Welcome to Expert Answers. <br /> <br />www.expertanswers.co.uk <br /> <br />We often get asked the following questions, “What can I do if Bailiffs come knocking at my door?” “Can bailiffs force entry?” “What can bailiffs take?” <br /> <br />The simple answer is, no they cannot force entry. <br /> <br />Do not let them in! if you have to you can even shut the door in their face. Whatever you do, do not let the Bailiffs in. <br /> <br />They may say they've got the power to enter the property, they haven't. <br /> <br />Close the door in their face. If they start to become a nuisance and knock again or call around twenty times in the day, call the Police because they are harassing you. <br /> <br />Now Bailiffs can't harass you, Bailiffs can't simply walk into the property unless you invite them in. So whatever you do if Bailiffs come knocking on your door don’t say, <br /> “Oh you'd better come in.” <br /> Now what you say is, “ <br />“You'd better get lost” <br /> <br />And close the door in their face. You can be as ignorant to them as you like. I'm not talking about being abusive but I'm saying literally,” Go away “or close the door. <br /> <br /> If you invite them in they are then entitled to break in on future occasions. Don't invite them in. If you invite them in and you have locked cupboards and locked doors in the house, they can break those open to see the contents. <br /> <br />Don't invite them in. <br /> <br />People have invited them in the past and then we get asked <br /> <br />“What can Bailiffs take?” <br /> <br />Bailiffs can't take anything that's essential to life. <br /> <br />Now even the television's deemed to be essential to life now, but if you've got a 120" inch flat screen LED state of the art television, They could take that. <br /> <br />However, if it's just a normal, plain, small desktop box, they can't. <br /> <br />They can't take your clothes they can't take the fridge or the cooker or the chairs, the furniture, stuff that you need to sit on. <br /> <br />What they can take are luxury goods, they can't take tools of the trade, and they can't take your work's van unless it is on finance, In which case they can take it back if the Finance Company wants it. <br /> <br />If you've got Bailiffs knocking on your door, you might want to take some legal advice. <br /> <br />Expert Answers Legal Advice in a click.
