Recent content by NatMerc

All judgments will affect your credit rating, I presume that Veda et al check the court listings daily and add them to your file. It can affect your credit rating for up to 15 years, which is much longer than the usual 5 years you get for a standard default, eg unpaid or overdue phone bill.

Thanks for all your help SS's, just found a website who charges 4c a message which is half the price we were paying before. David

Thanks mflying, we can get an actual business plan and we're talking a couple of hundred SMS's a day at most, no more than youre average teenager I would imagine so I don't think it would breach a "Fair usage Policy", but I would need to go through the T&C's when signing. Any idea where I can...

Hi all, we're looking for a cheap and easy way to send SMS's from a PC. At the moment we use SMS Global who charge 8.5cents per SMS, we send thousands a month so it adds up. You can get mobile phone plans for $30 per month that have unlimited SMS's and would be a lot cheaper but from my...

This is true but in my experience very very rare, we've had thousands who have gone bankrupt but only a couple of instances where we have been able to pursue the spouse and this has always been because they have transferred property to the spouse's name when they could see litigation looming.

Just keep returning the mail, if that fails call the companies that are still sending mail, the debt collectors will stop once they know the tenant has moved out. And the sheriff or repossession agent wont take anything from the new resident, there's a lot of hoops they need to go through...

Hi Bhp19, is there any information on the tenancy application that can help you locate them, eg work, email, previous address, emergency contact? These are all usually listed on the tenancy application the tenant fills out when applying for the property, you need to go through this with a fine...

Be surprised if it was scam, there's many companies around like this that regularly check the unclaimed monies list and then locate the missing recipients and charge them a % of the amount once it's reclaimed. If it was a scam they would just be randomly contacting people, not going through the...

Spot on. We get tenants calling us years later saying they are sick of having to rent privately and want to get their names removed. Very important for self managers to do a TICA check.

Hi dreamgirl, I haven't done it myself but have had many clients go through the process with relative ease, you have to pay to lodge them or become a member but it's only a small amount. The good thing is it will greatly increase your chances of getting you money back as it's very hard for...

The short answer is you're probably throwing good money after bad if you're suing someone with no assets and no intention to pay. Do they have a job, if so there's always a chance of getting an attachment on their earnings?

You're actually not allowed to use the electoral anymore for anything except checking your own enrollment details, of course you can just tell the staff member that you are checking your own details and they'll never know... You're probably better using or at least starting with a skip...

Hi Vitamin Sound very frustrating but can't you try and track them down and recover the money your'e owed? Didn't they supply an application form with all their next of kin details, work details, previous addresses etc? The agent should have all this and should also have a debt collector they...

Hi xcesiv We use Brookmost http://www.brookmost.com.au/ for all our process serving. Highly recommend them, will probably cost you around $60+ Cheers

Hi jart78, depending on the evidence you have there it sounds like it could be tough proving the agent was negligent in their actions. How long passed from when you told the agent to evict the tenant and when the tenant actually vacated the property? Have you tried pursuing the tenants for...