If you give a check for possibly moving into a rental that you thought you were going to take. Then decided to not take the rental and put a stop on the check and told the person you changed your mind. Even thought the renter wrote out a receipt saying that a months rent was received and security.
Is that a binding agreement? I didn't sign a lease. I simple changed my mind and didn't move in. The check was post dated for the day that I thought I might have moved in and stopped two days before that date and I contacted the renter.
The renter said that I own the place and is after my money, but I didn't sign a contract, a lease.
Can this person prevail on the grounds that I gave him/her a check with the assumption that I was maybe going to move in.
Can him/her collect money because of this.
Thank you
The state is New York.

