Receiving DVLA documents re Landlord

vaio

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

.......Further the address on the licence is required to be the place where the driver actually resides, not some other house that he happens to own but does not live in.

nah, the licence requirement is an address at which you can be contacted, mine and one of my siblings are both still registered at my parents house where neither of us have lived since the early '80s.

Mine is basically indolence, my original licence is valid until I'm 70 and I have no desire to voluntarily get on the photo licence/ID card bandwagon, my sibling had to go photo licence as he needed to add new groups to his old licence but he has lived in Germany for the last 25 years and DVLA won't accept a German address

vaio

SeduLOUs wrote: »

........I don't particularly mind the cost of stamps or even the inconvenience, but now we are looking at fines and expired licenses which is a different matter entirely, and I don't want the next incident being a bailiff visit instead of just a letter.....

The best way of avoiding bailiff visits is to forward his mail when it arrives.

As mentioned by others, you don't need a stamp, just write his new address on the envelope and drop it in a post box

If korma exists then getting his congestion charge doubled might well come back and bite you on the bum

AdrianC

vaio wrote: »

but he has lived in Germany for the last 25 years and DVLA won't accept a German address

Any particular reason he hasn't changed to a German licence...?

vaio

nope, just doesn't see the point/need, german bureaucracy is hard work and to be avoided if possible.

nobbysn*ts

SeduLOUs wrote: »

I thought it had to be the address at which you reside, but I can't find anything anywhere to confirm either way. Regardless, he won't be able to be contacted via this address after this batch, as future letters will be returned to sender.

I don't particularly mind the cost of stamps or even the inconvenience, but now we are looking at fines and expired licenses which is a different matter entirely, and I don't want the next incident being a bailiff visit instead of just a letter.

Perhaps deliberately delaying the post is unreasonable, and not something I would normally do, but as he has failed to respond to polite requests in the past I am hoping that something that hurts his wallet might prove more successful in motivating him to get on with it.

He can't use your address, he can't be contacted there. It relies on your goodwill to pass the mail on. For the duration of your contract, it's your house. As to the charge though, if he doesn't pay and it gets to it, if there are bailiffs, with a court order, they shouldn't be able to enter. However, it's still possible they will wrongly take the attitude it's the landlords house, (as some on here have), and still consider repossessing any landlords items, eg, cooker, washing machine etc. So worth letting them no he's no longer at that address.

robatwork

vaio wrote: »

If korma exists then getting his congestion charge doubled might well come back and bite you on the bum

It exists.

Right above the lamb pasanda.

zappahey

AdrianC wrote: »

Any particular reason he hasn't changed to a German licence...?

Probably because, these days, he doesn't need to. Though he might have needed to do so 25 years ago.

specialboy

Just put any mail not addressed to you back in the post marked return to sender or not known at this address, do you get any other letter for him or is it just his vehicle details?

SeduLOUs

specialboy wrote: »

Just put any mail not addressed to you back in the post marked return to sender or not known at this address, do you get any other letter for him or is it just his vehicle details?

Vehicle and one credit card (which I have forwarded so far) plus odd bits of obvious junk mail that I bin.

sulphate

As you have acknowledged receipt of these letters I would forward them on but not bother in future. You are not required to forward mail.

The only reason he hasn't updated his details is because you have been forwarding his mail, so from his perspective he can't be bothered because he gets his mail anyway.

When we rented we forwarded our landlord's mail for 2 years then when we moved the next tenants didn't forward anything on, I wouldn't have expected them to either.