How do I trace landlord of noisy tenants?

nomealone

We have just had the neighbours from hell move onto our street. They have a dog that has done its business all over my drive and loads of kids who seem to be running wild making loads of noise.

Last night they set some rubbish on fire in their garden and now my house stinks.

I downloaded the register from the Land Registry to try and find out who the landlord is but he has cleverly registered himself at the rented property so I havent got his contact details.

Does anyone know if they have to be registered at the local auth or any way of tracing him?

I have tried speaking politely to one of the tenants but they are just, not to put to fine a point on it, !!!!! ignorant people who stand in their front garden smoking and shouting.

I work from home and I am slowly going mad............

Troubled_Joe

Go to a tracing agency. I use Focus Forensics and they charge £32 plus vat on a no trace-no fee basis.

pollythena

nomealone wrote: »

We have just had the neighbours from hell move onto our street. They have a dog that has done its business all over my drive and loads of kids who seem to be running wild making loads of noise.

Last night they set some rubbish on fire in their garden and now my house stinks.

I downloaded the register from the Land Registry to try and find out who the landlord is but he has cleverly registered himself at the rented property so I havent got his contact details.

Does anyone know if they have to be registered at the local auth or any way of tracing him?

I have tried speaking politely to one of the tenants but they are just, not to put to fine a point on it, !!!!! ignorant people who stand in their front garden smoking and shouting.

I work from home and I am slowly going mad............

I would actually go to the Environmental Health department at your local council. Keep a record of all instances and call them, especially if they are being noisy late at night.

I had problem neighbours and the council had a '24 hour' Noise Pollution team who would come out and give them warnings. They can go to the trouble of tracing the landlord themselves and the landlord is also more likely to take the threat of legal action from the council seriously rather than contact from yourself.

nomealone

Thanks. I forgot about tracing agencies - Ive used them at work before so that might be an option.

Ive left a message for the ASB officer at the council (EH told me to speak to her) so hopefully they will contact the landlord and have a word. My local auth are running a promotion on encouraging people to work from home so hopefully they will be sympathetic.

I dont want to start world war 3 but equally I cant have a situation where kids are roller skating past my office window screaming all day either.

It was quiet this morning and I hoped someone else had had a word but about an hour ago it started up again. What a mare!

EagerLearner

Go to environmental health before you pay the £32 tracing - they can talk to the police/council etc if need be and therefore they then have powers to search databases, visit the property etc. I would not get embroiled with the landlord until you have made the complaint to Env Serv as you can save yourself the work to be honest...

sooz

nomealone wrote: »

I dont want to start world war 3 but equally I cant have a situation where kids are roller skating past my office window screaming all day either.

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How old are the kids? If they can rollerskate (on the pavement alone) surely they should be in school?

poppysarah

Your local council's dog warden will come and sort the dog out. If you can get film of them doing it then they might not even bother to come out and look for themselves. If you can specify times for it happening they may get to witness it.

Noise: environmental health and PCSO

Bonfire: Env health but they only work office hours and don't seem to care here how much toxic junk is burnt but worth a try.

Diary. Dedicate the next few months of your life to logging every incident, getting log numbers off the police etc

Who's the mortgage with - did the land reg say? You can write to them saying you're having trouble locating the landlord and can they forward a letter?


And be prepared to be asked a million times if you have permission to work from home.

WTF?_2

nomealone wrote: »

We have just had the neighbours from hell move onto our street. They have a dog that has done its business all over my drive and loads of kids who seem to be running wild making loads of noise.

Last night they set some rubbish on fire in their garden and now my house stinks.

I downloaded the register from the Land Registry to try and find out who the landlord is but he has cleverly registered himself at the rented property so I havent got his contact details.

Does anyone know if they have to be registered at the local auth or any way of tracing him?

I have tried speaking politely to one of the tenants but they are just, not to put to fine a point on it, !!!!! ignorant people who stand in their front garden smoking and shouting.

I work from home and I am slowly going mad............

You said that the Landlord is registered at the address that he is renting ... it could well be that he hasn't declared the property as being a BTL either to his mortgage company (fraud) or the income to the Inland Revenue (tax evasion).

Hmmmm ... I normally don't like being a tittle-tattle :lipsrseal but it seems to me that he has irresponsibly lumped your neighbourhood with the family from hell. Should you show him some consideration in light of that fact :think:

Captain_Mainwaring_2

!!!!!!? wrote: »

You said that the Landlord is registered at the address that he is renting ... it could well be that he hasn't declared the property as being a BTL either to his mortgage company (fraud) or the income to the Inland Revenue (tax evasion).

Hmmmm ... I normally don't like being a tittle-tattle :lipsrseal but it seems to me that he has irresponsibly lumped your neighbourhood with the family from hell. Should you show him some consideration in light of that fact :think:

Or it could be that he is paying his tax and that he actually lived in that house at one point.

Send him a letter at the house address - he may well have a redirect on.
Had you considered that Landlords hate bad tennants even more than the neighbours do, nobody wants them.

Gasha

Just a thought,
Was there an agents board up prior to these people moving in?
If so contact them because they as managing agents will have contact details for him.

You could also try the Council Tax department, they may not give you a forwarding address but you could write him a letter and ask that they pass it on to him.

EagerLearner

Gasha - that's a great suggestion and could work. I had an evasive landlady and the council were offering to do exactly that for me, except unfortunately I knew the address was wrong. But it could help the OP.

CaptainMainwaring is right too - when purchased, the landlord might have lived at the property. Worth talking to the estate agents if you can find out who they are.

But probably the most immediate action you could take is call the Environmental Health dept and make a complaint, that will start the ball rolling. Also that way the tenants don't know who made the complaint, so you are not at any risk.