Suttell & Hammer
Reviews and Complaints

Low scum of the earth - they try to collect by scare tactics as they are law firm - however they are junk debt buyers and break the law just to collect money from the less informed. They can't hack it as real attorneys so they pray on the uninformed public...real scum bag lowest of the low human beings on the planet. I met them in court- real losers. They can't make it in life...probably all alcoholics so they drink themselves to sleep at night.

Anyone has a current physical address for S&H?

they are scavengers.

I just had my entire bank account garnished with no prior notice. I am on disability and am currently waiting for my court date. All this because I transfered my back pay for SSID to my checking account to pay on bills. I called them after receving paperwork (after they took the money) and to date have had no answer.

New office address : 10900 NE 8th st suite 605 Bellevue, Wa

It's no wonder someone would attack their office, even trying to pay a debt (in full) is a hassle. I did not dispute, or try to bring the dollar amount down... All I wanted was to pay my debt and have the judgment removed so I could close on my home. I lost the house I was going to purchase because they drug their feet and did not do as promised if I paid in full that same day with a cashiers check. Because it was my fault in not closing I also lost the 5% Ernst money I put out on a 300k home... They got what they wanted and now I no longer have a place to live nor any savings because they can't do their job.

Just want to say these low life's charged me double what my original debt was and then failed to disclose the interest until the debt was paid off. I have never had a more disgusting experience with a company in my life.

I dealt with them last year and finally settled a debt with them. I corresponded on 2, but after the first one was settled, I never received a response on the second debt. That was summer 2013. Today I discovered my entire bank account had been garnished.
Per advice on another blog on this subject, I checked court records. They had filed back in Nov 2013, the hearing was Jan 2014. I never received any notice that either of these things were occurring, so therefore had no ability to respond.
Sleazy, sleazy practice, and I would think, illegal.

Suttell & Hammer is a law firm, can’t say they are a good law firm but nonetheless, fill in your own blank here____. What I can say is that from my experience is that the attorneys are most likely just out of law school and may or may not have actually passed the bar exam. This practice is common and legal think of it as Ma Suttell and Pa Hammer getting cheap and incredibly stupid worker bees. I will disclose I have debt, at the time of this posting it is a whopping, wait for it . . . $1, 906.70. I question their business savvy to go after such a small amount with such drama and expense. But, hey I love me some unnecessary over the top drama, lol! I laugh because they can’t even get an autopay full set up correctly. Trust me on this one, they have spent much more than the $1, 906.70 to collect on me by calling me on the phone and having me served legal documents by the county sherriff’s department, sending out letters. Okay, I admit they pushed my buttons and I have made unnecessary phone calls to them just to mess with their profits. This firm is so disorganized and poorly managed it is hard not to mess with them, it’s too easy.
Their staff of “legal assistants” does not seem competent and they also “transfer”, (more likely are fired), to other departments on a regular basis. I translate this practice as; they got some kids who think they are in sales to collect debts and given the job title of “legal assistant” to make them feel important. Seriously they are some of the dumbest people I have encountered. Can’t get upset because they really think they are something special, after talking with them I just shake my head and laugh at their expense.
They, attorneys and staff, really are that dumb. No really, they must have obtained their law degrees online.
You can bang your head against the wall easily with this group of young and dumb “professionals”. My advice to everyone dealing with this group of idiots without their village is: 1. Set up autopay – this puts them on notice, and 2. Document, document, document all interaction you have with them. And have a good laugh.

If you are a debtor being contacted by Suttell & Hammer, do yourself a big favor: go online and browse the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA). That Act will show you how to begin to deal with this low-life law firm. After reading about the FDCPA, continue your research by browsing on Google--"Debt Buyers." Your journey will be of genuine help to you and will educate on methods to resist this law firm and other filthy, pathetic law firms that pursue charged-off debt bought from banks, etc. Knowlege is power.

The same law firm is garnishing my wages and taking over $800 a month for the next three months. I have just finished graduate school and just found a good job. However, my son and I will be on the streets and all of our other bills / creditors will be also going to collections due to the lawyers office taking everything from me. I can't pay rent. How is this legal? My son and I don't have anything to give. We can barely make ends meet and now- we are loosing our apartment. Where the F... are we going to live?

I had a judgement they put against me with out even being served papers. Just getting Judgement papers in the mail that I had mss the court date so the judgement was awarded. It was on a Capital One card it was for more then I owed so I went ahead and made payments and I paid this off back in 2006 and it is still showing up on my credit as not being paid and now I have not found a way to get a hold of them to find out what is going on. Any help would be nice to clear my credit. taxi4dancer@yahoo.com

Yes the samething happened to me. They served me at my old address knowing that I no longer lived there. I'm paying over $2, 000 for a $500 credit card. I believe these people are crooks.

They pulled a similar scheme on me. I paid what they 1st tried to hit me for, they got mad and located another debt to the same company. They then failed to serve me, refused to provide proof of anything and were very shocked when I actually showed up in court. They said I owe 10, 000.00 on a $3, 000.00 debt that I was actually paying. For a long time, I thought that they just dropped it. They are now Garnishing my check. This means that again (at least 3X), they have held hearings that I was not notified of. They also keep trying to serve a party who does not live at my addrerss and refuse (though they have it in writing from myself and the other party) to beleive that they do not live here. I have reported them 2X for mail fraud but, they can afford not to care - I'd really like to hit them with a (Contingincy) class action law suit based on all the complaints I've read and what they are doing to me. Course, I can't afford a lawyer - they make sure of that. If anyone knows of a lawyer interested - count me in and contact me via email at diboself@gte.net