How to get forwarding address of old tenants

Counting_Pennies_2

I wonder if you can help.


We had some particularly awful tenants who have recently ended their tenancy and we are currently going through the deposit collection process through the official scheme.


What I could do with is their forwarding address as they have loads of unpaid bills and the utility companies need their forwarding address.


Can anyone suggest ways to be able to find out their address.


We have asked and received no reply!

Cautious_Optimist

Eventually they may show up on 192.com

If they are renting a new place, will they not need a reference from you for their new LL?

What about employers or letting agent?
Friends of theirs?
How well do you know these tenants?
Facebook?

But if it's just for utility companies, is that your problem?
Why not just RTS?
Surely the debt belongs to the tenant, not the LL?

theartfullodger

Return all mail with "return to sender, not at this address".

Their bills are not your problem:

If however you wish to find them (say they owe you money,,,) after a few months try someone like findermonkey

Who chose these

particularly awful tenants

??

G_M

Have you approached the people who provided their references?

What was their previous address? Family?

Do you know if they moved locally, or to another part of the country?

billybear1

theartfullodger wrote: »

Return all mail with "return to sender, not at this address".

We have been doing this for our previous owners mail for the past 2 years. They still arrive on our doorstep. If anyone has any other solutions to stop this though, I am all ears.

Counting_Pennies_2

G_M wrote: »

Have you approached the people who provided their references?

What was their previous address? Family?

Do you know if they moved locally, or to another part of the country?

Thanks I hadn't thought about their place of work. If I sent them there they would have to be opened!


Tenant said they were moving away from home so we didn't have a previous landlord to get a reference from.


Interestingly we haven't been asked for a landlord reference either, so I would suggest he is a bad tenant and uses his parents as an excuse.


For his credit reference we have got his parents address, so will choose between that and the place of work.


Many thanks

billybear1

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

For his credit reference we have got his parents address, so will choose between that and the place of work.


Many thanks

I would go parents, if my parents got one of my bills... I would be paying it quickly!

kinger101

billybear1 wrote: »

We have been doing this for our previous owners mail for the past 2 years. They still arrive on our doorstep. If anyone has any other solutions to stop this though, I am all ears.

If "return to sender" is not working, you can always open the letter to get a phone number of someone to complain to. It is legal to open someone else's mail if you have a reasonable excuse. Alternatively, just tear them up and bin them.

AdrianC

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

we have got his parents address

We have a winner. Go with that - it'll probably be harder for them to ignore than being sent to work. If he's that poor a tenant, that attitude is almost certainly reflected through to other areas of his life, so he's probably in fairly casual short-term employment anyway.

anselld

Counting_Pennies wrote: »

we are currently going through the deposit collection process

Don't you mean the deposit return process? (less any legitimate damages of course)

Counting_Pennies_2

anselld wrote: »

Don't you mean the deposit return process? (less any legitimate damages of course)

No deposit collection. He created so much damage!!