that has some very bad habits.....

1) she always starts off a request with 'you BETTER'. What happened to 'Can you' or 'Would you'????
2) she will come to me with a problem, and expect me to drop everything to solve it; without knowing IF I already know about the problem and I am already working on it's solution..... This impedes progress......
3) she always asks questions that do not have anything to do with her, or affect her life in any way; yet she expects an answer, even if that answer involves confidential information that she has no need for. I am very aware of privacy issues, and refuse to put myself in a position to release any information to anyone without a legitimate need to know.

That said, I expect that this resident will actually move; and a large portion of my time will become available to me once again. This portion of time is currently being used to address her and the problems she creates by her actions described above. I want to welcome her to leave....

UPDATE... this resident turned in her notice to vacate today; trouble is that this was not a 30 day notice (as required), it was a SEVEN day notice!!! She will be out on January 4. I am torn in that this hurts my already disgusting vacancy rate; but happy that the problems she creates by her interruptions are soon to be over... I could not close my office door and window fast enough to do my happy dance discreetly for that fact alone!

Rose - I am going to call HD tomorrow and learn more. Thanks so much!

We have one of these mailboxes for outgoing mail, but it would work for collecting rent too. There is a rotating metal bar inside that allows items to be put in but not taken out without opening the box with the key.

hdsupplysolutions.com/webapp/wcs/stores/...816964-1&req=catalog

I like for the box on the inside to be secure in case there is a break-in. I like the idea of the ring so the gum gets stuck, but I haven't figured it out yet!

Hi Morgan - the name of the company is Permavault Safe compnay...Their phone number is (215) 293-9951...Let me know if you need any more info!!!