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A bailiff put this through the door earlier today. After ignoring a few letters and returning a few other letters. It seems that we will have an issue with the council tax debt accumulated by some guy completely unknown to us in a council in the other corner of London.
We can prove we have lived and owned the property for two years, the previous owner was an elderly lady who went to a care home. So it is either a scam, an error in the address or someone took advantage of the period the property was empty to register the debt to this address.
Can we get rid of these people without a spending £££ on a lawyer? In all honesty I am quite sceptical about writing to them with any our personal details in case they do something dodgy like transferring the debt to us.
Has someone had a similar situation? Any advice would be greatly appreciated
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frankohara
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Believe it or not, it’s illegal to open post that’s addressed to someone else. So delete that post and ignore the letters, or when you get another letter cross out the address, write “no longer at this address” on the letter and pop it back in a post box. The letters will get increasingly angry and threatening and then they will stop as there’s nothing they can do.
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As jameo said, if not addressed to you don't stress it.
If it's bothering you phone newlyn plc, tell em the person they're chasing for money isn't at your address.
I've had multiple debt agencies chasing the previous tennant at my address, phoned them all, letters have ceased.
Jameo
jontea
I bought a flat. It has been fine. We do seem to have pretty good management company though and the other owners are mostly not lunatics.
Obviously I'd have bought a fucking mansion if I could afford it but alas London's Famous London isn't the most reasonable of property markets.