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Debt Settlement Success Often Depends On This One Priority

September 28, 2022 by Michael Bovee Leave a Comment

How to prioritize debts.

I often say that there are only 2 main ingredients to debt settlement success. Those are resources and timing. Resources means money you have to pay a settlement. Timing means your account is past due enough to get a good deal. But it is how these two ingredients combine that allows you to prioritize each […]

Filed Under: debt collection, debt settlement, Uncategorized

Comenity Credit Cards Can Be Settled For Less

March 3, 2022 by Michael Bovee 2 Comments

Comenity Bank is mostly known for servicing credit cards for stores and other outlets, not for their own branded cards, or retail bank locations. As you will see from the list below, they are the bank behind more than 100 other companies. Your options for dealing with credit cards serviced by Comenity will often mirror […]

Filed Under: bankruptcy, credit counseling service, debt collection, debt settlement

How To Deal With Resurgent Capital and LVNV Funding

September 7, 2021 by Michael Bovee 4 Comments

Both Resurgent Capital Services and LVNV Funding are part of the Sherman Financial Group based in South Carolina. I have been helping people resolve debt with this debt buyer and collection agency for many years. If you are dealing with this company, as far as debt buyers go, it could be worse! LVNV Funding and […]

Filed Under: credit reports, debt collection, debt settlement

What to Know About CKS Financial Before Dealing with Them

March 19, 2022 by Michael Bovee Leave a Comment

CKS Financial is both a debt collection agency, and a debt buyer. They will purchase debts and try to collect on them like other debt buyers do. They also act as a contingency collection agency for lenders and other debt buyers. What you decide to do, and when, if you are dealing with them, can […]

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What to do if Your GreenSky Loan Becomes a Problem

March 19, 2022 by Michael Bovee 6 Comments

GreensSky loans are primarily unsecured, and made for home improvements. The loan amounts can reach above fifty thousand dollars. How much your monthly payment is will depend on the amount of your loan, and the interest rate applied. The larger the loan, the harder it can be to keep current with the payments. When financial […]

Filed Under: credit reports, debt collection, debt settlement

Coping with Freedom Plus Loans When You Cannot Keep Up Payments

September 7, 2021 by Michael Bovee 17 Comments

Freedom Plus loans can range from about ten to forty thousand dollars. The interest rates can vary depending on your qualifications when you get approved for the loan. This can make for hefty monthly payments, and can also mean some of us are one unexpected expense away from not being able to make our Freedom […]

Filed Under: bankruptcy, credit reports, debt collection, debt settlement Tagged With: Consolidation loan, Freedom Plus

Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC and Solving Your Debt

September 30, 2021 by Michael Bovee 2 Comments

Portfolio Recovery Associates LLC is one of the largest debt buyers in the country, and one of few publicly traded in the United States. Like many of the largest debt buyers in the US, PRA buys up unpaid collection accounts, mostly tied to credit cards, from Citibank, Synchrony, Comenity, US Bank, and more. Portfolio Recovery […]

Filed Under: debt collection, debt settlement Tagged With: credit report, debt buyer, debt collection, lawsuit, PRA, settle debt

Settling debt with Radius Global Solutions

September 8, 2021 by Michael Bovee 15 Comments

A site reader recently wrote in to ask about dealing with a large debt collection agency by the name of Radius Global Solutions, who they are, and whether to settle a debt with them. The submitted questions are great, and as is the case with much of the site, I publish the exchange so others […]

Filed Under: debt collection, debt settlement Tagged With: collection agency, Radius Global Solutions

Resolving Debt with Velocity Investment LLC

March 19, 2022 by Michael Bovee 22 Comments

Velocity

If you are hearing from Velocity Investment LLC it is likely because they have purchased an unpaid account from one of your creditors. Like with many debt buyers, Velocity bids on accounts that have gone unpaid more than 4 months in the case of fixed loans, and more than 6 months late in the case […]

Filed Under: debt collection Tagged With: debt buyer, payments, settle debt, Velocity Investment

Debt Collection: Something Different This Way Comes

September 7, 2021 by Michael Bovee 10 Comments

New fair collection practices for collectors.

By some estimates, more than a third of the adult population in the US is going to come in contact with a debt collector at some point. If you have never had to deal with debt collector before, your only exposure to the industry could be from the media, and perhaps by way of this […]

Filed Under: banking practices, debt collection

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