Paying with MO's?
Feb 17, 2016, 5:24 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Omaha Nebraska
Programs: United, delta, AA, Alaskan, Frontier, Hilton Gold, Hyatt, Chase Sapphire
Posts: 315
Paying with MO's?
Have a monthly insurance bill of over a 1000 dollars a month and have almost 10000 dollars of property tax. Is there a problem using MO's on bigger bills like this? Thanks
Feb 17, 2016, 6:53 am
#2
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 286
Property tax (and mortgages) are a great use because they can't drop you.
Feb 17, 2016, 7:57 am
#3
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 6
Paying with multiple MOs
Anyone have issues with paying mortgage using multiple MOs (3 or 4 per payment)?
Feb 17, 2016, 9:06 am
#4
Join Date: Mar 2005
Programs: Continental Onepass, Hilton, Marriott, USAir and now UA
Posts: 6,402
)As far as insurance is concerned, look at your bill. Mine specifically said that cash and/or MOs were not acceptable, so a check was really the only means of paying them. There was no credit card option available. If you company does take alternative means of payment, a simple call will confirm if MOs are acceptable.
Feb 17, 2016, 3:33 pm
#5
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 92
Last year I noticed that my health insurance savings account statement said they would accept check or MO. I sent in a healthy stack of MO's, but they sent them back with a note that their (unwritten) policy is to only take a single MO under $500. So you might want to call to confirm. It took several tries to find a bank willing to let me change the endorsement and deposit them to my account. Moneygram wanted $15 each to replace.
Feb 18, 2016, 8:19 am
#6
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: HOU, IAH
Posts: 194
Last year I switched to cc pay for insurance but you have to pay entire year (homeowners) or 6-month policy (auto) to not incur a fee on cc pmt at Nationwide. I've read about overpayments being refunded in cash, but the online bill pay has radio buttons to select entire premium amount, so I wouldn't have a ready answer of "fat finger mistake" for adding an extra thousand or so to the amount. I'll just be happy to get miles on the premiums themselves.
On mortgage pmts, I've switched from BB to checking EFT for the moment until a new avenue opens up. Snail mail has proven unreliable in the past and MO's are notoriously hard to recover funds once gone astray.
On mortgage pmts, I've switched from BB to checking EFT for the moment until a new avenue opens up. Snail mail has proven unreliable in the past and MO's are notoriously hard to recover funds once gone astray.
Feb 19, 2016, 4:07 am
#7
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 779
For property tax, I would just go on-line and see how they accept property tax payment. I did this for my locality and they did take money orders which could be mailed in or paid at certain sites around the city. If you are uncertain, give the tax assessor a call and ask them. (I did that as well just to be sure )
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