Bailiff coming at 7pm - what are the legal ins and outs??

[Zephyrrywitchescat]

One turned up earlier today but I didn't answer the door.He left a letter saying it was for council tax from our old house which dp is one month late with.
The letter says 'unless you contact the bailiff within the next 3 days we will return with a view to levy distress on your goods blah blah blah.

So, dp called them right away. He is a month late with a payment of 100.00, the letter says today's visit fee is 22.50. The bailiff is demanding 150.00 tonight or is taking our stuff.

Can he do it that quick? dp offered him 50.00 today and the rest on Friday but he said no, 150.00 tonight and that's it. But if we had waited the 3 days to ring him we could have paid it all on Friday!

Is he in the right to do it this way or can we make an offer of payment until Friday?

that's a lot of council tax! If you only pay £150 a month, don't forget you'll be having to pay this year's debt off while at the same time paying next year's council tax...

Have you got other debts too? The CAB have a really good debt advice service.

hmmm it seems a very hard handed tactic - is it worth writing to your local newspaper

'I rang one bailiff place when they sent several letters here to the previous ocupants. I tld them the people had bene evicted months before hand , but they wanted me to send untillity bills in my name as proof that I now lived here.

I told them to bogg off. If i did that for every letter that gets sent for them i'd be buying the post office out of stamps.'

This happens to us, too, nutcackle. I tell them to piss off as well. It's THEIR fking job to figure out where hte person went, you're not under any obligation to have to defend yourself or prove yourself to these thugs.

One of the previous occupants skipped out on £15,000 worth of student loans. C'mon! Those are government-backed, it'd be easy enough to use her NI number to trace her!