Management of Alton Park housing sites restricts payment types

Residents of the Villages at Alton Park no longer can pay rent with money orders.

The management of Villages at Alton Park has said that residents who previously paid rent with money orders now must use moneygrams.

“It’s just a mess,” said Rosemary Porter, president of the Villages at Alton Park Neighborhood Watch.

The change means residents must pay higher fees to get a moneygram rather than a money order.

Instead of walking across 38th Street to purchase a money order at the local branch of Church Koinonia Federal Credit Union, as they did in the past, Alton Park residents now must travel four miles to the closest Walmart in Lookout Valley for the least expensive moneygram.