AvanteUSA is a third-party collection agency based in Texas. AvanteUSA has received consumer complaints alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), such as failing to verify debts and using false or misleading language in an effort to collect a debt. AvanteUSA has contacted you about past due collection items,make sure you understand your rights before responding.
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They’re legit. According to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) AvanteUSA is a legitimate collection agency incorporated in 2003 and is based in Houston, Texas.The BBB established a profile page for AvanteUSA in 2005 and is listed as a collection agency. Manta estimates Avante USA’s annual revenue at $5 to 10 million and the size of its headquarters staff at 50 to 100 employees.
AvanteUSA collects on consumers with outstanding credit card, education, auto, commercial, and retail debt. This company also includes a full-fledged medical billing and collections division, and goes after payment from insurance companies for medical debt also. Along with amassing directly for healthcare providers, AvanteUSA collects on behalf of organizations that buy debt.
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As of April 2017, the Better Business Bureau reported 66 closed AvanteUSA complaints over the previous few decades, including 16 closed AvanteUSA complaints over the past 12 months. Additionally, Justia lists three AvanteUSA complaints filed in federal court in the past year alleging violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Moreover, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) lists 25 closed AvanteUSA complaints for 2016.
AvanteUSA
3600 S. Gessner Road, Suite 225
Houston, TX 77063
Phone Number: 832-476-1740
Website: http://www.avanteusa.com/
It is illegal for a debt collector to make empty threats to sue you or garnish your wages. It is also unlikely AvanteUSA would sue you for a debt you may not owe or they cannot validate. However, debt collection agencies are known to have summoned debtors to court and garnish wages after a default judgement. Contacting an attorney BEFORE this could possibly happen would be a smart move. We’ve helped thousands of consumers fight back against unscrupulous debt collection harassers. Find out if we can help you too today!
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November 26, 2015. When it comes to debt settlements, it’s always important to verify the agreement and keep close track of what happens as events unfold. Our client tells us that, in April, Brownstone Law Group, which is AvanteUSA’s agent, negotiated a settlement between AvanteUSA and our client. The agreement was to settle the debt for $290. Our client paid that amount with the understanding that the debt would be paid in full.
But in June, our client received a call from TrueAccord, a debt collector trying to collect the same debt. TrueAccord told our client that AvanteUSA had reversed the $290 payment and sent her account to TrueAccord for collection. AvanteUSA called our client and their representative told her that the $290 had been reversed, but didn’t give a reason.
When our client looked at her records, she found that AvanteUSA had refunded her $290 payment – after accepting and holding the payment for over a month.
Our client’s case, which was recently filed in U.S. District Court, Central District of California, charges AvanteUSA with violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by using false, deceptive, or misleading representation in connection with the collection of a debt; and by using unfair and unconscionable means to collect a debt. It asks for statutory damages of $1,000, plus other relief. It also charges AvanteUSA with violating California’s Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
Federal laws protect you. The Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA) regulates the behavior of collection agencies by prohibiting actions such as the use of abusive or threatening language; harassment; or the use of false or misleading information to collect a debt. The FCRA regulates how collection agencies and creditors report delinquent debts to credit reporting agencies. Additional consumer protection laws include the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA).
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Yes. If you want to enforce your rights, or recover money for violations — you need to sue. Federal laws provide individuals like you with a means to seek monetary damages in court. For example, the FDCPA allows consumers who have been violated to recover damages of up to $1,000, plus attorney fees and court costs.
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Sergei Lemberg is an attorney focusing on consumer law, class actions related to automotive issues, and personal injury litigation. With nearly two decades of experience, his areas of practice include Lemon Law (vehicle defects), Debt Collection Harassment, TCPA (illegal robocalls and texts), Fair Credit Reporting Act, Overtime claims, Personal Injury cases, and Class Actions. He has consistently been recognized as the nation's "most active consumer attorney." In 2020, Mr. Lemberg represented Noah Duguid before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case Duguid v. Facebook. He is also the author of "Defanging Debt Collectors," a guide that empowers consumers to fight back against debt collectors and prevail, as well as "Lemon Law 101: The Laws That Lemon Dealers Don't Want You to Know."
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Every week, I recieve a voicemail from 866-604-6073 with the caller identifying himself as AvanteUSA and that it’s an attempt to collect a debt. I have one message saved to my desktop PC and two touchdowns n my archived voicemails. Here is a transcription of the latest message:
“This message is for C_____ M_____ . By continuing to listen to this meaaage, you acknowledge you are C_____ M_____ and not listening to this message in the presence of others (even legal counsel?)
This message is from AvanteUSA and the office of attorney Leland Bowle (unclear) as in-house counsel. This communication is from a debt collector. ThIs is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
Please contact our office at 866-604-6073. Thank you for your time and I do look forward to your call, Mr. M_____. ”
Aside from a record of dubious collection practices, I have two questions, the answer to which the banking system’s claim that we our them a debt are hinging on:
1} How is it that “banking” contends that is created money, as purported debts, to a purported banking system which may or may not even give up commensurable consideration in the process?
2) What knowledgeable public assent gives the purported banking system the privilege of lending money into existence without giving up commensurable consideration in the process?
This, after all, is something I would expect the banking systems across the globe, as well and it’s legal counsel and advocates would already know from such plentiful and faithful documentation as legitimate enterprise would have already provided.
If money is representation of entitlement, then it would have to derive all of it’s substance from what somebody gave up for it. Therefore it is altogether legally, rationally and and logically impossible to lend money into existence without giving up commensurable consideration in the process. Therefore, our debts have never been to the banking system but, in the contrary, can only ever be out debts to each other.
In in cases across the globe, going back to 1976, not a single bank has dared challenge these legally omnipotent arguments in a court of law.
Rather than beung forced to answer these questions (to which there is obviously no answer), time and time again, banks have walked in as much $10 Million of (falsified) debt.
I would rather submit these arguments to a debt collector than anything else, but so far no attorney has accepted any of our cases. Oddly enough, I have never heard the reason why.
Warm Regards,
Charles M