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[StFly]

Thanks for your post, it's a big help. Just with this one in particular, the problem being is that I did the work at his former rental address, and he's moved (presumably) back to Melbourne. So now I have no idea where he lives. All I have is a phone number, a name, and an email address.

Frankly, I wouldn't care if the debt collectors paid me $10 for the debt, provided they chase him down and make him pay. It's more about the principle than anything else.



This is great, thanks very much

Phones these days all have GPS that can be tracked, you also know he moved so know where he was and who he hung around with to also maybe get information about where he might actually be, since a rental has owners who would need to be informed or new tenants and things for example.

So just deal with what you do have, as you have his name, his phone, his email, where he was, who he hung with or was around, so you essentially have more than you think you do if you think "I need to find this person and will do whatever it takes".

 

[ScrappyDo]

Thanks for your post, it's a big help. Just with this one in particular, the problem being is that I did the work at his former rental address, and he's moved (presumably) back to Melbourne. So now I have no idea where he lives. All I have is a phone number, a name, and an email address.

Frankly, I wouldn't care if the debt collectors paid me $10 for the debt, provided they chase him down and make him pay. It's more about the principle than anything else.



This is great, thanks very much

I have to disagree with fly here. $200 is a cheap lesson for you and it's not an amount worth worrying about.
1. Send him a final notice and offer a payment plan. Advise that if a response is not forthcoming by xxx date the debt will be sold to a collection agency and do not backtrack on the terms stated in the final notice.
2. If no response comes, just sell the debt. Not sure $200 is even worth buying for an agency but it's the threat you're leveraging.
3. Take the lesson and move on.

 

[StFly]

I have to disagree with fly here. $200 is a cheap lesson for you and it's not an amount worth worrying about.
1. Send him a final notice and offer a payment plan. Advise that if a response is not forthcoming by xxx date the debt will be sold to a collection agency and do not backtrack on the terms stated in the final notice.
2. If no response comes, just sell the debt. Not sure $200 is even worth buying for an agency but it's the threat you're leveraging.
3. Take the lesson and move on.

It's an either or really, I'm just pissy as dealing with probate things still so go the "have sword, will stab" options at present.

Really a you do you either way, just yay options.

 

[jwikked]

This stuff never gets old lol. Trump rules

When asked which natural talent of Barron's stands out to Donald, the president praised his son's technological know-how.


“I turn off his laptop, I said, 'Oh good,' and I go back five minutes later, he's got his laptop. I said, 'How'd you do that?' " he recalled. "'None of your business, Dad.' "


"He’s got an unbelievable aptitude in technology," the president added.

Two alphas butting heads.

Donald Trump Asked Son Barron 'How'd You Do That?' When He Turned on a Laptop: 'Unbelievable Aptitude in Technology'

Barron Trump is studying business, interested in politics and has an 'unbelievable aptitude in technology,' according to Donald Trump, who told Fox News that he was impressed to learn his Gen Z son knew how to get back on a laptop after it was turned off

people.com

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Thanks for your post, it's a big help. Just with this one in particular, the problem being is that I did the work at his former rental address, and he's moved (presumably) back to Melbourne. So now I have no idea where he lives. All I have is a phone number, a name, and an email address.

Frankly, I wouldn't care if the debt collectors paid me $10 for the debt, provided they chase him down and make him pay. It's more about the principle than anything else.



This is great, thanks very much

My Ex used to work in a major bank in their business centre.
We used to see the internal job lists , and one of them was for "Skip Tracer".
Basically someone would bugger off and they needed to track them down. Of course she was all " oh their asking for this experience and i only have this... " but they always ask for more than they end up settling for. She always regretted not going for it after she knew who got the position.

Years ago i had a guy from Radio Rentals knock on the door of my new rental flat.
He was friendly enough, and quickly realised i wasn't the one who owed them for a heap of appliances.
Had a bit of a chat, and he was happy enough and not phased by it. "it happens all the time, we'll find them, we always find them ".

 

[StFly]

On a whim, decided to get pringles chili and lime as on special. I thought why not actually look at the ingredients...

There is no lime in the product at all.

Potato yep, chili yep, cumin, paprika, onion, garlic, msg and the lime is from some acidity regulation.

