After signing up at williampaid.com, renters can pay the rent free via bank transfer or with a credit card, for a fee of 2.95% of the total amount.

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This is partly the fault of a primitive banking system: there are no cheques, few credit cards, and paying by bank-transfer means an hour or so in a smelly queue.

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Cash could be put into the service using a credit card, bank wire, postal money order or other money transfer service.

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Fed up with excessive bank fees, Los Angeles art gallery owner, Kristen Christian, named November 5 Bank Transfer Day to inspire those angry at the big banks to move their money to smaller banks and credit unions.

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