thechargerswokeup Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Thank you in advance to anyone that can help!Back in 1999 my girlfriend had an apartment that I would quite often spend time at (like we all did when we were young.) The landlord there became quite upset with her (and me) because we became very vocal about the living conditions of these apartments and the lack of repairs being made for seriously unstable conditions. We even had one of the major news channels do a pieces on the conditions. Pretty big stuff for a city as big as San Diego.We with the new being able to pull credit online at annualcreditreport.com I notices I had a 1600.00 collection acct on my credit. I found out it was from this place. Apparently someone signed the lease after my girlfriend was there, and put my name on it. I am able to easily prove it is not my signature as my name is spelled Karl not Carl.My question is what course a recourse do I have against this company? I have all ready challenged it and have talked to the collection agaency to get copied of everything, but is there anything I can do to the offending company? How do I get started?Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocPC Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 I'd be having someone arrested for forgery to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thechargerswokeup Posted December 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Yeah, I can not prove who did it though, even though I know who did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocPC Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 Sure you can. If you make a Police report, they will go to the suspect and and get a samplar of their handwriting for analysis. I used to be a reserve Deputy Sheriff back in the day. We did stuff like this all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thechargerswokeup Posted December 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 I dont think she even is alive. She was the grandmother of my ex girlfriend. Even if she is alive she lives in Utah so it would be rather hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted December 15, 2004 Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 I would just do a standard debt validation against the collection agency. (Click on the link above.) Be prepared to go all the way to court with this and you can earn some nice cash plus get it off. Typically, though, the collection will go away after you starting sending intent to sue letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thechargerswokeup Posted December 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 Well the CA agreed to remove it from my CBR, but they said there was a judgement on it...soooooooooo I am ghoing to have to go fight that, guess I will have to go to small claims court. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workinninetofive Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 I'd be having someone arrested for forgery to start.Yeah, he's right.. I would also do as the admin suggested. But, hey don't let people get off forging your signature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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