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    • no i meant the email from parcel2go which email address did they send it from and who signed it off (whos name is at the bottom)
    • I understand confusion with this thread.  I tried to keep threads separate because there have been so many angles.    But a team member merged them all.  This is why it's hard to keep track. This forum exists to help little people fight injustice - however big or small.  Im here to try get a decent resolution. Not to give in to the ' big boys'. My "matter' became complicated 'matters' simply because a lender refused to sell a property. What can I say?  I'll try in a nutshell to give an overview: There's a long lease property. I originally bought it short lease with a s.146 on it from original freeholder.  I had no concerns. So lender should have been able to sell a well-maintained lovely long lease property.  The property was great. The issue is not the property.  Economy, sdlt increases, elections, brexit, covid, interest hikes etc didn't help.  The issue is simple - the lender wanted to keep it.    Before repo I offered to clear my loan.  I was a bit short and lender refused.  They said (recorded) they thought the property was worth much more and they were happy to keep accruing interest (in their benefit) until it reached a point where they felt they could repo and still easily quickly sell to get their £s back.  This was a mistake.  The market was (and is) tough.   2y later the lender ceo bid the same sum to buy the property for himself. He'd rejected higher offers in the intervening period whilst accruing interest. I had the property under offer to a fantastic niche buyer but lender rushed to repo and buyer got spooked and walked.  It had taken a long time to find such a lucrative buyer.  A sale which would have resulted in £s and another asset for me. Post repo lender had 1 offer immediately.  But dragged out the process for >1y - allegedly trying to get other offers. But disclosure shows there was only one valid buyer. Lender appointed receiver (after 4 months) - simply to try acquire the freehold.  He used his powers as receiver to use me, as leaseholder, to serve notice on freeholders.  Legally that failed. Meanwhile lender failed to secure property - and squatters got in (3 times).  And they failed to maintain it.  So freeholders served a dilapidations notice (external) - on me as leaseholder (cc-ed to lender).   (That's how it works legally) I don't own the freehold.  But I am a trustee and have to do right by the freeholders.  This is where matters got/ get complicated.  And probably lose most caggers.   Lawyers got involved for the freeholders to firstly void the receiver enfranchisement notice. Secondly, to serve the dilapidations notice.  The lack of maintenance was in breach of lease and had to be served to protect fh asset. The lender did no repairs. They said a buyer would undertake them. Which was probably correct. If they had sold. After 1y lender finally agreed to sell to the 1st offeror and contracts went with lawyers.  Within 1 month lender reneged.  Lender tried to suggest buyer walked. Evidence shows he/ his lawyers continued trying to exchange (cash) for 4 months.  Evidence shows lender and receiver strategy had been to renege and for ceo to take control.   I still think that's their plan. Lender then stupidly chose to pretty much bulldoze the property.  Other stuff was going on in the background. After repo I was in touch by phone and email and lender knew post got to me.   Despite this, after about 10 months (before and then during covid), they deliberately sent SDs and eventually a B petition to an incorrect address and an obscure small court.  They never served me properly.  (In hindsight I understand they hoped to get a backdoor B - so they could keep the property that way.)  Eventually the random court told them to email me by way of service.  At this point their ruse to make me B failed.  I got a lawyer (friend paid). The B petition was struck out. They’d failed to include the property as an asset. They were in breach of insolvency rules. Simultaneously the receiver again appointed lawyers to act on my behalf as leaseholder. This time to serve notice on the freeholders for a lease extension.  He had hoped to try and vary the strict lease. Evidence shows the already long length of lease wasn't an issue.  The lender obviously hoped to get round their lack of permission to do works (which they were already doing) by hoping to remove the strict clauses that prevent leaseholder doing alterations.   The extension created a new legal angle for me to deal with.  I had to act as trustee for freeholders against me as leaseholder/ the receiver.  Inconsistencies and incompetence by receiver lawyers dragged this out 3y.  It still isn't properly resolved.  Meanwhile - going back to the the works the lender undertook. The works were consciously in breach of lease.  The lender hadn't remedied the breaches listed in the dilapidations notice.  They destroyed the property.  The trustees compiled all evidence.  The freeholders lawyers then served a forfeiture notice. This notice started a different legal battle. I was acting for the freeholders against what the lender had done on my behalf as leaseholder.  This legal battle took 3y to resolve. The simple exit would have been for lender to sell. A simple agreement to remedy the breaches and recompense the freeholders in compensation - and there's have been clean title to sell.  That option was proposed to them.   This happened by way of mediation for all parties 2y ago.  A resolution option was put forward and in principle agreed.  But immediately after the lender lawyers failed to engage.  A hard lesson to learn - mediation cannot be referred to in court. It's considered w/o prejudice. The steps they took have made no difference to their ability to sell the property.  Almost 3y since they finished works they still haven't sold. ** ** I followed up some leads myself.  A qualified cash buyer offered me a substantial sum.  The lender and receiver both refused it.   I found another offer in disclosure.  6 months later someone had apparently offered a substantial sum via an agent.  The receiver again rejected it.  The problem of course was that the agent had inflated the market price to get the business. But no-one was or is ever going to offer their list price.  Yet the receiver wanted/wants to hold out for the list price.  Which means 1y later not only has it not sold - disclosure shows few viewings and zero interest.  It's transparently over-priced.  And tarnished. For those asking why I don't give up - I couldn't/ can't.  Firstly I have fiduciary duties as a trustee. Secondly, legal advice indicates I (as leaseholder) could succeed with a large compensation claim v the lender.  Also - I started a claim v my old lawyer and the firm immediately reimbursed some £s. That was encouraging.  And a sign to continue.  So I'm going for compensation.  I had finance in place (via friend) to do a deal and take the property back off the lender - and that lawyer messed up bad.   He should have done a deal.  Instead further years have been wasted.   Maybe I only get back my lost savings - but that will be a result.   If I can add some kind of complaint/ claim v the receiver's conscious impropriety I will do so.   I have been left with nothing - so fighting for something is worth it. The lender wants to talk re a form of settlement.  Similar to my proposal 2y ago.  I have a pretty clear idea of what that means to me.  This is exactly why I do not give up.  And why I continue to ask for snippets of advice/ pointers on cag.  
    • It was all my own work based on my previous emails to P2G which Bank has seen.
    • I was referring to #415 where you wrote "I was forced to try to sell - and couldn't." . And nearer the start in #79 .. "I couldn't sell.  I had an incredibly valuable asset. Huge equity.  But the interest accrued / the property market suffered and I couldn't find a buyer even at a level just to clear the debt." In #194 you said you'd tried to sell for four years.  The reason for these points is that a lot of the claims against for example your surveyor, solicitor, broker, the lender and now the receiver are mainly founded in a belief that they should have been able to do something but did not. Things that might seem self evident to you but not necessarily to others. Pressing these claims may well need a bit more hard evidence, rather than an appeal to common sense. Can you show evidence of similar properties, with similar freehold issues, selling readily? And solid reasons why the lender should have been able to sell when you couldn't.
    • You can use a family's address.   The only caveat is for the final hearing you'd need to be there in person   HOWEVER i'd expect them to pay if its only £200 because costs of attending will be higher than that
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Hi guys. Just in need of some advise.. Took out a £100 loan with minicredit couple months ago, due to change in circumstances I was unable to pay it back. They are not accepting any offers from Clark Richards ( the debt management company in charge of my accounts ) Had a letter through to day from them, saying total balance due £801.

