Ex landlord from two years ago is claiming that I am still resident as a tenant and is throwing current bills at me via a debt collectors for a place that I have not been iving in physically or legally for over 1.7 years !
The thing is that he himself setup the bills under my name !
I left my ex tenancy 1.7 years ago settling up etc, notifying the the ex-landlord that I was leaving according to the break out lause in the contract and the b'stard tried to get me to pay Council Tax for my ex tenantancy many months later for time that I was not there, I fought it with the my old Council (a completely different borough) and I won, the council even wrote to me confirming that the ex landlord had notified them that I had left the borough when I said I left - I still have the letter proving this and the original tenancy agreeent showing start date !
Now 1.7 years later I get a bill for that same old tenancy claiming that I owe them money for April 2008 onwards but I was never there physically or legally ! I have proof that I lived in a different borough and home since Mar 2007 ! and that my old tenancy agreement of 1.7 years had ended.
Now I think the ladlord is trying to cheat me into paying current bills on his property so that if I pay them by admisssion I would be classified as a tenant there still ! Event the debt collection agency was sneaky enough to not disclose the dates or even the ex-residency address that the debt was associated with ! I had to call them up to find out. Bloody April 2008 to April 2009 water rates bill ! I tell ya !
The whole thing smacks of fraud / the land lord misleading a utility bill supplier to try and get me to pay his bills for him ad infinitum !
Advice needed on how to stop this landlord doing this once and for all (he tried it with Council tax a long time ago, now that times are hard he is trying it on again)....... I think I need to report him to some watch dog company .. help needed.....
thanks in advance
The thing is that he himself setup the bills under my name !
I left my ex tenancy 1.7 years ago settling up etc, notifying the the ex-landlord that I was leaving according to the break out lause in the contract and the b'stard tried to get me to pay Council Tax for my ex tenantancy many months later for time that I was not there, I fought it with the my old Council (a completely different borough) and I won, the council even wrote to me confirming that the ex landlord had notified them that I had left the borough when I said I left - I still have the letter proving this and the original tenancy agreeent showing start date !
Now 1.7 years later I get a bill for that same old tenancy claiming that I owe them money for April 2008 onwards but I was never there physically or legally ! I have proof that I lived in a different borough and home since Mar 2007 ! and that my old tenancy agreement of 1.7 years had ended.
Now I think the ladlord is trying to cheat me into paying current bills on his property so that if I pay them by admisssion I would be classified as a tenant there still ! Event the debt collection agency was sneaky enough to not disclose the dates or even the ex-residency address that the debt was associated with ! I had to call them up to find out. Bloody April 2008 to April 2009 water rates bill ! I tell ya !
The whole thing smacks of fraud / the land lord misleading a utility bill supplier to try and get me to pay his bills for him ad infinitum !
Advice needed on how to stop this landlord doing this once and for all (he tried it with Council tax a long time ago, now that times are hard he is trying it on again)....... I think I need to report him to some watch dog company .. help needed.....
thanks in advance
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