Sunday 28 August 2011

Where to Turn for Help Collecting My Debts?

By Judy Anderson


Whatever type of business you are in, there will those customer who either can't pay their debt or do not want to pay. Even though you have offered them various ways to pay their debts, it has not worked. These debtors do not call you back, reply to letters or care that you need your money.

This is when you have to know exactly who you are trying to communicate with in your collecting efforts and how you will in the end get what they owe you. You need to turn to a professional collector to assist in your efforts to do this. Most of the time, you can choose from two options, eight an attorney to help you with your collections, or a business, which purpose is all about collecting debts. Either choice you need to look at the advantage each one offers you.

Attorney

If you are planning to hire an attorney, you need to make sure that you are looking at someone who specializes in the collection of debts. You need to make sure that they know what it is you expect of them. you will also need to look into the type of track record that this attorney has and how successful they are at getting people to pay their debts. These people do not continue the trend of making calls and sending letters. Well at first they will in the hopes that the person who owes the money will feel more obligated when an attorney is contacting them. If this does not happen, then the next step will be to go and try to collect money with litigation.teh attorney you are using will want to be paid for their work. In most cases, it is either an hourly fee or one third of the debt collected. It may be both depending on the attorney as well as depending on the size of the debt that they are trying to collect.

Consider an Agency

Now with an agency for debt relief, just know it works for you. It will do the collecting of your debt for you. The agency will deal with all the problems of collecting funds, but for a price. It will cost you as much as 50% of what the agency collects. This amount you pay the agency will depend on how much it can collect from your debtors and how difficult it is. Think about the debt's size and decide if special-payment arrangements will need to be offered to get the money paid off to you.

Regardless of the situation you will at some point need to hire one or both of these in order to get your debtors in line.




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