Experiences from an Entrepreneur

Are you hiding for the RA man? It is hard to keep out of his sight. Remember all that information you gave the bank when you were trying to get the car? He has it now. He knows where you worked then, who your friends and relatives are, where they live, and whatever else you wrote down. The RA man will talk to other people, a lot of other people, to find you. After all, he will claim, he is only trying to resolve this problem before the bank starts the repossession process and you are involved in a legal mess that may end up in one of the thousands of bank repos across the nation these days.

Don’t worry, he will tell your friends, relatives and co-workers. he is trying to help you. Wouldn’t it be better to work with him than the police? He’s lying, but your friends, relatives and co-workers will believe him. After all, they like you and want to help. If they cannot help him, the RA goes to your neighbors and their neighbors. If you have moved and he can’t find you, he will knock on your old neighbors doors, asking questions. He will hound you at your work place.

If you have changed jobs, he’ll snoop around trying to see where you work now. Then, if you are still hiden, he goes into the investigative mode and checks your credit report to see if there is any information he can use to find you. He will check the telephone book. And he will surf the web looking for any information you have there. Another thing he will do is check other businesses in the area you worked and lived to see if you switched to another job in your field.  One of the many tricks we’ve read about recently in the repo cars guide list tools like  a license plate reader that recovery agents use in their trucks.  As he drives through a parking lot, the reader scans the license plates and signals a match. He may find your car at the movies, restaurant, grocery store or mall, a parking lot, anywhere you go. If you outsmart him long enough, he will move onto an easier target. He get lots of new jobs every day. Only when he tows a car does he get paid. The rest of the time, it’s on his dime and nobody likes to work for nothing.

After the first big effort to find you, the RA is likely to move on to someone easier to find and tow their car. After all, time is money and he has wasted a lot of time on you already. Why would he continue to hunt you when you are hard to find. However, if the RA learns where you work or live or stow the vehicle, he will be there day after day, until he gets it.