In any business it is imperative that proper Accounts Receivable ledgers be maintained, and this is especially important for community associations.   It should be a simple task as every month, quarter, or year an amount is due and when its paid the ledger goes down to zero.  Not too much math involved here, and when a unit owner is paying on time it’s quite simple.  Yet, what happens when a unit goes delinquent, or when payments come in on an irregular basis and the ledger is not kept properly?  That I can answer in one word, and that would be “trouble.”

Dear Collections Guy:

After four years a bank has foreclosed on a unit in our association that has not paid maintenance fees all that time.  We thought that when the bank took title the situation would improve, but now we see that the bank is not paying the dues, what can be done?

Signed,

Frustrated in Florida

Highly Unusual Win for a Collection Agency by Association Financial Services, L.C.

Palm Beach, FL (PRWEB) January 09, 2014

SNAP Collections has won the annual Readers Choice Awards for financial services sponsored by the Florida Community Association Journal and Florida Community Association Professionals. “This comes as a complete surprise to us, but is not undeserved,” said Mitch Drimmer, VP of Business Development at SNAP Collections by Association Financial Services.

By Mitch Drimmer, VP Association Financial Services

Community associations are faced with having to deal with collecting delinquent assessments in good times and bad. If a community association were to advertise for a collections company this is how it may appear.

HELP WANTED FOR COLLECTIONS

The board of directors of our community association is looking for a collections solution that will not only help us recover our delinquent assessments, but will not cost us five dollars to collect one dollar. We have been working with our community association attorneys, and although they know the community association business well, they are not effective with their collections efforts. We need more than an attorney placing a lien and then maybe foreclosing on said lien. We need action and we need it now because our collections are costing us an arm and a leg, and we are not seeing any return on our investment with our current solution.