Friday, June 27, 2014

Learning 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.

One has probably already received a few calls from companies with whom he would owe money to like a phone company. Now the phone company is a prime example of a company that would always run after money from the customers because the service is always given before the payment is made. Of course the collectors have to make sure that the customers would pay their dues on time.

Now usually, the collectors would be running after the debtor once the debtor has not paid the creditor for a few months already. Also, the collectors would start calling once the deadline of the payment is already near. Now after the collector has called, he will also be sending a letter or an email of the details of payment.

Now the main job of the collector is to actually try to coax the debtor to pay the dues in full already or actually earlier than the deadline. They could do this by offering some discounts if early payment has been made or full payment. If not, then some negotiations for other terms can be made.

Now the collectors are educated in the law on obligations and contracts because in the event that the debtor cannot pay, then the collector would have to prepare to take a legal stand on that. Of course in order to inform the debtor on what legal stand the company is going to take, he will need to know about obligations and contracts. Now before he does so, he will have to inform the debtor so that the debtor will also know what to do.

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 remember would be that collectors are not allowed to keep on calling when the debtor requests that these collectors stop calling. Now when this happens, then the next thing that the collector should do would be to just send reminders through email or letters. Now if the collector would disobey this rule, then the debtor may actually file a complaint.

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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