People like your buddy are the reason I’m not in the business of renting. I have too many friends that have been taken across by deadbeat tenants. Late on the rent is measured in days not months.
Seems all the self righteous twits are deathly afraid of putting pen to paper, though they can snipe well from behind screen names. This landlady was blowing hot and cold on the issue, pretending it was no big deal then getting into sudden snits. And never, ever, bothering to send a certified letter. (And no lease.) Even Old Testament times had better defined terms for commercial transactions.