Your debt will then get sold to a third - party
debt collection company so that the banks can make additional profit, not having any regard for your personal life and the long - term devastating effects they just inflicted on your life.
Not exact matches
So if a
debt collection company in South Dakota is harassing you over a
debt,
debt validation can put a stop to that harassment fast.
Most people are confused about how these loans work;
so very rarely; do consumers have the knowledge to challenge these
debt collection companies.
Should that happen, the credit card
company should reduce the balance to zero and the
collection agency should report the
debt, but if the credit card
company fails to do
so, the same information can appear multiple times.
Answering these calls may produce an opportunity to settle these
debts for less than the full amount though
so speaking with the
debt collection company might be worth pursuing.
As explained in this post, your private student loans start out one place but end up — who knows where... There is NO paper trail following the history of a private student loan,
so do you expect the
debt collection company to validate the
debt once challenged?
Once a
debt is disputed the
debt collection company has 30 days to provide everything being requested or stop
collection on the
debt, and in many cases, they can't produce what's required
so consumers get to walk away without paying.
Credit: To begin negotiations with lenders,
debt settlement
companies often encourage you to stop paying your bills altogether
so they go to
collections.
I am about 20,000 Dalars in
debt I have a student loan for 1500 on one and about 7500 hundred on the other one, I am savirley behind on my day to day bills I am now at the point of
company's are passing me as a client around
so I'm now getting charged by every
company in town, I have a new baby due at the end of the month And I do not want to be in
debt for the rest of my life, I also have moltaple payday loans owing, and I have a credit card that shouldn't have gone wrong its sitting about 580.00 it's starting to get really frusterating when I can't pay it all off plus not to mention I have a few
collections in mobile
companies, Rogers and Telus very frusterating -.
The
debt collection company will then add - on more fees
so that they are profitable.
With
so many people unable to pay off their student loan
debt, the federal government has hired private
debt collection companies to go after those with delinquent student loan
debts.
There are laws that regulate credit card and
debt collection companies, different laws for each,
so if these laws are not abided by,
debt can also be either dismissed or invalidated.
The representative from settlement
company negotiates with your creditors and / or
collection agencies to reduce the payoff amount
so that you can get rid of
debts through a lump sum payment on each account.
«Explore strategic partnerships with
debt buyers and
collection agencies
so that settlements can be «pre-agreed» to between the
companies.
Either the
company can not do anything for you and is lying to you about the results that they are providing
so that they can take more of your money or your
debts are more than seven years old, which would put them beyond the statute of limitations on
debt collection.
The primary consumer protection problem areas that have given rise to the States» actions include: (1) unsubstantiated claims of consumer savings; (2) deceptive representations about the length of time necessary to complete a
debt relief program; (3) misleading or failing to adequately inform consumers that they will be subject to continued
collection efforts, including lawsuits, and that their account balances will increase due to extended nonpayment under the program; (4) deceptive disparagement of consumer credit counseling; (5) deceptive disparagement of bankruptcy as an alternative for debtors; (6) lack of screening and analysis to determine suitability of
debt relief programs for individual debtors; (7) the
collection of substantial up - front fees
so the
debt relief
company gains even if it fails to perform; (8) lack of transparency and information for consumers as to payment of fees, status of accounts, and communications with creditors; (9) significant delays in active negotiation or engagement with creditors, coupled with prohibitions on direct consumer communications with creditors; and (10), in the case of
debt settlement
companies, basing savings claims (and settlement fees) not on the original account balance, but on the inflated amount due (including late fees and default rates of interest) at the time of settlement.
What happens here is that
companies often write off your
debt if you haven't paid it and after a certain amount of time they turn over the
debt to a
collection agency to help them collect and they're getting paid on a percentage of whatever they collect or the
debt might be sold to them and
so they're trying to recover more than the price paid for the
debts.
Without knowing the whole story, all I can tell you is that if those credit cards are still open and have not been sent to
collections, talk with the credit card
companies to agree to either remove the negative
debt once you have made payment or reage your account
so that again that negative info isn't showing.
And even more
so, when a
debt is with a third - party
debt collection company.
So, what this means it that all
collection agents and
debt settlement
companies are now regulated under the same Act.
I would definitely go after them, if not in court, at least send to a
collections company so it hits their credit and shows up as they have a housing
debt.