One lawyer told me their success rate for collecting from deadbeat tenants was in the single digit percent range, I can't imagine that would be much different.
I thought there was someone you could sell the uncollected debts to, might only get cents on the dollar but that's better than nothing.
What about doing some filtering of potential customers? Doing a credit check or something like that?
Or maybe this kind of industry needs a customer rating website, I've seen them for contractors, have them for customers so you can look up a customer and see if they've been bad (that's probably so fraught with issues to be worthless though).
What about some kind of escrow service, so the money goes into a 3rd party's hands?
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