They sent me a W-9 to fill out. I think they might actually pay.
Encouraging. Please let us know if/when you get a check.
I won against them in small claims in Atlanta, and they sent me a W-9. I refused to fill it out and they still paid, after I got a court order approving a lien against their property. The judgment was for less than $200 though.
(17MS094034, Fulton County Magistrate Court, Georgia.)
How badass is that?
:)
Why did you refuse to fill it out though?
I thought it was unnecessary, because the judgment amount was less than $600, which I believe is the reporting threshold for the payer.
What's a W-9? Tax form for judgement income?
Yep -- if you make over $600 (and mine was $600 + $90 for court costs) they have to send you a tax form and report it.
Future cases matter more than one little payment. For them, the best-case is if this is a one-off. The second-best case is that they can set up and control a processes to pay people off regularly. They will get stingy when they set up that process, and not for the one off payment.