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Anyone here do it?

Seems like a simple job is this something anyone can do at their own leisure?

I'm in construction so when work is slow and i'm laid off it's something to do and maybe decent extra $.

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No.  But I use a mix of process servers.  Unless it's some specialty service like international or across the country, it would be hard to make a decent buck on it.

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I had a neighbor that did it. He had his ass kicked a couple of times for not a lot of money . He seemed to do alright otherwise

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I work with alot of security guys who do it..It does not pay $40-$50 to serve someone you can spend many hours searching plus you pay for your car and gas.....

I know a guy had to serve some guy 100 miles away and he was onto being served. Took 3 tries before he got. thats 600 miles of driving and many hours for $50.

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I had a neighbor that did it. He had his ass kicked a couple of times for not a lot of money . He seemed to do alright otherwise

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One of my buddies serves warrants AND he has a Private Investigator's license.  A few local lawyers use him for all their legwork (spy on cheating spouses, watch accident victims, serve papers, whatever).  
He seems to enjoy his work but I don't think he makes a lot of cash.  

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Maybe the better ARFCOM question is: "Have you been served papers by a private process server?"

I have.......Then again, I knew the server and was expecting the paper.

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I've been served three times and each time, it just happened to coincide with me not being easy to find.

No particular reason.  Not mad at process server.  Still, fuck 'em.  Call me and ask for a waiver of service and I'll meet you.

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I've been served three times and each time, it just happened to coincide with me not being easy to find.

No particular reason.  Not mad at process server.  Still, fuck 'em.  Call me and ask for a waiver of service and I'll meet you.

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Dumb, but now mildly amusing story.  

Back story on the anti-dueling statute here.  http://www.virginiadefamationlawyer.com/2012/08/virginias-insulting-words-statute.html

The law stems from 1810 where dueling had very serious consequences.  For instance, members of the General Assembly had to take an oath that they had never engaged in a duel or else they could not take office.  So they passed a law that gave a person a civil remedy if they walked away from insulting words that would tend to provoke violence.

I had words with opposing counsel in a deposition of my client.  His client had stolen some personal and and irrelevant documents belonging to my client.  The attorney showed them to my client for the purpose of embarrassing him. I accused his client of stealing the documents (he clearly did).  The old attorney on the other side served me with his lawsuit three days before the trial in that case seeking $1,000,000 in damages stating that I insulted him and that my words tended to provoke violence.  Then the bastard shows up the morning of trial in the underlying case and says his client has declared bankruptcy.  That case gets stayed.  Meanwhile I filed a motion to dismiss (in Virginia called a demurrer) to his anti-dueling statute claim.  Judge tossed it at the first hearing.  

I got the last laugh as I got the bankruptcy court in an adversary proceeding to rule his client had no claim.  The attorney died while the case was going on.  His client lost everything.  

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Anyone here do it?



Seems like a simple job is this something anyone can do at their own leisure?



I'm in construction so when work is slow and i'm laid off it's something to do and maybe decent extra $.

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Couple of big collections firms got in trouble with the NY Attorney General over sewer serving years ago. But it's not like these turds ever get thrown in jail or anything
 

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Buddy of mine was a process server for maybe ten years, had a little business and did it for large law firms, locally and for state/national firms. He said all the time that other process servers he talked to admitted they did not really serve the papers, primarily in collections and foreclosure cases. One guy flat out told him he just lied and said he made the requisite number of attempts and then nailed and mailed while all he really did was throw the papers out.  

I've typed this story out too many times.I went to his house one afternoon, he called me to help him move a desk or use my truck or something. I got there and in the office in his house there was a stack of papers about knee high. I recognized the plaintiff firm, they are notorious scumbags. Years before they had taken a default against a client of mine who had served a pro se answer-whoops he had sent it return receipt.

I asked what all the papers were, and he basically said they had refused to pay some of his bills for service and said in a round about way that he charged too much and that the other process servers just lied, I think their exact words were "I only need an affidavit from you, understand me? We don't have this problem with other people we use" he told them to fuck off and hung up. I saw some of the papers were going to become "stale" (more than 120- days from filing of the summons and you have to buy a new index number). I asked if they had asked for their papers back and he laughed and said no, the paralegal he was talking did not have the balls, they were probably copies anyway.

I open a judgment probably once or twice a year for clients who were never sued. Usually for big collections firms. They never contest the motions to reopen and they are always "suspicious", not just someone claiming not to be served, but like some guy from Long Island claiming he was six hours away in upstate New York on 5 different dates, plus things like the address is wrong-often they use an address they have on file where the person obviously no longer lives, the description does not match anyone in the house etc.

I was sewer served years ago, I think I had a lien on a house that was being foreclosed. I forgot how I found out about the foreclosure but I pulled the affidavit. The funny thing is the guy's description of me was spot on and he was from outside the area. I almost thought maybe I had been handed the papers and forgot, until I checked the address, it was an office I had rented years ago and had not been there in at least five years. I then checked my calendar and billing vouchers and I was in trial at the time he served me.

Couple of big collections firms got in trouble with the NY Attorney General over sewer serving years ago. But it's not like these turds ever get thrown in jail or anything