[bratticus]

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JOHN PRESCOTT could face a £3,000 tax bill after it emerged that he was allowed to stay rent-free in his official flat.

[Ludi]

No. Recent clients have paid promptly.

But we aren't getting any new clients at the moment.

[ColossalContrarian]

One Realtor I *did* consulting for has failed to pay me for $300 worth of work. He owes much more to other companies from what I hear by word of mouth. Not sure if it will be worth going after him for $300, I’ll still keep mailing out payment notices anyway. My bad for doing work for this realtor bozo in the first place...

[perdition79]

My company has not paid its guaranteed minimum pay to over 100 drivers for the past four months. The company has been really slow, and the drivers have calculated the amount due to be over $280,000. Most think that the ship is going down.

[MarkJ]

This month I'm evicting two tenants and repossessed about a dozen propane tanks for failure to pay in full.

Overall, slow-pays, no-pays, bad checks, repossessions, evictions and liens are down since I run a much tighter ship.


I was owed much more money back in the 90s since I offered more private financing, I'd often let people slide for a while, didn't do as much government/state/private funded work, prepaid work, COD work, cash work and worked with lower down-payments and fewer payment schedules.

[IslandCrow]

I work for a private social service provider, from whom local communities (local government) buy care. We are only at the beginning of the troubles, but so far two communities (out of about 10) have refused to accept a rise in prices based on the government published cost of living index. At least, so far, this is better than the last recession where one community just cut all their payments by 10%!

From our experience in the last recession here in Finland, what will happen is that communities will stop providing the care that they are legally bound to provide, until things get absolutely desperate, and then it is often too late to much good in the individual situation. The other problem is that although we are often cheaper that local-government run care providers, in a economic crisis, the local authorities will place people in their own institutions to prevent them having to make more of their workers redundant.