Rent is always due the first of every month. There will be a $50.00 late charge if rent is not in our office by the 5th. If you would like to pay a semester at a time with student loans we will waive the late charge as loans do not come in until the end of the month. If at anytime you would like to pay ahead you are more than welcome to do so.

Payment Options are the following:

*We do not have card capability

Easy Bill Pay

Your bank will withdraw rent from your account and send us a check in the mail. Please make sure you set it up so that the check arrives in our office by the 1st of the month. Make sure the check is made payable to your property owner (name located at the top of lease agreement), your building and apartment number is on the check (example: 1234 #5) and that your name is on the check.

ACH Payments 

An ACH payment is an automated transfer of funds facilitated by the Automated Clearing House, which is a regulated technology representing the partnership between banks and financial institutions across America. Debits and credits are collected in large batches and transferred between bank accounts simultaneously. Otherwise known as eChecks, ACH payments are an efficient and cost-effective way to transfer money. 

Rental Payments

In order to accept ACH rent payments, the tenant must authorize the transaction. This requires their name, bank name, account number, routing number, and the transfer amount. Tenants’ bank accounts must then be verified before the funds can be transferred from their account to yours, which is done through the ACH Network. 

If you want to do ACH for your rent payment please contact us.

Online Bill Pay 

Online bill pay is a service that enables users to securely pay their bills online. The service pulls funds directly from tenants' bank accounts in order to complete the payments. Online Bill Pay allows users to consolidate all of their online accounts used for bill payment to one location — their bank. 

Most banks provide online bill pay as a free service once an account is set up, so the majority of tenants already have access to it. In order for tenants to enable online bill pay, they must: 

• Gather their bills (including account numbers and the addresses where they send payments), 

• Enter each biller’s information into their bank’s online bill pay platform, 

• Choose when to send the payment, 

• Select whether the payment is a recurring or one-time transaction, 

• And set reminders to track when each bill is due. 

If you want to do Online Bill Pay for your rent payment please contact us.

Check payments

If mailing, please send early enough that the check arrives in our office by the 1st of the month. Make sure the check is made payable to your property owner (name located at the top of lease agreement), your building and apartment number is on the check (example: 1234 #5) and that your name is on the check.  Payments can also be dropped off at our office. There is an after hours rent drop box located by the office door.

Mailing address:

Baker Contracting Inc.

PO Box 41

Ames, Iowa 50201

Insufficient fund payments

Rent payments that are returned because of insufficient funds are considered a default in rent. An NSF service charge will be assessed and determined by our cost and labor. If we receive more than 2 NSF payments, you will be required to pay your rent with cash or Money Order only.