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But sometimes you need to bill at a certain point in the month. I don't pay my rent every X days, I pay it on the first of the month. The best solution for tha

But sometimes you need to bill at a certain point in the month. I don't pay my rent every X days, I pay it on the first of the month. The best solution for that may be something like establishing it as a frequency rather than accumulative addition. But that won't work in every situation. Dates are complex and require lots of thinking to do correctly in some circumstances.

dheera 5y ago
> I don't pay my rent every X days, I pay it on the first of the month. I don't want to pay rent that way. It's a good way to get scammed because they're charging you a higher per-day rate in February than January. I'd much rather pay rent per day, if possible. If Amazon can take over my property manager I'm sure it'll be possible to bill it with the same flawless consistency of AWS billing, and have a concept of discounted "reversed instances" and "spot instances" for real estate.
- Negitivefrags 5y ago
  In New Zealand we pay rent every 2 weeks instead of monthly and I’ve seen someone from the US come here and make the opposite argument. “They are scamming you because you have to pay an extra months rent every year”
  - lugged 5y ago
    It's a mixed bag in Aus. Rent is listed per week prices but you'll see some landlords calculate it out by the day rate if you want to pay monthly. Others use the 52 week rate divided by 12.
- squeaky-clean 5y ago
  Per-day still has errors when leap-seconds and daylight savings get involved. It's just a smaller error. And unless you can convince landlords nationwide to change how billing works, a company creating a monthly billing service is just going to find another developer that makes what they want. edit: Also this may not be typical in every lease, but all of my leases have established the rate as both a yearly and monthly amount. I'm sure my landlord wouldn't complain if I paid all 12 months up front. That's the only truly "fair" way.
  - dheera 5y ago
    They should give you a discount for committing to 12 months, and a further discount for paying 12 months upfront. AWS does.
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- BoiledCabbage 5y ago
  > I don't want to pay rent that way. It's a good way to get scammed because they're charging you a higher per-day rate in February than January. Are you serious? They're not scamming you. They're giving you a discount 11 months out of the year. Feb is the only month They're charging you full rate for!
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dheera 5y ago

> I don't pay my rent every X days, I pay it on the first of the month. I don't want to pay rent that way. It's a good way to get scammed because they're charging you a higher per-day rate in February than January. I'd much rather pay rent per day, if possible. If Amazon can take over my property manager I'm sure it'll be possible to bill it with the same flawless consistency of AWS billing, and have a concept of discounted "reversed instances" and "spot instances" for real estate.

Negitivefrags 5y ago
In New Zealand we pay rent every 2 weeks instead of monthly and I’ve seen someone from the US come here and make the opposite argument. “They are scamming you because you have to pay an extra months rent every year”
- lugged 5y ago
  It's a mixed bag in Aus. Rent is listed per week prices but you'll see some landlords calculate it out by the day rate if you want to pay monthly. Others use the 52 week rate divided by 12.
squeaky-clean 5y ago
Per-day still has errors when leap-seconds and daylight savings get involved. It's just a smaller error. And unless you can convince landlords nationwide to change how billing works, a company creating a monthly billing service is just going to find another developer that makes what they want. edit: Also this may not be typical in every lease, but all of my leases have established the rate as both a yearly and monthly amount. I'm sure my landlord wouldn't complain if I paid all 12 months up front. That's the only truly "fair" way.
- dheera 5y ago
  They should give you a discount for committing to 12 months, and a further discount for paying 12 months upfront. AWS does.
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BoiledCabbage 5y ago
> I don't want to pay rent that way. It's a good way to get scammed because they're charging you a higher per-day rate in February than January. Are you serious? They're not scamming you. They're giving you a discount 11 months out of the year. Feb is the only month They're charging you full rate for!
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