You are experiencing financial problems and want to ask your landlord if you can pay your rent late. Write a letter to your landlord. In your letter explain: Why you cannot pay the rent When you will pay the rent. How you will ensure you can pay your rent in the future
Hello Mr. Lyle
First of all, I want
you
to apologise because I cannot send you the next payment for my rent because Correct pronoun usage
apply
last
week my bank
account was blocked due to
suspicious activities. For
this
reason, my bank
stopped all my transactions.
The good news is that my bank
promised me that they would unblock my account end of this
week so I will be able to send you my payment as soon as possible.
For the future, I organised an appointment with my personal banker where i
want to talk about insuranceChange the capitalization
I
,
so that even if my account is blocked again the Remove the comma
apply
bank
sends the money anyway.
I hope that I didn't have too much trouble with the late payment.
Thank you PeterSubmitted by andrea.kroupova on
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coherence cohesion
Ensure that all reasons for not being able to pay rent and future arrangements are clearly separated into paragraphs for better readability.
task achievement
Use more formal language when addressing your landlord, such as 'apologize' instead of 'want you to apologize' and 'at the end of this week' instead of 'end of this week.'
task achievement
The letter provides clear reasons for the inability to make the payment and outlines the steps to resolve this in the future.
coherence cohesion
Good structure with a clear opening greeting and closing statement.
The Closing
The style of the letter determine how you have to close it.
Check out the suggested closing sentences for each type of letter in the General IELTS Test. The closing sentence should be the last sentence of your letter.
Formal style (To someone you have not met, whose name you don’t know)
- Yours faithfully,
Semi-formal (To someone you may or may not have met, whose last name you know)
- Yours sincerely,
Informal (To someone you know well, whose first name you know and use)
- Best regards,
- Warm wishes,
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