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can they come to your place of employment?

Date: Sun, 11/12/2006 - 18:43

Submitted by anonymous
on Sun, 11/12/2006 - 18:43

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can they come to your place of employment and demand the car?


Yes, the only thing they cannot do is breach the peace, or breaking-and-entering.

Now, depending where you park the car at your employer, it may be on private property. But if the employer doesn't tell them to leave (or if they take it before the employer tells them to leave) then you can't really do anything.

I knew a guy who worked for the City of Chicago, and he would park his car in one of the parking garages. The city wouldn't let the repo guys into the garage. So they waited one morning for the guy to pull around the corner; the repo-ers pulled their truck in front of the entrance to keep him from pulling in the garage. Needless to say, they got the car.


lrhall41

Submitted by DebtCruncher on Sun, 11/12/2006 - 19:37

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Also, don't know about other states, but Illinois has the Conditional Sales Protection Act that actually makes it a criminal offense to conceal mortgaged property for the purpose of preventing a lienholder from excercising their rights. Don't know if any finance company has ever been successfull in pressing charges, though.


Quote:

(720 ILCS 240/1) (from Ch. 121 1/2, par. 157.41)
Sec. 1. Any person purchasing personal property under a conditional sales contract who, during the existence of such conditional sales contract and before the conditions thereof have been fulfilled, sells, transfers, conceals or in any manner disposes of such property, or causes or allows the same to be done without the written consent of the holder of title is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.


lrhall41

Submitted by DebtCruncher on Sun, 11/12/2006 - 19:50

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Can you go to jail if you hide the car?


lrhall41

Submitted by on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 08:31

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i don't what you mean by hiding?if you mean keeping it in the garage.that's not hiding it.


lrhall41

Submitted by paulmergel on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 08:42

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