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Payment morale is often lacking. While there are reliable tenants, customers, borrowers, and business partners who meet their payment obligations on time, there are also those who are unable or, more often, unwilling to pay. Creditors often have to make significant efforts to recover their money. This creates a lucrative job opportunity for you: Become a private debt collector!

The online portal SecretJobs.eu is used by companies, agencies, freelancers, and private individuals to find providers of special services or to draw attention to their own service portfolios and attract customers. If you are already working as a private debt collector, you can offer your services to searching creditors across Europe on the job portal or use a free ad to highlight your services to interested clients.

Private Debt Collectors – The Business is Booming

The demand for reliable debt collectors is growing as society becomes more coarse, affecting payment morale. Scandals follow one another, and while the “little man” is harshly punished, the “big players” often get away unscathed. Some wealthy individuals feel emboldened not to take their payment obligations seriously. They rent luxury properties, buy incredibly expensive cars, commission exclusive services, take out loans, or borrow money from business partners but ultimately fail to pay overdue bills or refuse to repay borrowed money.

To prevent creditors from suffering financial losses, they have various options to collect legitimate debts. Official channels through courts and bailiffs are often unfruitful.

Creditors who pursue overdue debts through legal channels face costly, nerve-wracking, and lengthy procedures. It is questionable whether the creditor will ever receive their money. In the worst case, they not only face financial loss but also additional costs if involving lawyers, courts, and bailiffs for enforcement actions leads to dead ends—because the debtor is either unable or unwilling to pay.

Some debtors speculate that they just need to hold out long enough to avoid repaying their debts. Until the creditor resigns and realizes that the costs for lawyers and bailiffs can become a bottomless pit and that even the authorities are powerless when the debtor declares bankruptcy, provides a financial disclosure, and all enforcement actions fail.

Under certain circumstances, it may be better for creditors to rely on experienced service providers who make it clear to the debtor without paperwork and bureaucratic hurdles that outstanding debts must be paid.

Who Uses Your Services as a Private Debt Collector?

Primarily, private individuals and companies are potential clients who have already taken various measures over a long period to collect outstanding debts through regular means or who know that the debtor is officially considered insolvent. Typically, these involve larger sums of money and unwilling debtors.

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Whether the debtor cannot or will not pay?

From the creditor’s perspective, this initially makes no difference. Those who owe money must pay their debts. However, the sobering fact is that those without money cannot settle debts at the current time. When liquidity issues are present, adding costs to lower the debtor’s payment morale further is counterproductive. Offering an installment plan is often more efficient.

The difference between unwilling and unable to pay is that the insolvent cannot make payments on time or in full due to lack of funds. The unwilling debtor, on the other hand, has financial means and material wealth, often hidden from authorities and collectors. They could pay but choose not to, often hiding assets through relatives or straw men or placing money abroad.

Clients who use your services as a private debt collector often deal with unscrupulous freeloaders. They live luxuriously, flaunt their supposed wealth, take dream vacations, and drive luxury cars—at others’ expense, rather than paying their debts.

Collaborating with Detectives as a Private Debt Collector

Ideally, creditors have information on the debtor’s income and assets. This knowledge provides a good basis for your job to confront the unwilling debtor and apply moderate pressure.

If there is suspicion that assets are deliberately hidden or undeclared to avoid paying debts, but you and your client lack solid evidence, it is advisable to work with a detective.

The goal of the investigation is to gather evidence showing that the unwilling person has income and assets above the garnishment threshold. Further investigations can also be aimed at getting a comprehensive picture of the debtor’s habits and lifestyle.

Focus areas for investigative activities may include:

• Does the debtor drive an expensive car?
• Are there other assets?
• Does the person have a well-paid job?
• Who is the employer, or who are the clients and business partners?
• Does the debtor own foreign properties?
• Does the person possess valuable artworks or collectibles?
• Does the person lead a luxurious lifestyle?
• In which social circles does the debtor move?
• What social events does the person attend?

Based on these findings, you can plan specifically how, where, and with what methods you will contact the debtor on behalf of the creditor to demand payment of the debts.

How to Proceed as a Private Debt Collector

Never exceed legal boundaries in your job. Every assignment should be executed within legal limits—completely legally. Your approach to the delinquent should be friendly but firm.

Debtors Pay Out of Shame and Fear of Image Loss

In many cases, it is sufficient to make the debtor aware of the seriousness of the situation in a personal conversation and convey that their financial circumstances are known.

Often, unwilling debtors comply when they realize that:

• Family members
• Neighbors
• Friends
• Employees
• Hosts
• Colleagues
• Corporate clients
• Business partners

are aware of their poor payment morale. People who don’t pay their debts but instead lavishly spend money that isn’t theirs lose reputation and trust—both in personal and business life.

Installment Payment – Often a Good Compromise for the Creditor

If the debtor shows willingness to pay due to your role as a private debt collector, you can either demand a full payment to the creditor’s bank account, request cash payment, or arrange a binding installment plan.

By indicating that you will collect the installment personally if there is a further delay in payment, you increase the pressure. After all, no debtor wants a debt collector regularly showing up at their door to demand the payment of the debt.

How to Become a Private Debt Collector

No specific education is required to earn money as a debt collector. However, your appearance and demeanor are important. Few debtors will happily greet you at their door or enjoy a conversation with you. A serious and determined demeanor, along with diplomatic yet assertive rhetoric, usually ensures that the unwilling debtor engages in a conversation and is open to reasonable arguments. Experience in security, a robust physique, expressive facial expressions, and a strong voice are advantageous.

Take the opportunity to offer your services as a private debt collector to potential clients through your service ad on SecretJobs.eu, or respond to ads from creditors seeking your assistance to recover their owed money.

Opinions and Experiences of Debt Collectors and Collection Agents:

• Thomas (Experienced Debt Collector): “As a private debt collector, I have the opportunity to help creditors enforce their rightful claims. It is satisfying to see how I achieve positive results through legal and creative methods, helping creditors avoid financial loss. Each successful case strengthens my commitment to my work and shows that fairness in business is possible.”
• Maria (Professional Collection Specialist): “In my role as a debt collector, I especially appreciate the challenge of finding fair and efficient solutions for complex cases. It is important that both sides reach a satisfactory solution, and often an installment plan is the key. My goal is always to create a situation where the creditor gets their money, and the debtor maintains their dignity.”
• Jens (Private Debt Collector with Security Background): “My work as a debt collector allows me to use my skills in security while acting legally. The feeling of helping creditors often ignored by large companies or wealthy individuals gives me deep professional satisfaction. I see myself as a mediator ensuring justice.”
• Anna (Debt Collector and Negotiation Specialist): “As a woman in this field, I often find that my diplomatic skills are effective in mediating. It is rewarding when my work leads to debtors taking their financial obligations seriously and creditors getting their hard-earned money back. It’s a demanding job, but the results are worth it.”
• Simon (Freelance Debt Collector): “My job as a debt collector requires creativity and persistence, making it very interesting. Each case is different, and using various strategies to achieve my goal is always a challenge. I particularly enjoy when debtors realize it is better to pay than risk their reputation. The job is not only financially lucrative but also offers the satisfaction of effectively solving problems.”