 

I need serious answers now guys, Is it possible to take this evil company to court? There is no chance I am paying back £700 extra!

 

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Karl

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They could try to take you to court, but a simple defense against their claim would see them running off pretty damn fast.

 

Can you give more details? such as original loan amount plus interest, date taken out, date defaulted etc.

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Just checked my account on their website

 

Loan was due to be paid back 30/03/2012

 

Original loan amount £100

 

Current balance £831.00

 

Status : Debt Collection

 

I believe the Original amount plus one months interest would have been £129 give or take a £1.

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I would be inclined to email or write and ask them for a complete breakdown of the debt. Minicredit have a very bad habit of inventing reasons to add charges to an account and also adding charges that the OFT say a very big NO to.

 

When did you take the loan out? Because if they tried to take you to court, a judge would be very interested in their reasons to how the debt has risen 700% in just a few months.

Any advice i give is my own and is based solely on personal experience. If in any doubt about a situation , please contact a certified legal representative or debt counsellor..

 

 

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Right, I have had a think.. is it worth me phoning minicredit directly to arrange a payment plan, is there anyway I can knock off some of that £830? Still awaiting email response from breakdown of charges.

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Do not phone them unless you can record the call, they will tell porkies.

 

You do not owe £830, the contract with them has ended and you owe what the contract says, your original loan amount and interest.

 

If they tried court they would be in trouble.

 

Let the OFT know that you are having problems with them, they are investigating this murky market, also contact MP Stella Creasey and let her know what problems you are having with lack of communication from them.

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Thank you for the reply,

 

I sent another email, as they did not respond before

 

Dear MiniCredit

 

I would like to arrange a settlement plan, could you please forward me a full breakdown of the charges on my account. I look forward to a response from you via e-mail as i do not wish to discuss this matter over the phone.

