I'm a freelancer and I've had happily clients pay me through PayPal, Venmo, Dwolla and other services. But if I were a landlord, I'd sadly ask for a check too.

I'm a freelancer and I've had happily clients pay me through PayPal, Venmo, Dwolla and other services. But if I were a landlord, I'd sadly ask for a check too. A lot of U.S. jurisdictions require a landlord not to accept rent in certain circumstances from a tenant he's trying to evict. It's well established how to do this with a check: don't cash it, and possibly send it back to the sender certified mail. I wouldn't want to risk paying my lawyer to establish a precedent for what that looks like through a new payment system.