I would take a different approach with the collection company
Tom Send a noteboard - 25/07/2018 11:14:43 PM
You can offer to take over the payments only if they agree to allow you to assume the liability but with a significant enough discount, with the alternative being that they can try to collect on someone who is slipping into insolvency with few to no assets of her own. It makes the decision a bit easier on their part because they either have to sink time and effort into someone they might never collect from on the one hand, or take a bit of a haircut but know they'll get paid. It's a no brainer that way. The amounts in question are too low for litigation to really make sense.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
This message last edited by Tom on 25/07/2018 at 11:15:59 PM
So... when do you take over for a parent?
- 24/07/2018 10:15:44 PM
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Yeah the downside is what you said about her driving.
- 24/07/2018 10:29:59 PM
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Yeah... banks and collection companies are assholes in those cases.
- 24/07/2018 11:29:16 PM
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Re: Yeah... banks and collection companies are assholes in those cases.
- 25/07/2018 04:31:49 PM
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Re: Yeah... banks and collection companies are assholes in those cases.
- 25/07/2018 10:46:51 PM
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I use checks from time to time
- 26/07/2018 12:39:51 PM
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Anyone can have a credit card machine. It's a small plastic square you plug into your iphone.
- 26/07/2018 03:22:29 PM
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The last check I wrote was $45 to the 14yo who mows the front part of a piece of property I own
- 27/07/2018 02:16:23 PM
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He'd have texted his bank account number, and I'd have sent a bank transfer. *NM*
- 27/07/2018 05:14:50 PM
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I would take a different approach with the collection company
- 25/07/2018 11:14:43 PM
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Well I know I don't want to pay a lawyer.
- 27/07/2018 02:27:49 PM
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I'm not suggesting that
- 27/07/2018 05:50:08 PM
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As soneone who ran a debt collection agency for about 6 years...
- 28/07/2018 05:38:20 PM
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Did you ever break anyone's thumbs? 
*NM*
- 31/07/2018 04:45:41 AM
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*NM*
- 31/07/2018 04:45:41 AM
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Yeah but off the clock and she begged for more :p *NM*
- 31/07/2018 04:49:20 AM
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Liar. Only two thumbs. Unless she begged you to break someone else’s thumbs... *NM*
- 03/08/2018 06:27:30 AM
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