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How Long Does Bad Credit Last?

Credit Corp

Keep in mind that a creditor writing off your unpaid debt as a loss doesn’t mean you don’t owe the debt. Your creditor may sell your charged-off debt to a collection agency for pennies on the dollar. The collection agency may then attempt to collect the debt anew.

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Sixth Circuit Decision Highlights the Risk of Initiating Collection Remedies During the FDCPA’s Validation Period

BN Lawyers

A debt collector is free to collect during the thirty-day period as long as it does not overshadow or contradict the consumer’s thirty-day rights. Whether easy or difficult, the Act mandates that the debt collector cease its collection efforts until the required information has been mailed to the consumer. Trott Law, P.C. ,

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How To Remove Negative Items From Your Credit Report

Better Credit Blog

Whatever you’re dealing with, late payments, collections, charge-offs, or foreclosures, the following techniques can clean up your credit quickly. Collection). Write a letter to the original creditor or collection agency and ask them to remove the negative entry from your credit history as an act of goodwill.

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What to do When You’re Served Papers for a Debt

Debt RR

When faced with mounting debt, it’s inevitable that someone will come to collect. When courts get involved, debt collection gets serious. Creditors usually send several notices prior to filing a complaint with the court. Debts are often sold, so it may not be the original creditor filing the claim.

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Avoiding Overshadowing Claims

FDCPA Defense

Section 1692g requires that within five days of the “initial communication with a consumer in connection with the collection of any debt” a collector must send the consumer a written notice containing, inter alia , the amount of the debt, and the name of the creditor to whom the debt is owed. See 15 U.S.C. 1692g(a)(1), (2).

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For Attorneys Representing Community Associations: A Primer On FDCPA Class Actions And How To Avoid Them

FDCPA Defense

(This post is adopted from the materials presented at the CAI Law Seminar in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 20, 2017) Demystifying the FDCPA Class Action For HOA Attorneys Consumer attorneys have been filing FDCPA class actions against collection attorneys for decades, and the pace of those filings has increased sharply in the past ten years.

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Bankruptcy Disclaimer Did Not Violate FDCPA

Consumer Financial Services Law

In those cases, the Sixth Circuit concluded that foreclosure proceedings are debt collection. fka Standard Federal Bank has retained our law firm to begin foreclosure proceedings on the above referenced property. IS THE CREDITOR'S ATTORNEY AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT ON ITS BEHALF. LLC, 704 F.3d