I recently applied for an apartment and was told that a judgement came up for an eviction. I told the complex this was not possible because I had never been evicted. I called my old apartment complex and they also showed that I had not recieved an eviction, but gave me the contact information for the company they use for collection efforts.\r
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Upon reading the reviews I was a little scared to call because although I knew that I had never had any evictions, if it was showing up on my credit report then I was not sure the Blakely-Witt office would be willing to hear me out and assist with getting this cleared up.\r
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I called and was promptly transferred to Mike. He was not available so I left him a voice message. He called me back less then 30 minutes later and asked how he could assist. I explained to him that I use to live at a certain apartment complex and was signed off the lease, at which time I moved out, but I believed my old room mate must have recieved an eviction and somehow I was getting associated with it. He listened and put me on hold while he retrieved the paperwork at which time he assured me that I was NOT on the eviction and apologized for the mistake. He also explained that some times the apartment complex may be looking at the address, and not the actual ""people"" that the judgement was against. \r
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Mike offered to fax me the paperwork so that I could provide it to my new apartment complex manager as further proof that I was not on the lease at the time that eviction was filed. He faxed it promptly and I have the paperwork I need to fight this with the courts.\r
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I am thankful that he was so helpful and had empathy for my situation. I have excellent credit and have never dealt with collections people before, but it was nice to see that the reviews I read were not correct with my experience. Thanks to Mike I should be approved for my new apartment as soon as this afternoon.\r
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I also want to add that the collections agency is not responsible for evictions filed. These are completed by the apartment complex to file. In my case they did not read all of the paperwork before filing the eviction and I will dispute this with their corporate office, not Blakely-Witt.
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