Sunday 29 June 2014

Knowing About New York Debt Collection

By Sherry Gross


When one does business, he will always have receivables from clients or other people that he would have run after in order to collect the money. Now it is for this specific reason that there is a new york debt collection department in almost all companies. This is the department that would specialize in handling all the collections and the debts that people owe the company.

Now one has probably experienced being called up by a phone company or an electric company if he has not paid his bill yet. Now these are the main things that the collectors would actually do. They would call up the customers and they would pressure them into paying the debts earlier than the deadline or if they cannot, then at least on the dot.

Of course the collectors will not start running after the debtors right away. Usually, the collectors will start running after these people when the deadline date is already very close. Now after the collector has reminded the debtor of the dues to pay, then the collector will be sending a letter or an email about the details of the outstanding balance.

Now one of the things that the collectors would do would be to try to convince the debtors to pay the debt in full or earlier than the deadline. Now when they cannot pay in full or earlier than the deadline, then they will negotiate for other terms of payment. An example would be payment on installment basis.

Now the thing about collectors is that they are required to study the law on obligations and contracts before they would actually go into this field. Now the reason that one has to do this would simply be because so that they would know how to take legal action when the debtor does not want to pay. When it comes to legal action, the collector has to be the one to inform the debtor what the company plans to do if payment is not made.

Now if there are in house debt collectors, there are also those collectors that would actually work for collection agencies that would do the job for the companies. Sometimes, the companies do not want to do the job themselves because it would be hard for them to do that. So instead of doing the collections themselves, they would hire a collector from one of these agencies in order to deal with the job.

Now one thing to take note of is that collectors are not allowed to call again if the debtors request for them not to call again. However, the collectors still do have the right to send written notifications and reminders or emails regarding the outstanding payments the debtors have. Should the collectors still call even after the request was made, the debtor may take legal action.

So if one would want to enter this type of field, then here are some things that he should know about. Now if one does decide to go into this line, he would have to prepare to have a bad reputation because everyone hates someone running after them for money. It is for this reason that good communication skills are necessary.




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