She recently learned that the second rent check had been lost in the mail, and a replacement could not be issued until it was found.

He only occasionally appears there and his rent checks are mailed from out of town.

Since the lease has always been in her name, she writes all the rent checks.

And if his rent check doesn't bounce, I'll assume he's reliable.

Some of the fund's recipients are people who need one-time help with a rent check.

Every two or three years, the post office box where she was to send her rent check moved to a different place in Brooklyn.

Every rent check is a lease on another month's life.

She reaches him and says he wasn't supposed to be there, then remembers the rent check.

She'd left her job early to give Pardon her rent check.

In early June, though, his rent check for $7,400 was returned, and he received an eviction notice.