Location: Texas
So this is my first experience renting a place and its gone wrong. So to start at the beginning I am currently renting a 2br condo with 2 roomates for $1250 a month. We had a $1250 security deposit that we paid by cashiers check to HIS realtor and I paid first months rent out of my personal bank account via wire transfer. I was going to make a new bank account just for rent but I got lazy and just let my roommates venmo the money to me and I paid from my account. I would wire transfer the money to his Account and Routing number the 1st of every month. It's now 7 months later and the landlord emailed me explaining that he wasn't receiving the rent and hasn't since the first transfer. This is the first time he's contacted me about this. I went through my bank account and found the transactions and screencapped them and emailed them to him as proof on my part.
Here's the things I have done to make sure rent for this current month got to him:
1) made a new bank account, and asked him to try to request the money out of my account. Didn't work
2) went to his bank to see if I could deposit the money directly to his account using my debit card. They wouldn't allow me to do that, said i could only do that if I used cash
3) proceeded to pull $500 out per day (withdrawal limit) until I got the correct amount and deposited the money into his account. That finally worked.
Whilst doing this, I was communicating with him the entire way, telling him what I was doing and how it went. I made sure to explain to him that I'm going to deposit one months rent so that we can make sure that it works before we proceed. Now he's demanding that I pay him the rent that's missing, in cash, by a certain time or he "wants me out of his unit or he will take legal action." I've called my bank trying to see where the money went, but with Chase being Chase, they only could tell me that the transactions went through to the bank account provided.
I honestly don't know what to do, I feel i'm up against a wall with no choices. I would have no problem giving him the amount I "owe" until we figure out what is going on but I don't have that much laying around and I have a backup plan if we do get kicked out but an eviction on a 19 year old's record is not the greatest thing to have.
Any advice or help?
p.s. sorry if this isn't the correct formatting or place to even post this, I'm just trying to get help and advice on what to do, just let me know how I clarify things and I will do my best!
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