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Yes it does but you need to stand by your assertion that you consider it closed (and put it all in an email rather than a call)
They will not pursue you for this it is simply not worth their time or effort given the ambiguity over the chronology of events.
Years ago I used to do a bit of debt recovery when I was starting out and the main tool in the debt recovery solicitors toolbox is the instillation of fear in the alleged debtor.Fear of the unknown, fear of processes they don't understand, fear their credit record will be impacted, fear Bailiffs will turn up and take the TV. We used to send them a filled in claim form (not issued at court so it was absolutely worthless and had no weight at all) and say at the bottom of the letter this will be issued shortly. It hardly ever was because people used to piss themselves and pay up- they were holding a claim form and it looked official even though it was absolutely meaningless at that point.
You therefore need to stand by your assertion it's over as far as you are concerned and not reply to any correspondence over this from hereon in. That is absolutely critical.
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Back to one of the reasons that I wish to move, the ongoing legal situation with the service charge;
The service charge for H1 2020 is £1387.29, so dividing that equally over Q1 and Q2 gives a charge per quarter of £693.66.
We're being pursued for arrears of £711.88, of which if I had not suspended the standing order ~£687 would have been paid on the 25th of March (this was the H2 2019 figure, which we'd not updated inline with the increase in the service charge to reflect the actual H1 2020 figure).
I suspended the standing order because the solicitor stated in their letter that if I had allowed the payment to be made (to the account of the managing agent) I'd be liable for a £95 charge.
Now, we are in Q2, and the standing order for the 25th of June has been revised to pay £693.66 (inline with the H1 2020 service charge, which would have left (genuine) arrears of £18.22 on the 26th of June.
I have therefore paid the £18.22 today, and the standing order will pay the remainder of the H1 2020 service charge on schedule on the 25th of June.
My plan is to call Brady's solicitors tomorrow and inform them that:
a) I've paid the £18.22, so the outstanding balance is precisely half the H1 2020 service charge
b) And that will be paid on schedule by standing order on the 25th of June
c) Therefore I consider the matter to be closed, as despite repeated requests they have not shown that I am in arrears, and everything is scheduled to be paid on time, as per my agreement with Martin back in late 2010/early 2011
d) I would like a letter from them confirming that this entire discussion is at an end
Does this sound reasonable?