Baliff Notice

[stealthwolf]

I had a similar issue. I rang the debt collector up and we agreed to meet at a certain time. Showed him my ID and my tenancy agreement, with the lettings agent name visible so he could verify everything with them too. No issues after that.

[johnnyvr6]

iv seen it on that ballifs program just show them your id they will leave you alone,or keep a bat behind your door if you get some meat head trying to force his way in wrap it round his nut lol

[[han]]

iv seen it on that ballifs program just show them your id they will leave you alone,or keep a bat behind your door if you get some meat head trying to force his way in wrap it round his nut lol

you watch classic daytime tv too?

 

[johnnyvr6]

oh hell yeah cant beat abit of prime time tv lol

[DubFan]

I had a similar issue. I rang the debt collector up and we agreed to meet at a certain time. Showed him my ID and my tenancy agreement, with the lettings agent name visible so he could verify everything with them too. No issues after that.

Don't even need to do that.
I've had letters for previous tenants with unpaid Sky bills (£100+), unpaid heating bills and stuff. Each time, just rang the company on the letter, told them I was the current tenant and the date we moved in, and that was it.
I guess if it was more than £1000 they might want proof, so meeting them with ID and tenancy agreement might be the only way.
But basically, it can't hurt to call the company on the letter.
Call them, find out the deal, they might drop it there and then, or might want to meet for proof, but should be easily sorted.

[VW BUSH]

I see these all the time for the flat upstairs, The Landlord takes cash/Dss tenants they rent for a year borrow loads of money / buy loads of big expensive goods and do the off.
They have many names each, mostly combinations of the same names.
One perp had a black VW at the same time as me, and i got followed to work few times.
All of the trouble has been with foreign nationals bar one English guy who had a court order to not even be in the borough (ABH/GBH on former spouse) and convictions for coke dealing.

Most of these bogus people woud not be able to set up properly if the Landlord did the right checks and took a 6 month deposit, a large chunk of our fraud problems are from the buy to let boom of the last few years imho, with landlords floating slum empires on dodgey tenants with no questions asked.....
Consequently my relationship with the landlord is very tense, especialy since I cost him 4k in back tax on his "non buy to let mortgage"

[VW BUSH]

I had a similar issue. I rang the debt collector up and we agreed to meet at a certain time. Showed him my ID and my tenancy agreement, with the lettings agent name visible so he could verify everything with them too. No issues after that.

Don't even need to do that.
I've had letters for previous tenants with unpaid Sky bills (£100+), unpaid heating bills and stuff. Each time, just rang the company on the letter, told them I was the current tenant and the date we moved in, and that was it.
I guess if it was more than £1000 they might want proof, so meeting them with ID and tenancy agreement might be the only way.
But basically, it can't hurt to call the company on the letter.
Call them, find out the deal, they might drop it there and then, or might want to meet for proof, but should be easily sorted.

Both of you are right, this approach gets it sorted quick, most baliffs dont want to chase shadows any longer than they have to.