Ok, i wrote a check for my rent and I think its going to bounce. What will happen if it does? Will i go to jail for writing a "bad" check? I mean, i have the money in there, but some transactions came out and now i dont have enough money in the bank.
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Lil B
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unless your bank chooses to cover your mistake, temporarily, it will refuse to pay the check, and will charge you a fee for overdrawing your account, and return the check to your landlord's bank. your landlord's bank will charge HIM a fee for sending them a check that bounced and I imagine he will want you to reimburse him in the future and pay with a cashier's check in the future. take a personal finance class. if you don't have enough money in your account to cover ever single check you've written, all on the same day, the money wasn't "in there"
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Contact your landlord immediately, explain to him/her what happened, apologize and hope that an arrangement for payment can be worked out, including bank charges he will face and even some interest. Don't do it again!
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