Mynyel Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 How do you make sure you collect the money? MY dh and I are having a debate. :) He thinks law enforcement will get it for us by taking his property or some such thing. I say they won't. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocolateReignRemix Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Generally they will not. You would likely have to go the route of having liens placed against property or levy wages/income. Often there are a few more options if the judgement is against a business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyandbob Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Generally they will not. You would likely have to go the route of having liens placed against property or levy wages/income. Often there are a few more options if the judgement is against a business. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Ages ago I had problems collecting against a landlady who'd kept my deposit. I was able to bring her back to court where the judge browbeat her for a while, and she paid up. The court wouldn't have been able force her to fork over the money, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 You have to put a lien on their property and then send law enforcement to collect the property for auction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamaraby Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 The others are correct - you place a lien on their property. It's also how BOA was foreclosed on by those home owner's down in Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erin Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 Not sure how it's done elsewhere, but in Nebraska when we got a small claims judgement for about $1000 a few years ago, we had to haul the guy BACK to court to get him to pay. The judge watched him write us a check. We then turned the check over to the sheriff's dept, as a two-party check. Not sure if that's S.O.P everywhere, but our sheriff's dept was really hoping this guy would cancel the check, let it bounce, something... He wasn't very popular. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynyel Posted August 14, 2013 Author Share Posted August 14, 2013 Thank you!! ROFL, I won this debate with dh! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samiam Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 You have to pursue it. I know when I once one a judgment against a lady who I was babysitting for, and she never paid me (after about two months and she was getting state funds to help pay for it...which is why I waited so long because she kept saying she was waiting for the funds to come through...this was years ago, I was 19).....I had to go through the court system to have her wages garnished. I know another friend who won in small claims court...and she had to go to further lengths to actually get the $$$ (not sure what she had to do). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 When we were landlords, once we had a judgement from small claims court our next stop was our local collection agency. So say we had a judgement of $1000. We took it to them, and they tacked on their fee and collected both the amount of the judgement AND the fee from the person. It worked beautifully most of the time, but it takes time...often we were like tenth in line and had to wait until the other ten had garnished wages and our turn came up. Then they garnished wages and we got a check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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