My question involves collection proceedings in the State of: Florida
Hello everyone!This site has been a great source of knowledge for me, and hopefully someone will be able to help me be better prepared in regards to the following:
This morning, a relative that I am temporarily staying with informed me that someone attempted to serve me a summons from Chase. I am about to move in a few days to a different state for a military-related matter, so my relative covered for me and informed the representative that I moved and he wasn't sure where I was.
I checked the County Clerk of Courts website, and sure enough, there is an open civil matter against me, filed a few days ago, from Midland Funding LLC.
I reviewed my recent credit report, and Midland Funding LLC has apparently purchased my $13,000 credit card debt from Chase.
The original Chase credit card account was opened in Massachusetts in 2003. I currently live in Florida, and I am fairly certain (off the top of my head) that any last payment that I made to Chase was possibly in 2007/2008 (the account has long since been closed), which I believe has circled -- if not surpassed -- the statue of limitations for this debt.
Regardless, after researching some options, I have sent a certified/tracked validation letter request, via 2nd Day Air, to the address listed on my credit report for Midland Funding LLC (in San Diego, California), politely demanding that they validate/confirm all of the debt-related details from Chase over the past years.
I will continue to monitor the County Clerk of Courts website for pending status updates, but as of now, I will be moving around a bit due to the military/training, so I don't know what they will attempt to do. I really hope that Midland doesn't state that I rejected a summons when in fact I never received it!
Obviously, I know I screwed up. I plan to resolve all of the debts that I have, but I just can't afford to do so at the moment. Once I have some military aspects taken care of, I should be able to seriously tackle the debt in another year or so.
Thank you in advance for your time -- I really appreciate it. Any advice/recommendations/suggestions that you may have for me would be welcomed. Thanks again!

