Would you open their letters?

[JustAskinPa]

Moved into a new house last year and since then we've just received letter after letter and multiple visits from bailiffs for the old tenant.

I'm getting frankly sick of it. The seller doesn't know where he went neither do the agents. I get multiple letters a day for this guy and have had another bailiff visit this morning when I was out with a card saying they would come back. I know they aren't for me but it's embarrassing when they are at the door tbh.

WIBU to open the letters that have come and ring every single one of these companies to tell them to stop writing here and sending people out.

The last time a bailiff came and we were in it was at 10pm and I had to stand at the door showing them our ID with a screaming baby they had just woken up. Its really starting to get on my nerves now.

I had this when i rented a house. All the letters were for the landlady. One day bailiff's turned up to evict us, even though i was paying £1100 a month rent she hadn't paid her mortgage in months.. The only thing that stopped them from taking possession was that the only person in the house at the time was my 14 year old Son. When i turned up the bailiff advised me to open the pile of letters that arrived daily for the landlady, he stayed with me as i opened them. Not including mortgage arrears, she owed 20k+ . The Bailiff phoned his company and gave them a list of the other debt collectors that were chasing her and they kindly phoned those companies and told them the situation. The Bailiff advised me to phone my letting agent and insist they find me another property, 3 weeks and i was out of there. Don't hang about OP get on to every debt collector that is chasing the ex owner today.

@DeadButDelicious

We're having issues with this at the moment. I have been writing 'not known at this address' and posting them back for over a year now and it's made zero difference. All I know about the previous tenants is that they have moved back to France. I came downstairs yesterday morning to a hand delivered letter from the bailiffs saying they were going to turn up and seize goods in 24 hours. Which is always nice at 7am.

My husband rang the number and was given a tirade of abuse by the bailiff very heavily implying that he wanted his money and he didn't care who from. Lovely.

So now I have to dig out my tenancy agreement to show to this 'gentleman' if and when he decides to come back. If he hadn't decided to be such an arse and basically threaten us I might have sent it to him via email but as it goes I'll let him waste his time.

I would start opening letters and ringing places to set the record straight, that's what I'm going to start doing and if anyone comes to the door do not let them in.

Complain to the bailiff's company about their harassment. When the company's response is not satisfactory, complain to the CIVEA. If the bailiff won't properly identify themselves, report it to the police.

www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/action-your-creditor-can-take/bailiffs/stopping-bailiffs/stopping-bailiffs-if-you-dont-owe-the-debt/

www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/action-your-creditor-can-take/bailiffs/how-bailiffs-should-treat-you/complaining-about-bailiffs/

@safariboot Thank you I will definitely look into that!

They've just been back (dressed up like a bloody swat team with body cameras on, that must be absolutely terrifying for vulnerable people) and they were much 'nicer' to me than they were to DH.

I've shown them what they wanted to see so that should be the end of it now. Until the next lot turn up. Looking at the letters he's racked up over £25k, mostly for cars and parking fines it would seem. When DD is back at nursery I'll start calling.

Thank you for that info, I will stash it.

@JustAskinPa

My brother had this with a house he rented (the last tenants in there) and he did his own detective work and found them on facebook Which identified their place of work and rang there to speak to them, and he had a pile of letters ready at the door with the letting agency details on and their tenancy dates and their employees names and addresses and it went on the whole year he was there and even once he'd moved out (he left a 2 week cross over to clean and let them facilitate viewings) someone knocked on the door even then.

Do you rent or own?