Dan Weissmann
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In early April, Katelyn was in a monetary bind. At house and sick with COVID-19, she hadn’t been paid in weeks. And her payments had been due.
“My landlord is kinda beating down my door right now,” she stated in a voicemail to the podcast hotline: (724) 276-6534; that’s 724 ARM N LEG.
Weeks later, Katelyn obtained again in contact: She had made it via together with her monetary well being intact, due to a mix of taking part in hardball with one firm and figuring out the way to play good with others.
Katelyn works in collections for a monetary establishment, so she knew the way to ask for assist. Even so, she didn’t discover the method straightforward. She got here out of the ordeal with hard-won suggestions for all of us, and a heck of a narrative.
Here are two different assets from the episode: our favourite TikTok mom shares suggestions for coping with medical payments and assortment businesses, and Hello Landlord. It’s a free on-line device that robotically generates letters you possibly can ship to your landlord, asserting your authorized rights. (Right now, these rights might embody some federal protections in opposition to evictions.)
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