[CLC-Discussion] Texas Collection Agencies

Thu Jul 28 04:44:08 PDT 2016

Arnie, while I agree with your assessment about the Grade A clients not falling for the collection agency pitch, those are usually not the clients involved.  I’ve had several of these where my Grade A client had a sub who had been duped by the debt collector and asked me to help them out.   While I don’t advertise or solicit new clients actively, when one of Grade A clients asks me to help out a valued sub, I make exception and get involved.  My experience with the collection agencies has been the same as the others—when they receive my letter or call, they disappear.

Chuck

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From: clc-discussion-bounces at lists.flabarrpptl.org [mailto:clc-discussion-bounces at lists.flabarrpptl.org] On Behalf Of Arnold Tritt
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 9:05 AM
To: Alex Barthet; Willis, David; clc-discussion at lists.flabarrpptl.org
Subject: Re: [CLC-Discussion] Texas Collection Agencies

MUCH TO DO ABOUT NOTHING.  Grade A business / construction clients don’t forsake their relationship with their legal counsel and engage an out-of-state collection agency to collect on a Claim of Lien based on a phone solicitation any more than Grade A business / construction clients engage an attorney in response to a radio spot.  The Texas boys have been at it for years and your Grade A clients will always call you when they are contacted by such folks. If your client was ever to be duped by such tactics it was not Grade A and should be dropped and referred to your competition.  Just my thoughts.  Arnie. 

From: clc-discussion-bounces at lists.flabarrpptl.org [mailto:clc-discussion-bounces at lists.flabarrpptl.org] On Behalf Of Alex Barthet
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 8:43 AM
To: Willis, David <dwillis at rumberger.com>; clc-discussion at lists.flabarrpptl.org
Subject: Re: [CLC-Discussion] Texas Collection Agencies

David - I have tried to call on numerous occasions after they call my clients and they never call me back.  Once they know a lawyer is involved, they seem to duck back into the shadows. 

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Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 8:36 AM
To: Alex Barthet <Alex at barthet.com>; clc-discussion at lists.flabarrpptl.org
Subject: RE: Texas Collection Agencies

I have heard similar stories.  Milton Myers went away when I returned the call.

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From: clc-discussion-bounces at lists.flabarrpptl.org [mailto:clc-discussion-bounces at lists.flabarrpptl.org] On Behalf Of Alex Barthet
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 7:32 AM
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Subject: [CLC-Discussion] Texas Collection Agencies

Good morning all.  I am writing about an issue that I am seeing with increasing frequency.  The purpose of this email is to (i) alert the community of this practice, (ii) learn if others are hearing the same thing from their clients and (iii) see if folks smarter than me have any ideas how to deal with, or ideally, stop them.

Many of our clients that record liens are receiving unsolicited calls from collection agencies out of Texas, the two most common we are seeing are Tucker Albin and Assoc. (http://tuckeralbin.net/) and Milton Myers and Assoc. (http://www.mmatx.net/).  Obviously, they are getting the clients’ information by pulling the liens from the public records.

The problem is that they are making blatantly false statements such as they are working with others on the project and can guaranty payment if the client signs up, or they are representing several other lienors on the same project that are about the get paid and if the client signs up, he can get them paid now.  The reason I know these statements are false is because in the last two occasions that my clients received these calls, they were the only lienors on the projects and on both, I was already in contact with counsel for both the contractor and owner negotiating settlements.

I look forward to hearing from the group.

Regards,

Alex Barthet

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