Landlord!

Drea

sooz wrote: »

Drea - how long have you been renting in Scotland now?
You really seem to pick a bad selection of landlords & letting agents.

Please ensure before you move again that you are fully aware of your rights as a tenant.

My landlord MUST be registered. Please repeat until it sinks in

:rotfl: Oh no, you remember me

I thought I'd done so well with this one too!

My landlord MUST be registered, my landlord MUST be registered, my landlord MUST be registered...

Drea

diable wrote: »

Tell him you are both going on holiday for two weeks ;p

Who pays for the postage for the forwarded mail?

Ah he gives us stamps.

diable

Drea wrote: »

Ah he gives us stamps.

"forget" to put them on ;p

orangeslimes

Drea wrote: »

Ah he gives us stamps.

You don't need stamps - you can just cross through address and write the new address on an envelope. It works.
(definitely for prepaid stuff like bank statements)

I think forwarding the odd piece of mail is fair enough, but this is unreasonable. What sort of post is it? Can you tell from company names on envelopes?

Also if you want to give your landlord the benefit of the doubt, I don't know how up to date the landlord registration website is - my landlord was on it when I first looked it up, but it said the managing agent was a local university (which is not the case, and hadn't been for at least a year)
but you are definitely within your rights to check with the Local Council. and doesn't sound like he is doing things by the book.

custardy

orangeslimes wrote: »

You don't need stamps - you can just cross through address and write the new address on an envelope. It works.
(definitely for prepaid stuff like bank statements)

I think forwarding the odd piece of mail is fair enough, but this is unreasonable. What sort of post is it? Can you tell from company names on envelopes?

Also if you want to give your landlord the benefit of the doubt, I don't know how up to date the landlord registration website is - my landlord was on it when I first looked it up, but it said the managing agent was a local university (which is not the case, and hadn't been for at least a year)
but you are definitely within your rights to check with the Local Council. and doesn't sound like he is doing things by the book.

thats the way,encourage people to not bother paying for redirections :T.......

BitterAndTwisted

OP if you have an AST you CAN NOT be thrown out before it expires but your landlord does have the right to decide not to renew or extend it, so it would be sensible to make plans to leave at the end of the term. Please buy a carbon monoxide alarm asap

orangeslimes

custardy wrote: »

thats the way,encourage people to not bother paying for redirections :T.......

I thought it was allowed and accepted practice?

custardy

orangeslimes wrote: »

I thought it was allowed and accepted practice?

why would it be?
who pays for that?

orangeslimes

custardy wrote: »

why would it be?
who pays for that?

I don't know - found it surprising myself, but I know people who have done it. My mum forwarded stuff to me that way and she is a law abiding person.

I assume that if it is a preprinted bank statement maybe the relevant bank pays?

custardy

orangeslimes wrote: »

I don't know - found it surprising myself, but I know people who have done it. My mum forwarded stuff to me that way and she is a law abiding person.

I assume that if it is a preprinted bank statement maybe the relevant bank pays?

how would that happen?
even more so when you have an open market where the bank most likely use TNT,DHL etc for their mail
this is then passed to RM at a far lower price
so RM often lose money on the first delivery,then it is put back in the system for another delivery
so RM just lose more money
then folks moan when the prices increase...