Business Rates & Bailiff SUCCESS :)

[altcompany]

Hello,

 

Just wanted to update you on the latest regarding my business rates issue.

 

The council have taken back the debt and offered me a very reasonable monthly fee to pay it back. I've been fighting this for 18 months, didnt take too much just a few serious letters and not backing down. Newlyns have been told where to go basically. They tried to get around 1000 from me in "charges" but now this is all gone and I don't have to deal with them anymore.

 

Follow advice in this forum and don't back down, I would simply recommend stay true to telling your debtors what you want to pay them and stick to it, you have the commanding position then, make sure you follow up on complaints and make it known to all you are not going to be pressured into doing anything beyond your means, especially with bailiffs, don't talk to them or even open the door just write to the head office and make sure you get copies of everything.

 

It works

 

GOOD LUCK and thanks to everyone thats helped me, ploddertom and the other admins are a blessing!

 

Regards

 

J

[ploddertom]

Pleased to hear you have a result.

 

PT

[tomtubby]

It is good to hear that you have been successful in your complaint.

 

[EDIT]. What I find is VERY worrying indeed is that in this electronic age, debtors do NOT write letters and if they do, many of them resort to "text talk" in the letter. There is no "paper trail" .

 

Instead, many people will make a payment arrangement with a bailiff at the doorstep or even worse, by way of a mobile phone with NOTHING at all in writing.

[brassnecked]

Great result, and another lose for the bad guys, but tomtubby is right, in respect of letters, a paper trail is essential, as it is amazing how the bailiff company can hand the ammunition to the victim on a plate in writing. If you email, request a read receipt and print it, back it up with a letter by a signed for service, if phoned by, or you phone the bailiff, try to record the calls, THIS IS NOT ILLEGAL, as it is amazing how a form of memory loss afflicts them, regarding phone calls.

[seanamarts]

Good news! well done

[hallowitch]

good news well done