The major financial growth area
With the financial world seemingly falling to bits around the world one of the clear growth areas is that of debt collection agencies obviously.
Ordinarily, these have had fairly pedestrian growth but, of course, with the massive increase in people experiencing financial difficulties many financial outfits have outsourced their collection process to specialist debt collection agencies. They’re not necessarily “the bad guy” but it’s best to be aware of your rights ahead of their arrival (these vary considerably around the world) so that you know what they’re allowed to do and what isn’t on.
Typically for instance you’ll find that they’re not allowed to take the “tools of your trade” on the basis that they should leave you with some means of getting an income to repay the debt. The question, of course, is: what are the “tools of your trade”?
The problem of definition is endemic in this industry. Obviously, if they’re coming to take enough belongings off you to sell and thereby repay the debt, then clearly they will want to take the more saleable items yet in a lot of cases that will include computer equipment which a lot of us use to make our living.
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