 

Kind Regards

Karl

 

 

What will happen when It's passed onto a 3rd party debt collector?

 

Thank you so much for you help

 

Karl

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The general advice on here is to never speak to a PDL on the phone but to always have all communication in writing. Minicredit will not accept any kind of payment plan schedule but you can make partial payments or try to come to an agreed settlement figure. I did call them earlier this week to discuss how I wanted my account to be passed on to a DCA because I no longer wanted to deal with them. I do think phoning them sped up this process because otherwise they wouldn't have dealt with it and they then did confirm immediately afterwards by email that my account will be passed on.

 

When it gets passed on to a DCA, it will either go to a company called OPOS or Mackenzie Hall. I'm hoping mine will go to OPOS because they have already agreed to support me in my suggested repayment plan. Just state what you can afford to pay each month and don't negotiate. People on benefits can pay just £1 per month if they wish because it is classed as low priority debt and the courts would support this. If extra extortionate charges have been added on then you can dispute them with the DCA who might wipe them so that you only pay back the original loan & interest.

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Why are you paying the DMP when there are free services, you are throwing money away here that could be used against your creditors - and as you have found out the DMP doesn't deal with all of your creditors either!

 

This is from Clark Richards terms and conditions.....

 

5 How we will be paid

5.1 Unless we agree otherwise with you we will take from each monthly payment under the debt management programme a fee equal to 14.9% of the periodic payment under the debt management programme. Subject to a minimum of £30 and a maximum of £90. If in accordance with our records you have conducted your debt management programme satisfactorily we may, at our discretion, waiver the last 6 months management fee.

5.2 Because most of our work will be done at the start of the Period, we will charge an initial fee based on your programme payment. The initial fee will not exceed the equivalent of 2 months’ payments to your Debt Management Programme. The fee will be collected as follows; 100% of the first payment and 100% of the second payment. NO further administration charges will be applied to the initial fee.

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Wrong approach, try this one

 

Dear Minitwits

 

I am experiencing financial hardship and wish to repay the original loan and interest at a rate of x amount over x period.

 

I will not be able to fill in an accurate I&E form as my finances are very unstable. I cannot be telephoned as I cannot afford a phone and I will only be contactable by email.

 

I will need your bank details in order to make the payments to you as I do not have an account with debit card facilities.

 

 

Keep it short and let them know that YOU are now in charge.

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Ok thank you very much for that :-)

 

Any idea which e-mail address for them would get me through faster?

 

tried sending it to them via their website, then got a reply in my hotmail inbox saying this

 

Dear Karl ******

 

Please forward Your request to claims at minicredit.co.uk

 

 

Kind regards

MiniCredit

Client Support Team

 

I have sent it to that claims address, just a waiting game now?

 

Cheers :)

Karl

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Hi there. Standard practice is to supply a comprehensive budget where possible, this will reinforce the fact that the offer you're making would be fair and reasonable given the circumstances. For those in receipt of state benefits it's usually going to be a token offer. Have you other debts?

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its best not to worry about it too much, the worst they can do is take you to court and even then you just fill in the papers supplying your income/expenditure and your suggested repayment and the judge will just agree that and as long as you then pay that amount each month its fine. i have about 8 or 9 PDL's outstanding over the last 6 months or so and only 2 have gone to court, both repayments were about the £10 a month mark on a balance of around £700, so really its in your favour if it goes to court as then they cannot argue anymore. the others keep sending letters and phoning but as none of them reply to my oringal emails asking for a payment plan i have just been ignoring them!!

 

they do like to make you feel like you have committed a massive crime but its only cos they want their money back, i guess we would be the same if it was the other way around.

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Manontheweb can I ask did you defend the 2 pdls who went to court, who were they and how much were they claiming?

 

We certainly haven't seen you on this site before so I am querying this because it could be useful information for us.

 

Did you just get judgement by default on them?

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It's gone up to £856 for MiniCredit now. They still haven't replied to my emails. What do I do now?.. how can they add charges when they don't reply??

 

Would the court make you pay the whole amount of just original loan & interest?

 

Thank you

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Why ar eyou thinking about court? Thats a LONG way off. IF it even happens.

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Still had no reply from MiniCredit. Am I ok to just carry on leaving this? Charges being added daily but they do not respond to their online contact form or email address?

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Send them one message a week with your repayment plan. Every time they decline it, send them the same offer right back to them. If they dont reply and they keep escalating the debt, then you must get trading standards and especially the OFT involved.

 

Make sure you keep a full and complete paper trail so IF they ever take you to court, you can easily show a judge their attitude.

Any advice i give is my own and is based solely on personal experience. If in any doubt about a situation , please contact a certified legal representative or debt counsellor..

 

 

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