Collections
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Filing a rent dispute: the file you needed six months ago
A rental dispute is decided on documents, and almost all of them had to exist before anyone decided to file. What the tribunal is handed, why registration is the threshold question, and why the cheque and the unit are two different cases.
8 min readRent arrears: grace periods, late fees, and when to escalate
Most late rent is not a bounced cheque or a dispute — it is simply late. What happens next is usually decided by whoever notices first, when the grace period and the late fee should be contract terms enforced the same way every time.
8 min readRent by bank transfer: matching money to the right invoice
A transfer is easy to receive and hard to identify. Why the sender is rarely the tenant, what a payment reference must look like to survive the banking system, and how part payments should be allocated.
7 min readWhen a rent cheque bounces: what changed, and what to do now
The UAE largely decriminalised insufficient-funds cheques in January 2022 and made the cheque itself directly enforceable. That changed the first move from a police station to an execution court — and changed what a property manager needs to have on file.
8 min readHow post-dated cheques actually work in Arab rental markets
Annual rent settled in four cheques handed over at signing is the norm from Casablanca to Muscat — and the reason most property software does not fit. What a PDC register has to track, and what happens when one bounces.
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