Should I settle my RISE loan with NCB Management?

If you cannot afford the lump sum settlement offer from NCB right now, how long will it take you to raise the money? If you can pull the money together in the next several weeks, I would suggest calling in to make a counter offer on the phone.

Negotiating with NCB Management Services

Be prepared to answer a short set of income and expense questions. Debt collectors, and debt buyers like NCB Management Services, will be looking to:

1. Get answers to questions that suggest to them that they can hold out for more money (in your case stick to the original mailed offer).
2. Learn if you qualify for a better settlement deal based on internal parameters and policies unique to each collection agency.

If you share with NCB that you are on a fixed income, and your situation is such that you will probably always be limited to that, you can sometimes negotiate a better outcome because they have a policy of making room for that.

If you slip up and share information with the collector that suggests your finances have improved since stopping payments to RISE Credit, your efforts with negotiating a lower payoff can hit a wall.

Being Sued or Arbitration Filed on Your RISE Credit Loan

Our courts are clogged up with all manner of lawsuits. Far too many of the cases filed in courts daily are from debt buyers like NCB. And while NCB may not sue as much as other debt buyers, there is always the risk you can be sued for collection (if your debt has not passed the SOL that limits how long collectors can access the courts in your state).

If you want to eliminate that risk, you should look to negotiate an affordable lump sum settlement with NCB (I am with you on avoiding monthly payments).

If you simply cannot come up with the money needed to fund a lump sum settlement offer, or need more time to save up, but are sued in the interim, you can also negotiate the debt with the attorney NCB hires. The deal may not be as good as it is now, or that you can call and negotiate before being sued, but you can still resolve the debt without a judgment.

I would not anticipate NCB filing for arbitration, if that was allowed for in your original loan contract with Rise Credit. I doubt RISE would file for arbitration if they still owned your account. Most arbitration clauses these days are there to prevent class action lawsuits, and are not there as a useful collection mechanism.

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