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Forwarding Landlord Mail
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Alice_M77 said:I have rented my house for 4 years, my landlord has lived in America for 3 of the 4 years and for 3 years I've forwarded their mail but recently, they sent an email wanting me to forward it quicker as they're expecting important mail. After mentioning the forwarding to friends, they said it shouldn't be my responsibility as a tenant to pay to send my landlords mail to America. I looked it up and it has me wondering why hasn't my landlord just set up a RM Redirection service? How do I go about mentioning this without souring the Tenant-Landlord relationship?
We'd love to help you out, please provide a UK based agent for us to forward your mail to.
Regards
Ms Alice Tenant
Then simply cross out the landlord's address, write "Forward to <uk address>" and then stick in a postbox or in the outgoing mail at work. That way, there's no charge, and the only cost is your time.
If you want to make the landlord's life a misery (not recommended) cross out the landlords address and write "return to sender".
In my experience (idiot neighbour who did that to correctly addressed mail pushed through the wrong letterbox), the next step is "unable to login to online banking because he's gone away without a proper forwarding address" and having to visit the bank in person to get the mess sorted out.
IMHO the landlord is the one gaming the system, and I wouldn't want to be his/her unpaid lackey.
PochiSoldi
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missile said:Presumably you agreed to this when you arranged the tenancy?
I would e mail back and say you are unhappy to continue doing this and ask him to make other arrangements.0 -
Grumpy_chap said:Does the OP deal directly with the LL, or is there a UK-based LA?
If so, just send everything to the LA to deal with.0 -
colsten said:lr1277 said:As an aside, unless your landlord has made arrangements with HMRC, you should be paying the tax on the rental income to HMRC. That means deducting the tax due from your rental payment and sending it to HMRC. I am not sure how you do this, what reference numbers you use or calculating the amount of tax0
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pochisoldi said:Alice_M77 said:I have rented my house for 4 years, my landlord has lived in America for 3 of the 4 years and for 3 years I've forwarded their mail but recently, they sent an email wanting me to forward it quicker as they're expecting important mail. After mentioning the forwarding to friends, they said it shouldn't be my responsibility as a tenant to pay to send my landlords mail to America. I looked it up and it has me wondering why hasn't my landlord just set up a RM Redirection service? How do I go about mentioning this without souring the Tenant-Landlord relationship?
We'd love to help you out, please provide a UK based agent for us to forward your mail to.
Regards
Ms Alice Tenant
Then simply cross out the landlord's address, write "Forward to <uk address>" and then stick in a postbox or in the outgoing mail at work. That way, there's no charge, and the only cost is your time.
If you want to make the landlord's life a misery (not recommended) cross out the landlords address and write "return to sender".
In my experience (idiot neighbour who did that to correctly addressed mail pushed through the wrong letterbox), the next step is "unable to login to online banking because he's gone away without a proper forwarding address" and having to visit the bank in person to get the mess sorted out.
IMHO the landlord is the one gaming the system, and I wouldn't want to be his/her unpaid lackey.
PochiSoldi0 -
lr1277 said:You have posted your question in the 'Budgeting and Bank Accounts' board. You may get better answers in the 'House Buying, Renting & Selling' board, if you repost your question on that board.As an aside, unless your landlord has made arrangements with HMRC, you should be paying the tax on the rental income to HMRC. That means deducting the tax due from your rental payment and sending it to HMRC. I am not sure how you do this, what reference numbers you use or calculating the amount of tax.Perhaps whilst asking about postal arrangements, you could ask if you need to pay the tax on your landlord's behalf?
As far as i am aware, they do pay the tax to HMRC.0 -
Alice_M77 said:Grumpy_chap said:Does the OP deal directly with the LL, or is there a UK-based LA?
If so, just send everything to the LA to deal with.
This is not your responsibility and nor should you be out of pocket.1 -
Certainly not your responsibility.
The landlord is having a right laugh I bet.
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Simply explain to the landlord that you are finding the forwarding expensive and would he please make arrangements to refund you.Technically it is not your responsibility, but landlords and tenants who do not forward mail are a pain in the a..e.1
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Alice_M77 said:missile said:Presumably you agreed to this when you arranged the tenancy?
I would e mail back and say you are unhappy to continue doing this and ask him to make other arrangements.
I would e mail LL and tell them you can no longer afford to forward mail by RM, ask him make alternate arrangements. You will keep his mail safe for him to arrange collection.
You could suggest he might like to arrange RM collect mail from your address. See here > Parcel Collect: Book A Parcel Collection | Royal Mail Group Ltd"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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