The actual.. it's literally chili and insert powder here. Last time I'll be getting that then as hey, I can pulp some potato and dehydrate it, I have ceyenne chili powder, onion powder, cumin, garlic and I have a lime tree outside to make my own proper one.

But man if I were that sort there being no lime but just rando acid regulation with generic "citrus" label and go have a cry to ACA or something.

 

[Yawkey way]

Look at norway and weep, it is a an economic travesty for how er pissed away our resources and a party is over.

Wealth inequality is rampant, and yet the so called "golden age of capitalism" happened when the rich and corporations paid their taxes.

Post war and it didn’t last long, in fact it’s not the norm history tells us that. Gary Stevenson who’s on YouTube under Garys economics is an interesting guy and worth a listen. He’s had his problems but I find his posts confronting and accurate, his views largely accord with my own which I’m sure will surprise some.

It’s pretty simple we need to start taxing and redistributing the wealth or very quickly our kids and grandkids will wind up modern day peasants. Forget all this crap about how the boomers ripped off gen Z or whoever, that’s just the typical tactic of setting us on each other. Some poor bastard who lived his life worked hard and is now about to retire in relative comfort isn’t your target.

 

[gringo2011]

Post war and it didn’t last long, in fact it’s not the norm history tells us that. Gary Stevenson who’s on YouTube under Garys economics is an interesting guy and worth a listen. He’s had his problems but I find his posts confronting and accurate, his views largely accord with my own which I’m sure will surprise some.

It’s pretty simple we need to start taxing and redistributing the wealth or very quickly our kids and grandkids will wind up modern day peasants. Forget all this crap about how the boomers ripped off gen Z or whoever, that’s just the typical tactic of setting us on each other. Some poor bastard who lived his life worked hard and is now about to retire in relative comfort isn’t your target.

Government was hijacked by corporations.

 

[True Believer]

Government was hijacked by corporations.

Correction - government was handed over to corporations, by those in government, for a fee......

 

[BigPowerForward]

An interesting video suggestion on YouTube
I wonder if I should watch it

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Post war and it didn’t last long, in fact it’s not the norm history tells us that. Gary Stevenson who’s on YouTube under Garys economics is an interesting guy and worth a listen. He’s had his problems but I find his posts confronting and accurate, his views largely accord with my own which I’m sure will surprise some.

It’s pretty simple we need to start taxing and redistributing the wealth or very quickly our kids and grandkids will wind up modern day peasants. Forget all this crap about how the boomers ripped off gen Z or whoever, that’s just the typical tactic of setting us on each other. Some poor bastard who lived his life worked hard and is now about to retire in relative comfort isn’t your target.

My two brothers and i inherited a rental house from my parents. We decided to keep it in joint names , and use any money earned to fund the other holiday house we inherited ( nothing glamorous ), rates , insurance etc.

The real estate agent has practically been hassling us to put the rent up, constantly reminding us that we are charging less than the market rate.
The tenant has been there for years, probably a decade, a single mum i think. The house is long ago paid off.

Tell me one good reason apart from greed why we should put the rent up?

We somehow need to create a housing surplus ( because ostraya doesn't have acres and acres of empty land ), then people who charge too much will struggle to get tenants.
If that happens, those who are maxed out on finance, will need to run at a loss, or sell their house, putting downward pressure on the market.

 

[Sully111]

True story.. hand on heart

Chatting with the girlfriend tonight. Went on a tangent... Just riffing…. Got no appreciation.

Me: So imagine there were these conjoined twins right…..

Her: o….k

Me: They’re like… 48 years old… and it hasn’t gone well

Her: o….k

Me: They’re chicks… and they really don’t get along. There’s pretty much been angst from the get go. One is a born again Christian, the other is a raging militant atheist. One works at a shelter for lost puppies (the atheist).. the other is a high class call girl.

Her:

Me: One is engaged to be married but she fell asleep one night and woke up to find her fiancé shagging the other one. She went off her brain. The fiance tried to get out of it by saying he got them mixed up. She was like “mixed up?! Mixed up?! It’s not that hard. I’m the one on the left!”

