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Tonja Hammer


Country United States
State Alaska
City Wasilla
Address 4741 W Binnacle Dr,
Phone 907-355-3032

Tonja Hammer Reviews

  • Oct 5, 2015

She capitalized on my trust and lack of logistical efficacy of automatic bill pay of my Alaska USA Federal Credit Union account sending her $800 every pay check to pay the $1600 rent.

Over the course of 2 years of tenancy, there were months were I received more than two paychecks for example. In those months, we had a verbal agreement that she destroyed those checks, and I trusted her. Earlier this summer, she told me again that she had all these additional checks (we have been paying rent every month with no delinquencies mind you) and that she would destroy them. How it works is that my bank was automatically set up to write her the $800 check every pay period, written to her, in my name. Well over 2 years, she didn’t destroy the checks, but rather, would hold onto the extra ones as they would accrue, and deposit only the oldest checks before they reached 90 days old. I didn’t think much of this, so when we moved out, we had paid our rent (and have electronic images of the checks from my bank to prove it), and an e-mail from her stating that she still had these checks,

but would not deposit them, as we were paid through the month of September; but she deposited 6 checks in total that she just kept carrying over month to month, ONLY depositing the checks that were close to 90 days old so as to still keep a stock of my checks that could be used while being able to pay rent with the oldest possible, yet still viable checks. I hope this makes sense, it’s somewhat convoluted, and I apologize. But to summarize, we paid rent, she had extra checks, and deposited them the day after our Permanent Fund Dividends were direct deposited into my account. In Alaska, each proven resident gets a permanent fund dividend, that includes, me, my wife, and my 4 children. This year, it was $2,072 per person. She knew this, and deposited those checks the next day. That’s what happened.

Now, she also still has our $1,600 deposit as well. In total, $6,400 of what I believe is my money according to the Alaska Tenant Landlord Act of 2014, and because she knowingly deposited money intended for rent after rent was already paid for our entire tenancy. So, we didn’t live rent free, she was getting rent every month, but on occasion an additional check every few months due to the number of days in a pay period twice a month, being just a little less than a full month, hence the extra checks generated through my automatic bill pay from my bank. My bank cannot assist with this as the checks “were made out to her with your name on them.” However the fraud department assured me that I could take her to small claims, which is apropos of little as I’m already aware of my capacity to do so, and that I’m not just going to sit here and do nothing while she essentially commits a legal form of check fraud due to a loophole in my bill pay.

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