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Learning, Sharing, and Teaching => Real Estate and Landlording => Topic started by: dandarc on February 28, 2019, 11:26:17 AM
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I just got a voicemail from a collections agency asking to verify tenancy for my tenant. Should I call them back?
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This type of call is why I never answer the phone unless I recognize the number. My approach is not to call back. I have no idea who is calling no matter what the caller says and I do not share any information about my tenants unless there is a legal requirement to do so. I do note the date and time of the call, and the alleged identity of the caller.
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No way.
From a purely selfish standpoint, if your tenants have debt, you want to be first in line to collect any money. They don't need to be stressed trying to pay a collection agency as well.
Second, collection agencies are 95% scumbags. Fuck 'em.
Third, what Another Read posted.
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I just got a voicemail from a collections agency asking to verify tenancy for my tenant. Should I call them back?
I do not do business with people who call me on the phone if I do not know them already or I have not contacted them to ask to do business with them.
Period.
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I just got a voicemail from a collections agency asking to verify tenancy for my tenant. Should I call them back?
No, you should not call them back. No good can possibly come of it, so why would you go out of your way?
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So, I made a stupid. Company actually writes auto loans - tenant actually asked me to call them back because he's buying a car.
Saw very low ratings in google, a generic business name, and a brief "we've been buying contracts since . . . tag line" and thought "debt collector".
So thanks for the advice - I don't field calls from unknown numbers and will continue to not do that, however this case was actually pretty innocuous.