Fair Collections and Outsourcing is a Maryland based third party debt collector that works almost exclusively in rental housing, recovering unpaid rent and move out balances for apartment communities and property managers nationwide. Here is what the company does, how to reach it, and what a consumer should know if an FCO letter shows up.

When a rental property changes hands, both sides of the lease tend to get nervous.

Evicting a tenant from a luxury apartment is not the same as evicting a tenant from a standard unit, even though the underlying legal process is identical. The law does not have a separate eviction track for high-end rentals; the same state statutes, notices, and court procedures apply.

Commercial real estate landlords are facing the hardest market in a generation, and unpaid rent is at the center of it. Office availability rates in major markets are pushing toward 20 percent, there are roughly 170 million square feet of office sublease space on the market nationally

Mississippi is a state where the burden of choosing a good collection agency falls heavily on the creditor, because the state itself does relatively little gatekeeping.

Luxury rental properties sit at the high end of the residential market, and the collection partner you choose for them needs to operate at that level too.