Republic Services sees 13% income increase as lawsuits target homes behind on payments
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- Опубліковано 20 бер 2023
- The hardball collection tactics used by Republic Services - the exclusive trash collector in Clark County - may be paying off. Republic’s most recent quarterly statement, released in February, shows a huge increase in collections income year-over-year from 2021 to 2022. That figure rose almost 13% - up from $2.138 billion to $2.41 billion. FULL STORY: www.8newsnow.com/investigator...
This is what happens when you have a monopoly. You can do whatever you like, gauge the customer whatever you want. In my opinion, Republic Services needs to fall under the Utility’s Commission. They need to be regulated.
Side note: The reason why they can’t prove to the lady she owes $10k is because the Accounts Receivables Dept is a joke. I recently went online to pay my bill. Website said I owed XX amount, but 2 weeks earlier, I received an email saying I owed XX. Turns out the email was what I actually owed. WTF?? If I had paid what the website said I owed, I, too, would’ve gone to collections.
Came across this because I have a HUD home next door sitting vacant for 5 years, one of those years is when the elderly owner was in a nursing facility. Nobody from HUD upkeeps the property. Cops won't respond even though the NRS is listed everywhere, HUD won't board it up, county ordinance won't respond. It became a haven for squatters and uptick in crime. So when looking into what was going on with it, found out that Republic Services has a lawsuit for unpaid payment against the now deceased former owner from 2019, then new owner HUD and this is why it has been vacant for so long. No trash was being collected but because nobody cancelled it, the fees just kept stacking. If you look up the amount of HUD owned homes that Republic Services has lawsuits against, it's kind of staggering. Since it's a gov agency, the amount of red tape keeps this process going for an eternity due to buying the property off of old people so they can stay in place, who die and don't cancel their trash service, but it's the law to keep collecting trash. Or they just wait for the judgement to fall off after 6 years. Not only is it a monopoly, but odds are stacked up for RS to screw you, they hope you don't cancel it and pass away because someone will be paying. Republic Services is legally using the loophole that it can extort additional lawyers fees and charges and in some of these cases, they can't even prove that they picked up trash so how can they sue someone for something they can't prove but will take you to court to make them prove that they can't prove it?
What all these news articles and videos keep talking about is the people that are going through this but nobody is talking about is how this should not even be an option to put liens on homes because of unpaid trash service. If I want to sue someone for under $10k I have to go to small claims court, which is exactly the extent of what Republic Services should be allowed to do or only able to send to a collection agency like a utility or a write off as a loss. It is clogging up the already taxed court system, causing homes to sit vacant and deteriorate that need to be put into inventory instead of rotting, causes neighborhoods to deal with squatters and crime and makes people (often elderly) who aren't paying attention to their bills and thinks the trash pickup is running as normal, possibly homeless. Where do you even start or how do you even get someone in the legislative process to assist with getting this law/ordinance changed or even give a $h!t enough to attempt it? How is this benefiting the public by having this law, how is an unpaid trash bill worth the equivalent of taking someone's home? It's not. In most states if you don't pay your trash bill, they don't pick up your trash. What was the issue in the first place that made this a law that a lien was possible?
When the mob operated industry wants its money using legal tactics. 😮
Yup
They just went up 16% on my bill after going up 20% just a few months ago. Time for regulation!
Corrupt Company. Hated them since I moved to Las Vegas.
This is the same company who drives their roll-off trucks with no cover so that trash flies out all over the highway a street. I took a video of multiple occasions where this has happened. Sent it to Republic……no response to this date on any of the videos.
Let them lien on the wrong house 😂
And some 'why does everyone want everything free?' You do get to keep what's left after the foreclosure
I'll pay pick my shit up
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m no fan of a monopoly company like Republic either but how do you not know you have to pay for garbage pickup? Then, how does it get to over 10K? Simple. Just throw the bill away every time it comes in the mail. Quarter by quarter, year after year.
She said she paid
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