I still believe in having the person arrested for theft of services. But for those of you who try aqnd collect your hard earned money the hard way by sueing in small claims court. Here is some more things you might want to know. After you win a judgement in small claims court put a lein on their property. Then send them a certified letter giving them a reasonable ammount of time to pay the debt. The courts (most of them) deem 90 days as reasonable. After the 90 days are up you then send another certified letter to them letting them know that in the next five business days that if payment is not recieved in full you will have a sheriffs sale of what ever you have a lien against and they will be responsable for the debt and any other cost that arise from the sale.
Most of you seem to be rather young compared to me so for what it's worth here is a rule I made back when I strated my first company in 1972. Money is money and I have no friends or realitives when it comes to money. You are in business for one reason and one reason only, and that is to make money. Liking your job or work is just a by product. Some of you will probably think that this is not a very nice way to do business and you may be right but I can say in all my years of doing business I have never been broke and no one has ever gotten away with ripping me off.
The other issue I have is some saying anyone can make a mistake and boune a check. Well the cold hard truth about the matter is if in fact it is a mistake, it would be corrected the next day. To let this "mistake" carry on for more than a week , well that "mistake was done on purpose. No one accidently bounces a check for more than one business day. If you think they do you are only kidding yourself. So why not out him/her? Because of friendship? What about your other friends here that have not ripped you off. Don't you owe some typ of loyalty to them so this person doesn't rip them off? Here is another hard cold fact of life, if some one will rip another person of then they will not stop at just thet person they will rip off others. If a person steals from you this person will just as easily steal from your friends. Maybe my way of doing business has gone by the way side but back in the day business owners looked out after one another. If a customer was bouncing checks at a bar that bar owner would let the other bars know who it was bouncing checks, I don't know, maybe
sign people just don't get it......If a virus was going around infecting
sign computers wouldn't you warn the other
sign companies? So why not warn them about a bouncing check dead beats? like a virus they also cost you money.........
