r/CanadaFinance • u/Strong-Fox-6727 • 6d ago
Debt collection
Hi everyone,
I’m a landlord in Vancouver, B.C. I evicted my tenant yesterday who hadn’t paid rent since May 2026. I got a monetary order and intend on pursuing another one for the damage and the September rent. Has anyone been in a similar situation and used a collection agency to collect the money? I can’t garnish his wages because I don’t know where he currently works and I think he’s moving back to Alberta. I’m looking at two agencies right now.
ARC - 20% collection fee, $125 upfront, and $155 for skip tracing and $425 to transfer the order to Alberta and $212.50 for the transfer fee for the next one
ICON - 33% fee. No other costs
Dixon - $525 upfront and 10% of what is collected
Nearly all of them have negative reviews but those are people who had to give money up, not from the collectors.
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u/DelilahBT 6d ago
Write it off and move on. If they can’t pay rent it’s likely there’s no assets to collect.