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Recovering Personal Property Collateral: When Should Secured Creditors Consider Replevin Instead of Self-Help Repossession?

Jimerson Firm

Many secured creditors and equipment leasing companies have encountered defaulted debts, where the debtors and lessees retain possession of the collateral, including cars, boats, machinery, or other equipment. When Should Creditors use Replevin to Recover Collateral? Dania Bank , 321 So. 2d 83 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983).

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SBA Loans: How to Maximize Recovery by Liquidating Real Property

Jimerson Firm

When a small business association (“SBA”) loan is converted to liquidation status, the lender must begin liquidating the collateral. If the collateral is real property, the lender must liquidate all parcels of real property that has a Recoverable Value over $10,000. See SOP 50 57.

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How Lenders Can Avoid Losing Their Collateral by Paying Off the Borrower’s Property Tax Obligations

Jimerson Firm

How Do Property Taxes Result in Loss of Collateral? If the borrower is delinquent in paying its property taxes, a tax certificate may be sold for the past-due taxes, which could lead to a tax deed sale of the collateral. How to Get a Deficiency Judgment After a Foreclosure Sale.

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Best Practices to Enforce a Judgment 

FFGN COLLECT NY

A client of ours in the waterproofing business asked for our best practices when enforcing a judgment. Best practices would generally infer that judgment enforcement differs based on the creditor’s industry, but that’s not the case. The remaining two cases were a reduced judgment from 2018 in the amount of $3,750.00

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Using Your Debtor’s Assets to Secure Judgment Collections

Collections Law

Winning your case in court is often the easy part of the legal debt collection process; it’s collecting your payment post-judgment where things get challenging and require a bit of strategy. One is through post-judgment discovery, where we work to follow your debtor’s money trail to find any assets that they may be attempting to hide.

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Using Aggressive Methods to Domesticate Foreign Judgments and Enforce Mechanics Liens

Collections Law

We Domesticate Foreign Judgments in Massachusetts. Therefore, to implement and enforce it, the creditor must get the judgment domesticated. Cohen LLC, we domesticate your foreign judgment in Massachusetts and simultaneously work to secure payment of that judgment. A mechanics lien serves like collateral.

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Foreclosing on Property With a Mobile Home

Jimerson Firm

If the lender receives a foreclosure judgment from the court, the real property, including the mobile home, will be sold at public auction. 1) The Mobile Home Existed at the Time of the Mortgage and Is Identified as Collateral in the Mortgage Documents.