Vendor is insistent on visiting after completion

TBagpuss

I do sympathies with you and I think the answer is to be firm.

I had a similar issue with the previous owner of my current home, regarding post. When I rocked up with my removal van he was there and handed over the keys (which was fine, although technically not yet due as we hadn't completed!)  and said "I'll pop back every so often for my post."

I told him that didn't work for me, that if he left me his new address I didn't mind forwarding on anything the redirect missed but that I wasn't in a position to hold his mail for him.

He didn't want to give me a forwarding address. At the end of the first couple of weeks I put everything which had arrived for him in a large envelope and dropped it off at the Estate Agents with a note to say that as I didn't have a forwarding address for him, anything further which arrived would be binned or marked RTS, and that's exactly what I did.

He did turn up once more and I told him the same thing and that no, I didn't have any post for him. After that he stopped coming. 

That was 7 years ago. I still get occasional mail for him and his sons. About a year after moving in I discovered, by opening a letter in error,  that his son was using my address for his car insurance ( that one, I did call the insurance company to let them know) 

One of the sons did show up on the doorstep once -looking for his drivers licence - apparently he'd got some points and presumably hadn't updated his address with the court or DVLA.  I told him that I didn't recall seeing it (which was true) but that anything that came just got RTS.

So my advice would be to be firm with him,. tell him you can't deal with any further post, and that anything more which comes will just be returned to sender, and that he needs to sort out proper redirection, and make sure people have his new address. 

If he keeps showing up you might ultimately be able to raise it as harassment - start with a formal letter to him stating that if he contacts you or comes to the house you will regard it as harassments, then log it with the police, showing them a copy of the letter, if he does. But hopefully you won't need to go that far - at the moment, he has no reason to stop because you are dealing with things a way that suits him. Stop responding, block his number, don't answer the door to him, and mark any post 'not at this address' and put it back in the post box. The post office will return it to the sender . f it's junk they will eventually give up, if it is anything he wants, then he's more likely to take steps to update them if he stops getting his post. 

And it's unlikely to affect your credit but you can always check your records if you're worried.

despite the former home owner, my records are fine with no trace of any of them! (and I am 99% they don't have good credit!) 

Greymug

Don't understand all these folks suggesting to cross the address and put the mail back in the letterbox and saying it's the easiest thing to do.

It isn't. You need to pick a pen, write the necessary message, and go to the nearest mail box.

It's way less effort to just chuck the mail in the bin and tell the vendor to !!!!!! off.

Pok3mon

I have had this at my house now, We bought it as a wreck it was a family home since 1905, It belonged to one of the 4 siblings he died and we bought it from the other 3 in probate. Pain in the backside vendors moving all the stuff in a hatchback, even took the chopped logs!! That's another story.

5 years later and 3 random people was walking around my back garden (they had to open a gate to do this) and looking through windows and trying doors on the outbuildings I got a very distressing phone call from my daughter telling me what was going on. 

I told her to call out from upstirs ask them to leave they then stated openly "It's ok it used to be our family home just having a look what you have done to the place." These people are in their 50's so not old.

My dogs was going mad so she threatened to let them out. They soon left.

Some people have no boundaries.

Section62

Greymug said:

Don't understand all these folks suggesting to cross the address and put the mail back in the letterbox and saying it's the easiest thing to do.

Because, short-term, it is also the decent (but optional) thing to do?

Greymug said:

It's way less effort to just chuck the mail in the bin and tell the vendor to !!!!!! off.

Reading between the lines, the vendor is a well-liked member of a close community, where popping in for a chat is a 'norm'.

So by all means tell the vendor to "!!!!!! off", but don't act all surprised if your new neighbours turn frosty towards you, or even tell you to do likewise.

That doesn't mean the OP should accept the situation.  But assuming they want to fit in with the neighbours and share in the same neighbourly spirit, a more diplomatic approach would be better (but optional).

honeyend

We have had problems with our last owner, unpaid debts, someone even wanted us to pay their debt, and at the start I did the RTS, but in most cases it didn't work, so I ended up opening them and ringing the company, who for GDRP can not discuss it but at least to can say they are not at this address. The final straw was a new phone contract, nearly four years after they had left.

  We have also had someone try to get a mortgage on an empty house we had not sold, the terrible thing was it was someone we knew and only found out when the bank who had the mortgage phoned us.

  We lived in our last house twenty two years, I sometimes visit the next door neighbours, but I do not even park outside the house, it's theirs now

Josiea

Section62 said:

Greymug said:

Don't understand all these folks suggesting to cross the address and put the mail back in the letterbox and saying it's the easiest thing to do.

Because, short-term, it is also the decent (but optional) thing to do?

Greymug said:

It's way less effort to just chuck the mail in the bin and tell the vendor to !!!!!! off.

Reading between the lines, the vendor is a well-liked member of a close community, where popping in for a chat is a 'norm'.

So by all means tell the vendor to "!!!!!! off", but don't act all surprised if your new neighbours turn frosty towards you, or even tell you to do likewise.

That doesn't mean the OP should accept the situation.  But assuming they want to fit in with the neighbours and share in the same neighbourly spirit, a more diplomatic approach would be better (but optional).

New neighbours have mentioned his strange behaviour too…

evebeme

Binning the mail or opening it and phoning the senders won't work. That sounds like you are the person and trying  to evade  responsibity. Take the mail to the po and have them do it

badmemory

If the mail you are RTS is from debt collectors then RTS will not work because it seems to be a "thing" that people who can't pay their debts do.  I even had trouble with an company that was sending my mother those overpriced sales leaflets.  I'd had her mail forwarded to me after she went into a care home.  I'd contacted a few to say don't bother as she can't buy from you any longer, but one actually wanted me to send them a copy of the power of attorney before they would stop.  I said carry on sending them & wasting your postage.  I'll put them in the bin, totally legally as I did have the POA.  But doing the RTS from the previous owner of my property did not work, I even had debt collector calling.  That was when I stopped looking at the address on the letters & opening them as they were through my door.  The only thing that stopped them was ringing them.

user1977

evebeme said:

Take the mail to the po and have them do it

Have the Post Office do what? If you mean the Royal Mail, you just mark the envelope accordingly and put it in a post box, you don't need to talk to anybody or "have them" do anything while you're there.

Irishpearce26

evebeme said:

Binning the mail or opening it and phoning the senders won't work. That sounds like you are the person and trying  to evade  responsibity. Take the mail to the po and have them do it

That wont make a difference, they will just return the mail to sender but it wont change the address so the letters will still come. Binning them is less effort than going to a post office all the time.