Landlord & Tenant Collections

  • Tenant must not be in the apartment
  • Please fill out collections form and attach the following: copy of lease, rent breakdown, money judgment (if applicable).
  • Note: You should understand that there are no guarantees to recover any money on your judgment. Your chances of collecting are directly related to the resources of the debtor. Obviously, the likelihood of having your judgment satisfied is remote where the debtor has no known property, income, many prior judgments, or merely a very small salary, receives social security, other government benefits or country welfare (most of the latter cannot be executed agains).
  • A judgment is valid for a period of twenty (20) years. If the judgment is not collected upon the first attempt, further attempts to collect may be made at a later date.
  • Please be advised that any case where the debtor is on public assistance, social security, disability, homeless, bankrupt, or working off the books are not good cases. We cannot collect on those cases.
  • Please send cases to our office, where the debtor has a job, owns property, and/or has over $1,740.00 in a bank account
  • Cases are put into an individual monitoring system for the following reasons: no current address, no employment
  • Any new information that appears on the debtor's credit report is sent to our office. In order to sue, a current address is required. In order to collect, a current employer or bank account with monies over $1,740.00 is requried.
  • Each case is different, so our office cannot give you a time frame or what will appear on the individual's credit report.
  • The statute of limitations to begin a L&T collection case is six (6) years. After six (6) years, we cannot sue a debtor. Please do not send L&T collection cases that exceed six (6) years unless there is a money judgement.