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Wrongful debt

  • 03-02-2015 7:56pm
    #1
    somebaldyfela
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭


    Any advice or feedback appreciated :-)


    I moved into an apartment this time last year through a letting agent. The very next day the landlord contacted Me and said the building was unsafe and the letting agent should never have rented it to Me.(I later found out He had the building repossessed)However He had another apartment in a different building which He would rent to Me at the same price and I accepted and moved out the same day.

    About last October I received a text from an electricity supplier informing Me that I had an unpaid bill and to contact them.I did so and was told there was a bill for over €500!I explained the situation, got the letting agent to call and explain, and the landlord explained also and I thought all was sorted.

    Just last month,I've been receiving correspondence from a debt collection agency saying the bill is now over €800.Again I told them the story and they advised I send them a statement from the landlord confirming the story which I did and I also sent a copy of the lease agreement from the second apartment which has the date of when I moved in and I also got the estate agent to ring the agency while I was present to confirm everything.

    The agency keep calling from time to time asking when I will be making payment but even if it was my debt I'm in no position to pay,I'm only working part time. I have the number of a solicitor who specialises in this area but I don't think there's any point in hiring Her unless they bring Me to court.

    Anyone have experience of this situation or any helpful info? Would be greatly appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    You were only in the other place a day. Were you signed up to providers that quick? If you were did you cancel when you moved?


  • #3
    somebaldyfela
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭somebaldyfela


    ken wrote: »
    You were only in the other place a day. Were you signed up to providers that quick? If you were did you cancel when you moved?

    Yep,one day,when the landlord showed Me the second apartment I asked him about closing off the bill and He said the estate agent would take care of it as they should never have leased to Me in the first place.


  • #4
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    You can ask them not to make any further contact or you will make a complaint to Gardai.


  • #5
    somebaldyfela
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭somebaldyfela


    The Mustard wrote: »
    You can ask them not to make any further contact or you will make a complaint to Gardai.

    Wish they would just take it to court, and we could get it sorted once and for all there.


  • #6
    Lantus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,027 ✭✭✭Lantus


    sounds like months and months of electricity bills? Presumably they were not in your name and you have a lease to show that you were not even living there at the time. Did you take the meter readings when you moved in and get a supplier signed up? If you can show you were living somewhere else during the billing period in question then fine but if you moved in within the billing period being contested and you failed to provide the supplier with your meter reading and notification then it could well look like you have been trying to deliberately avoid paying at least some of the costs that were attributable to you.


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