Send X-Tenants directly to Collections

Send X-Tenants directly to Collections by Rick (Florida) on November 3, 2009 @09:04

Recently I have lost 3 different tenants for non-payment of rent. They have all moved out and promised to pay the back rent. But you know how that works, they never pay. I also have billed them for damages to the property (over and above the security deposit amount), of course I have never seen the money! I know in the state of Florida if I bring them to court and win the court will not enforce the judgment and it is up to me to collect. Therefore there is no intensive for the x-tenant to pay the judgment. The final result will be bringing the x-tenants to a collection agency. Now I am not only out the unpaid rent and damages but I am also out the court cost, not to mention all the time and trouble.

My question is can I bypass the court proceedings and just bring the the x-tenants directly to collections for the unpaid rent and damages?

(I know I will need to pay the collection company a large fee, but something is better then nothing at this point)

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Re: Send X-Tenants directly to Collections by Ultimate M-Bone on November 3, 2009 @10:12

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You are looking through rose colored glasses. Wouldn't we all love to go the easy route to make our x tenants pay what 'we think they owe' This is why you go to court, because the judge will determin what he/she thinks the tenants owe. If you could go directly to collections, what's to stop you from claiming they owe you thousands more than they really do? Besides that getting a judgment on them hurts their credit.

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Maybe Micah can loan you his cousin Guido!

Re: Send X-Tenants directly to Collections by OK-LL on November 3, 2009 @15:10	[ Reply ]
When you say the court won't enforce the judgment, do you mean you cannot garnish wages and bank accounts in FL? And that you can't ask for judgment to include continuing attorney fees?

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