I’ve actually heard a lot of people say that they have extra fees tacked on when they pay their rent.

And all I can say about that is that it’s a bunch of MALARKEY.

But this Reddit user found a clever way to get around it.

Take a look at what happened!

Paying rent without a fee.

“When we first moved to our apartment, a question came up about how we want to pay rent.

They had a website with two choices: Pay by card or pay by bank withdraw.

I picked “pay by card”, and after I filled out all my information online, on the last page it said they’d be charging me a convenience fee of about $10 for doing this automatically.

Hmmm…

I then tried again for “pay by bank withdraw”, filled out all information.. and once again I got hit with that $10 convenience fee.

I thought that was annoying, as I didn’t want to keep paying an extra $10 every month for rent.

The “convenience” is of them automatically taking the money, instead of me manually writing up a check and giving it to them.

Time to figure this out.

So, I looked up their address, went to my bank’s “bill pay” page, and scheduled a recurring payment to that address every month.

I ended up saving $10 every month for free.

The inconvenience was passed to the apartment managers, who now have to open the mail and get my check every month.

After a while of living there, I talked with a few neighbors who complained about having to pay this extra $10 all the time.

I told them about this trick of paying automatically through the bank. Made them happy.”

Let’s see how people reacted on Reddit.

This reader thinks they know what’s going on…

Another Reddit user shared a story.

This person chimed in.

Another individual spoke up.

And this reader had a lot to say.

Way to stick it to ’em!

And it was just as easy for him, too.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.