How Do You Ensure You're Never Without Rent Money?

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When my husband and I moved in here, it was made very clear that rent day was on the 1st (as it should be), but that didn't change the fact that we got the majority of our monthly money on the third! This place was almost double the rent of the last place we lived in (again for good reason, since this place is so much better) so having the money by the first could have been a bit inconvenient. Fortunately, because of the unfair circumstances in which EVERYONE had to vacate the old building, we were all given an amount of money which, for us, covered first and last month's rent in this place! Since rent had already been taken care of, we took rent money and put it away for the following month, Then the month after, on the 3rd we took the same amount of money and put it away for the following month, essentially paying our rent a month ahead. We would move the rent money into a special savings account where it would collect interest for a month, and then on the last day of the month, we move it into our checking account, so that it would be automatically withdrawn the next day. We've lived here for four years now, and that system has never failed us. once we put the money into the rent account, we consider it "paid out" even though we're still technically in possession of it.