Posted June 19, 20149:02 am
From The Plain Dealer and reporter Sheryl Harris: click here for full story online --
Our live chat on debt collection starts right here at noon.
Have a question about debt collection, zombie debts or settling a debt? Ask our panel of experts:
- PDAlt – Phil Althouse, an attorney with Cleveland Legal Aid.
- JMC Bill Mann – Bill Mann, who's weighing in for the Ohio Receivables Management Association, a debt collection trade group.
- ConsumerCourage – Mark Wiseman, an attorney who runs the Neighborhood Housing Services Consumer Law Center.
- FederalTradeCommission - Larissa Bungo, Assistant Regional Director at the FTC's East Central Region, which is in Cleveland.
- legalaidkatherine – Katherine Hollingsworth, an attorney with Cleveland Legal Aid.
- Join us from noon to 1 p.m. in the comments section of this post. Want to know how to dispute a debt? Not sure if you can be tagged for your ex's debts? This is your chance to get expert answers within minutes.
There are several ways you can participate:
- Read along as questions and answers are posted in the comments section of this post at noon.
- Ask a question of your own by logging into your cleveland.com user account. If you don't have one, you'll get a prompt telling you how to create one when you post your question in the comment box. Debt can be a sensitive topic -- so if you'd like to create a special user account just for this chat, feel free.
- Tweet questions to @consumerwriter using the hashtag #debtchatCLE
Just remember: We wrap up at 1 p.m., so don't waffle. Jump in!