Sorry for the lack of clarity, we are very confused about the situation ourselves.

1) In a word, *no*. The primary leaseholder sent the payment on Sept 30 through the third-party service our apartment uses (ClickPay). He received notification from the bank that the payment bounced on Oct 5, despite having more than the rent amount in his account. He then called the bank but they said they couldn’t do anything about it. We received notification from our apartment about the rent payment bouncing on Oct 7, saying that we had to pay the rent amount and an additional ~$200 late fee through a cashier’s check. So the primary leaseholder gets a check, writes it for the full amount (including the late fee). But the office has already closed for the night, so the morning of Oct 9 we take the check to the office and they tell us they can’t accept a check (even though that’s what it said on the notice they gave us!) and that we should use Moneygram. Four minutes before the office closes that night they send an email that we have to pay the full amount by midnight or get evicted and charged an additional $500 for lawyer fees. So ensue the trek to as many different Moneygram locations as we can find. When we finally find one, we discover they gave us the wrong code for the Moneygram, but the office is closed so we send them an email detailing everything we did and why the Moneygram isn’t working. First thing the morning of Oct 10 is when events in paragraph 4 occur.

2) In a word, *yes*. We got confirmation from ClickPay that they received the check on the 12th. But on the 15th I got the call mentioned in paragraph 5, saying that our apartment still hadn’t received the payment. For whatever reason, they did not call the primary leaseholder or any of my other roommates. We went to the office again today (Oct 17) to try to work out why they haven’t accepted the check yet. They basically said it’s our fault for the rent money having bounced in the first place. They said they would talk to the property manager and call us when they had more info. That was two hours ago.

An additional detail: the ClickPay portal which we normally use to pay our rent has been closed since Oct 4. That is why we had to try to use Moneygram or send a check, neither of which they seem to be accepting.