Wage Assigment For Renter?

Is it legal to have a wage assignment added to a lease agreement if tenant defaults on lease?

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  • SavvyYoungster8th November, 2004

    Wage assignment? I'm not sure what this is. Is this like garnishing wages?
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  • astcptlmgmnt8th November, 2004

    Yes I believe that a wage assignent/wage garnishment are one in the same! Have you ever seen this done before as I have a good canidate tenant with 10yrs on job and so, so credit.
    Just wanted to cover my losses if any.

  • astcptlmgmnt12th November, 2004

    Quote:
    On 2004-11-08 18:52, astcptlmgmnt wrote:
    Yes I believe that a wage assignent/wage garnishment are one in the same! Have you ever seen this done before as I have a good canidate tenant with 10yrs on job and so, so credit.
    Just wanted to cover my losses if any.

  • bellybean17th November, 2004

    I know that in Florida you NEED to have this if you ever have to obtain a judgment against a nonpaying tenant. Florida has this strange law that says you cannot garnish a person's wages unless they have agreed to it in writing. I realized the way to get someone to agree to it in writing is by putting it in the lease. After I learned this, I added this to my leases and the next tenant signed without even questioning this. It says something like: "if a judgment is obtained against the Resident in connection with this agreement, Resident agrees to have his/her wages garnished until said judgment has been paid in full".

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