Her:

Me: Anyway so they’ve had enough. Their Mum suggests that maybe they could have an operation to be separated. It’s not something that ever really crossed their mind but they thought they’d find out about it so they head to the doctor. They ask the doctor if the surgery would potentially be life threatening. The doctor explains that wouldn’t be the case as they’re just joined at the elbow…. Actually it’s just a loose bit of elbow skin holding them together. The girls enquire as to what the surgery would entail. The Doc says he could just give them a little snip with a pair of scissors, or they could just walk in opposite directions fairly briskly. They ask what recovery would be like. The Doc says you’d both need a bandaid. “How big a bandaid” they ask. “Just an average bandaid” answers the doc…. “Wouldn’t it come off in the shower”…..

Her: walks off shaking her head

 

[StFly]

My two brothers and i inherited a rental house from my parents. We decided to keep it in joint names , and use any money earned to fund the other holiday house we inherited ( nothing glamorous ), rates , insurance etc.

The real estate agent has practically been hassling us to put the rent up, constantly reminding us that we are charging less than the market rate.
The tenant has been there for years, probably a decade, a single mum i think. The house is long ago paid off.

Tell me one good reason apart from greed why we should put the rent up?

We somehow need to create a housing surplus ( because ostraya doesn't have acres and acres of empty land ), then people who charge too much will struggle to get tenants.
If that happens, those who are maxed out on finance, will need to run at a loss, or sell their house, putting downward pressure on the market.

Part of the reason I want to stay where I am, literally everyone is all "I'll give you X, demo the house, put up 4 townhouses, mad profit" since corner so have room and access for 2 road and WGAF about a garden right? Just slip road round the back. Me, when my neighbour went up for sale I knew devs were swooping, I just didn't have the funds to auction that at the time, and they're a technically bigger block, just needs levelling and has white ants, also their back fence is lol.

Gov might want things, but all the devs, real estate and such see is cash when you're floating around those things. Like just before my old man was hospitalised to eventually die we got a random "he signed an entry sheet and now it's on an intended auction form" from such a company who immediately backpeddled when we got lawyers involved to see just how scummy things are.

So also not just greed, you don't have wits about you and they'll straight do illegal shit if they can get away with it.

In other news...

What a thing to wake up to, might hop on Signal and see if we can organise a coup in an African nation and set up a Saints BF retreat resort. Just don't leak it to the press...

 

[PoppedCorn]

The tenant has been there for years, probably a decade, a single mum i think. The house is long ago paid off.

Tell me one good reason apart from greed why we should put the rent up?

I cant
And good on you mate for not putting it up and helping a single parent who is prob struggling a bit already

As someone who got their pants pulled down when we rwnted while building I certainly know what it’s like to have your rent try and be put up by 200 bucks a week when they knew we were building

They just don’t give a ****

 

[dudeintheswamp]

The organisation and planning of the Brisbane Olympics reminds me of that documentary about the Fyre Festival.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

I cant
And good on you mate for not putting it up and helping a single parent who is prob struggling a bit already

As someone who got their pants pulled down when we rwnted while building I certainly know what it’s like to have your rent try and be put up by 200 bucks a week when they knew we were building

They just don’t give a ****

We actually ended up putting it up $25/week. Estate agent wanted 200.
I guess they get a percentage.
Why should Estate Agents get a percentage for management or selliing?
They should get a fixed amount + costs.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Why should Estate Agents get a percentage for management or selliing?
They should get a fixed amount + costs.

Because that’s price fixing. Government regulations prevent that.

 

[gringo2011]

Because that’s price fixing. Government regulations prevent that.

You can't force people to increase rents surely?

 

[Dard Ball Get]

You can't force people to increase rents surely?

Who the hell said anything about that?

SS is talking fees.

 

[gringo2011]

Who the hell said anything about that?

SS is talking fees.

Sorry for not jacking-off about real estate ramblings.I was impressed that I gave it that much attention.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Sorry for not jacking-off about real estate ramblings.I was impressed that I gave it that much attention.

It’s alright, comprehension can’t be everyone’s strong point. At least you’re handsome

 

[PoppedCorn]

lol
batting off to realestate.com

 

[StFly]

lol
batting off to realestate.com

"What huge tracks of driveway, and look at that double garage...."

 

[BigPowerForward]

I can't argue with this assessment

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Am i stupid? I just put $50 on McYabbie to go top three in the Brownlow.

If he now has a serious injury its my fault.