1.   I always mailed my rent check on time, along with my phone and utilities bills.

2.   Last week Dave had to forge his signature on a rent check.

3.   Life on the ship involves no rent checks or utility bills.

4.   At the leasing office of my apartment complex, I ran into Laura Garrison, the accountant who handles my rent checks and utilities.

5.   Before the Cliburn, they rarely knew where the next rent check would come from.

6.   But now Hu is trading in his rent check for a mortgage on a new home under construction in the San Francisco suburb of Castro Valley.

7.   He refused to give the rent check to the man Harari regularly sent to collect it.

8.   Hundreds of children were living in the building, and the city said it would refuse to issue rent checks to homeless families housed there.

9.   If getting such a letter is difficult, Plotkin said, the tenant can use canceled rent checks to prove that rent payments were made on time.

10.   Landlords say it is unfair to paint them as avaricious business people who have no regard for their tenants aside from the monthly rent check.