Bailiff demand for previous tenants

marksoton

needhouseadvice wrote: »

Also I can't believe someone managed to get away with not paying £6k in bills - that's years and years worth of debt!

Eh? You could rack that up in one transaction...

needhouseadvice

marksoton wrote: »

Eh? You could rack that up in one transaction...

I think they were acting for npower - based on the average monthly electricity usage I've been told it would've taken them 8 years for rack up that much debt.

marksoton

needhouseadvice wrote: »

I think they were acting for npower - based on the average monthly electricity usage I've been told it would've taken them 8 years for rack up that much debt.

I find that very hard to believe....

pauljimmyn

I have expereinced Bailiffs and I can assure you they are NOT nice or scrupulous. I used the think like you that they were just doing their job but a year on I am still fuming at their deviousness. They deliberately visisted a previous address of mine and harrassed a vulnerable couple to give my current address, I contancted them the first i heard of the issue to find they had added £400 worrth of admistrative charges. They had no interest in treating anyone fairly, their only interest was ramping up their ludicrous charges. I wish now i had kept quiet as being honest seems to get you nowhere.
Given the opportunity i will give them the runaround and hopefully it will cost them a small proportion of the money they stole from me.

robatwork

You've resurrected an old thread - did you just search for "Bailiff" to make your not entirely clear point?

It's not clear if you owed money and were chased for it in an unscrupulous manner, or that they in some way "stole" money from you bu adding lawful fees that you took exception to?

Perhaps you need to explain your circumstances a bit more for us to base an informed opinion on.

csgohan4

pauljimmyn wrote: »

I have expereinced Bailiffs and I can assure you they are NOT nice or scrupulous. I used the think like you that they were just doing their job but a year on I am still fuming at their deviousness. They deliberately visisted a previous address of mine and harrassed a vulnerable couple to give my current address, I contancted them the first i heard of the issue to find they had added £400 worrth of admistrative charges. They had no interest in treating anyone fairly, their only interest was ramping up their ludicrous charges. I wish now i had kept quiet as being honest seems to get you nowhere.
Given the opportunity i will give them the runaround and hopefully it will cost them a small proportion of the money they stole from me.

So you owed money and did a runner and your complaining about the charges someone is trying to get back the money you owe? Do you think bailiff's work for free?


If you paid your dues in the first place, then there wouldn't be a problem would there?

Rover-man

EmmyLou30 wrote: »

I think people who call them scum and shout 'I don't know how you sleep at night' and that sort of thing are the guilty debtors in general....if you're owed money then of course you're going to employ people to get it for you and you should pay up if you owe money. Nothing scummy about someone just doing their job.

No offence but you come across as quite naive. This industry has a legitimate face but with some dodgy people employed and some companies have pretty shady business practices.

I've never missed a payment on any form of credit in my life but I have been hassled by these people over other peoples debts, as have my family members.

The first time at the age of 14, I had a debt collector on my door in conversation with me for half an hour trying to get entry to the house and information out of me about one of my relations. We lived in a semi-detached house with fairly large grounds and this guy proceeded to trespass around the grounds looking for items to remove after having the conversation with me and there was nothign I could do to get rid.

Worse still, when my father was terminally ill with a few months to live, a company went after him, constant phone calls, constnatly hassling other family members for the money until finally my brother paid up juwst to get rid of them.

Whilst there is a need for debt collectors, don't be so deluded to think that a lot of the people who hate them do so because they've been in debt themselves. It really angers me when people say, 'oh they're juwst doing their job', the point is they're not doing their job properly.

Money_maker

Nothing to see here, old thread. Why oh why do people keep resurrecting them.

Rover-man

Guest101 wrote: »

Everyone’s name and address goes on the full version of the electoral register. The full version of the register is only used for:

• elections
• preventing and detecting crime
• checking applications for loans or credit

It makes no difference who is on the electoral roll, debt collectors AND baillifs will attend properties regadless as the person may still be living there.

I've had baillifs with a locksmith at my door before even though the person they were looking for had never officially lived at my property. They were the boyfriend of the previous tenant, who wasn't on the original tenancy agreement. I am a council tenant and the previous tenant showed me this agreement when I did the mutual exchange.

theartfullodger

If you get someone banging on door demanding £6k & to be let in just say no: Any further aggro call Police...