Being within my rights and being petty are 2 different things. They sometimes overlap. This is one such case. If I didn't trust the check to clear, I'd have

Being within my rights and being petty are 2 different things. They sometimes overlap. This is one such case. If I didn't trust the check to clear, I'd have no choice, of course. But since I could foreclose on them AGAIN if the check didn't clear, there's no way they are going to make that mistake. (To be clear, the above is totally hypothetical and I am not involved in this incident at all.)