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There’s help to landlords seeking collections on their past due or delinquent rent payments in Georgia. Reviewing some of the steps their debt collection firm takes to prepare and collect on bad debts, is the video topic in review today.

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We’ve been in business since 1985 and we’ve handled thousands of cases representing landlords seeking collections on their past due or delinquent rent payments. We are commonly working with them. There are a lot of things that go into the collection process for past due rent payments.

We want to obtain a copy of the lease documents. There are a lot of things in the lease that can help you and serve as a tool for collecting your debt. We’ll take a look at the lease and see what’s in there.

Georgia has provisions that will allow you to add cost of collection and attorney fees if you are required to use an attorney to collect the debt.

We also help new clients make improvements to their existing lease agreements from a debt collection standpoint. Many times you get your rental lease agreements written by an attorney however they might not be a debt collection attorney and not incorporate elements that make the debt collection processes much smoother, faster and reliable. We can add those things into the agreements that will help you collect your debts faster if the renter fails to pay their agreed upon fee.

Georgia has a very strong pierce the corporate veil statute and allows you to pierce the corporate veil and go after the shareholders or officers individually.

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When a corporation incurs a debt there is no personal liability. In other words, that’s the idea of the corporate shield. It says that if you’re a corporation and you incur debts then the officers or shareholders are not personally liable for the debt.

When Can We Proceed with A Pierce the Corporate Veil Action?

Our office, whenever we have a business debt collection matter, we never really stop at the point where a debtor says we are insolvent or we’re defunct. We always dive into it, we bring them in for depositions, we force them to reveal whatever assets they have. At that time we determine whether or not we can proceed with an action to pierce the corporate veil.

Piercing the Corporate Veil in Georgia

Georgia has a very strong pierce the corporate veil statute and allows you to pierce the corporate veil and go after the shareholders or officers individually. It allows us to go after their individual assets. If they did not fund the corporation properly or they commingled funds we can go after the officers and shareholders individually.

Insolvency & commingling are two of the most common reasons and weapons to be able to pierce the corporate veil and hold a shareholder liable.

Howe and Associates was founded by Karl Howe in 1985 and has since become the authority regarding debt collection cases in metro Atlanta. Karl has spent his professional career as an experienced trial attorney representing thousands of plaintiffs throughout the entire state of Georgia. Richard Howe, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, has been the lead attorney representing plaintiffs in over 7000 litigation cases.

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Karl and Richard Howe are happy to be located in Georgia, serving the greater metro Atlanta area.

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