<prompt> Human: Back 3 years ago when I was right out of college, the large apartment complex that I rented from had bed bugs and they got into my apartment. I fought with management to get pest control, but they refused to do much except let off some bug bombs. These things started to drive me crazy and I told them that they had to get this resolved.They didnt do anything and I decided that I was close to going nuts and had to move out 2 months before my lease was up. I ended up tossing almost all of my belongings because I was paranoid about them coming with me. About 2 years ago, I get served and they took me to small claims for about 2k in unpaid rentinterestchargesetc.Myself and their lawyer met before some sort of arbitrator and we agreed to another meeting a month from then. In the meantime, I contacted the lawyer and he said we could work out some sort of agreement and would send me an offer. Being young and dumb, I didnt show up to that other meeting assuming the attorney took care of it and the lawyer didnt contact me again. Boom, default judgment.This was about 3 years ago and I havent been contacted by anyone. They know my contact information and whereabouts. This drags on my credit report, while most everything else is good. I dont want to stir up the hornets nest, but I dont know if I can wait another 4 years. Does anyone have advice on how to proceed? Should I try to validate this through traditional letters to the agencies? Or should I try and find the old attorney and see if they would do a pay for vacate, but maybe screw myself over in the process? Thanks in advance.Bed bug free for 3 years!  <response>: They already won judgement on you. Check local state laws and attorney to see what the statute of limitations on collecting judgement is. My biggest concern is theyre just waiting for your bank account to have a certain amount of money before they raid it or something weird like that.Captain hindsight: you should have taken them to court for defaulting on the lease when they refused to adequately address the pest problem. Too late now, I think : 