If your debt is referred to a Collection Agency, the first thing to do is not fear the agency you are dealing with. and secondly have the facts why you want to do something about the debt in your clear mind or summarised on paper or even on any electronic device that will be cleared by yourself at a later date. When receiving bills, remember we live in a society that represents there people are creating fraudulent accounts. This is due to many things: paperless contracts - thus assuming person obtaining services or goods is legitimate, improper customer service, - neglect of customer service as staff are more worried of Key Performance Indictors (KPI's), loss of your ID or picking up your ID from computor networks. Scammers on phones are getting paid for you to pay your hard working money to them. So, once the bill is received and you note that you never opened this account or even used it, then you have a right to dispute your account as possible fraud. First you contact th
One of the things that put us off thinking of or even discussing if we have debts is, the worry of actually having them, which may be frustrating. So, how do we overcome this and make us be the person that does something about it? Simply, we have to make sure that we look at the future - I mean the positive future. We all have one - even though we think we won't have one. There is always a positive in repaying debts as well. Let's us think that in 2 years time we are completely debt free and have a savings base of $5,000 after paying of debts. How will that make you feel compared to now? After seeing this picture in your mind, we now need to look at the present and see what we have to do to change our lifestyle. Review what we spend in a way that we will still be able to still enjoy life. Review our costs and/or expenses, see how we can turn a negative into a positive. Are we spending too much on something that is actually not needed within our lifestyle? There coul