If you happen to be experiencing financial difficulty and mail out a rent payment the following month, does the LL have the right to mail your check back to you with a letter stating "we have received check #... however you are now in arrears of X amount, which consists of last month plus what's owed for this month?"
Of course this would be closely followed with a rent demand notice from their lawyer and soon a summons to Housing Court where they would initiate an attempt to evict you.
Is the LL mandated to cash perfectly good rent checks from RS tenants upon receipt (whenever you happen to send it in) or do they reserve the right to mail them back if you happen to be tardy and have sent them in the following month? (for example, if I had financial difficulty and didn't send in my June rent until July 10th, can the LL mail back that check and say you now owe June rent PLUS July and we are mailing back your check until you send in the total amount)?
Is this a form of RS tenant harassment? If you are the victim of compounding MCI's, the rent burden gets higher and higher.