Find neighbour's landlord

butterfly25

Hello,


I would like to ask if anyone here has needed to contact their neighbour's landlord and how they found their contact details?


I'm not on speaking terms with my neighbour, yet there are issues that need to be fixed, e.g. garden fence that is ours according to land registry and they keep breaking. I've paid to search on Land Registry and it has the landlord's names but registered at my neighbour's address.


How should I contact them in this case? I actually managed to find both the landlords on Facebook (a couple with unique surnames) but it has been suggested by my friends that Facebook isn't appropriate for this.


Any suggestions are very welcome! Thank you.




Ps, moderators, please move if not in the right place, thanks.

Retired_Mortgage_Adviser

Is the property in an area that requires licensing? If so the landlord's details should be available on a public register on the council website.

If in Scotland, it's much easier as almost all private LLs have to be registered and the online register will tell you:
who owns the property
if anyone manages the property on their behalf
contact address for that property

Facebook/LinkedIn is 50/50 and whether you get a response/acknowledgement depends entirely on how the LL might feel about it.

martinbuckley

Send the LL a recorded delivery letter c/o your neighbour outlining what is wrong and what action you propose is taken. Your neighbour should pass it on, as I'm sure they would like a fence fixed just as much as you.

I would keep any letter only to repairs, and not write about the noise you complained to the council about 18 months' ago.

Hasbeen

butterfly25 wrote: »

Hello,


I would like to ask if anyone here has needed to contact their neighbour's landlord and how they found their contact details?


I'm not on speaking terms with my neighbour, yet there are issues that need to be fixed, e.g. garden fence that is their responsibility. I've paid to search on Land Registry and it has the landlord's names but registered at my neighbour's address.


How should I contact them in this case? I actually managed to find both the landlords on Facebook (a couple with unique surnames) but it has been suggested by my friends that Facebook isn't appropriate for this.


Any suggestions are very welcome! Thank you.




Ps, moderators, please move if not in the right place, thanks.

If the garden fence is their responsibility, own it? and in need of repair. I think they are entitled to take it down and not replace, if costs are too high?

Any experts???

unforeseen

Hasbeen wrote: »

If the garden fence is their responsibility, own it? and in need of repair. I think they are entitled to take it down and not replace, if costs are too high?

Any experts???

You are correct. They can replace it with a bit of string if they wish

PasturesNew

Call me a stalker, but I kept a list of my neighbours' agents when To Let signs went up... just so I knew.

G_M

martinbuckley wrote: »

Send the LL a recorded delivery letter c/o your neighbour outlining what is wrong and what action you propose is taken. Your neighbour should pass it on, as I'm sure they would like a fence fixed just as much as you.

I would keep any letter only to repairs, and not write about the noise you complained to the council about 18 months' ago.

Worth trying, but bear in mind
a) the tenants may not pass it on
b) the tenants might open and read it - so be diplomatic!


Of course, LL might have Royal Mail post forwarding in place in which case it should be delivered direct to the LL.

SmashedAvacado

They could remove the fence completely if they wanted to - without string or anything. Highly unlikely for there to be an enforceable obligation to maintain the fence. You can always put up a fence on your side of the boundary if you're worried about it.

gingercordial

Try a Google search for the property address. It might bring up the old Rightmove/Zoopla listing for the rental with the letting agent named. You could then try writing to "Mr & Mrs X, Landlords of YYY, c/o Letting Agent" and hope they pass it on.

FreeBear

Retired_Mortgage_Adviser wrote: »

Is the property in an area that requires licensing? If so the landlord's details should be available on a public register on the council website.

The name should appear on the Electoral Register, so worth checking there. You may need to visit the council office for the area that the LL lives in if he/she has opted out of the public register. Have a look on somewhere like 192.com and see if the name appears there. That will tell you which council you'd need to approach.
Then again, you could try looking in the telephone directory...

cattie

As some posters have mentioned, there is nothing you or anybody can do to force a landlord or neighbour to repair or replace a fence in disrepair, unless they have a dog who may wander over to your garden & possibly create a nuisance or bite somebody.

If parts the fence have fallen into your garden, you are entitled to throw or place those parts of the fence into the neighbours garden. In your shoes I'd put a decent fence up on my boundary of the garden, problem then solved & no nastiness or arguments involved.