Companies that offer student loans, some of which are federally backed and some which are not, may run into issues where these loans are not actively repaid. Many borrowers had the full intention of paying them when they took the loans out, but they may have stopped...
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Limited liability: 3 key factors in piercing the corporate veil
Business entities provide entrepreneurs and investors with a crucial shield, separating their personal assets from the liabilities of the business entity they establish. This safeguard allows individuals to take risks and pursue entrepreneurial endeavors with a sense...
Should you negotiate overdue payments with customers?
Customers who don’t pay their bills in full or who pay late or not at all are the bane of every small business’s existence. So how do you decide when to try to negotiate with a customer and when to start the collection process? First, it’s important to determine...
Should all unpaid debt lead to repossession?
If you’re a business owner who has non-paying clients, you know how common this can be and how frustrating it is. You need the payment for the products or services that were already rendered, and it’s holding your business back to be without this money. It’s revenue...
Developing debt collection techniques as a new business owner
If you’re starting a new business, you want to believe that all of your customers will pay their bills on time and in full. Unfortunately, that won’t always be the case. That’s why it’s necessary to set up policies and processes to get the money you’re owed so that...
When are payment plans right for past-due customers?
If you have the kind of business that doesn’t require full payment from your customer within a 30-day period from delivery of goods or services, you may find that offering a range of payment plans can help you bring in more customers. Even if you can’t do this for...
How long do you wait before you refer a debtor to collections?
It can take a lot of work to keep some of your commercial clients on track with their payments, and some of them are harder than others to push toward compliance. But, how much of a grace period do you give? How much is “too much” when it comes to working with someone...
Thousands of invoices go unpaid
To find out how common it is for businesses to send out invoices and then never be paid the money that they're due, one study looked at just over 1,000 small businesses. The numbers that they found were perhaps not surprising, but they did shed light on how serious...
Student loan defaults happen faster than you may think
Some people who default on their student loans do try to pay them off for years or even decades before they realize they can't make that payment. It's just such a long-term process that they may have had high hopes of paying at the beginning, before seeing that dream...
The first thing to do about unpaid invoices
It can be very frustrating to have unpaid invoices. As a business owner, you've already rendered services and you expect to get paid. Maybe you sold products and the invoice is for that cost. Either way, you feel that you're being ripped off because someone is not...