Hey everyone! So I did type up a letter, explaining the situation, but I also talked to her about it face to face. I could tell she was pretty annoyed. I told her that I need everyone to pay me on the same day because I am running a small business and need to do bookkeeping and be organized. She argued for a bit about how she doesn't think it's going to work out now because she is going to have a hard time setting that money aside. I told her that I understand, but that the other parents have to do the exact same thing. She just kept saying she'd try but that she wasn't sure it would work out -- she even said that she definitely won't be able to for the next pay day (April 30). I told her we could start the pay day after that but she was still pretty argumentative. I just told her that I have budgeting that I need to do too, and I need everyone to pay me on the same day.

She's in her early forties. And yet she can't just set aside the $350 and not touch it? I get that she's a single mom, but she is getting child support payments from BOTH fathers of her two children, and she works full-time. I want to be a kind person, and try to help people as much as I can, but this is still my business and I need to do what works for me. I'd hate to lose a client over this but she seems pretty set against it.

I think it's pretty crazy that she came right out and said she wouldn't be able to this time, and then started complaining about the late fee I'd have to charge her. That's why I told her I could start for the next payment after that. But ugh. She doesn't seem very happy.