Landlords post

Brie

I suggest that you ask very politely ask for the documents outlining what he has had to pay so that you can provide those to your solicitor should it go to court.  

dimbo61

I am willing to bet £20 that the Landlord did not have an Inventory carried out ?
No photos or video of the condition of the property before you took on the tenancy as you had builders in for 3 weeks after you moved in !
However I am also a Landlord and have owned a property for 5+ years when a Ground Rent demand dropped through the letterbox.
I was so glad when my tenants contacted me to tell me a letter had arrived.
We bought the Ground Rent out but If we had missed this it could have cost us thousands of pounds in legal fees and made our tenants HOMELESS.
They have been in ( there home ) for over 3 years.
The LL should have given you his contact details  but not passing on a Council Tax demand will not endear yourself with your Landlord.
Maybe a WhatsApp message or Text

canaldumidi

* Post. I've never seen a tenancy agreement with a 'postal agreement', and even if there is one saying, for example, you must forward his mail it is an unenforceable clause. His post is his responsibility. He should be telling his correspondants where he is and/or using Royal Mail forwarding service. You are not a post office so ignore him and certainly don't pay.

* Eviction. Are you in a fixed term contract? When does the FT end? You cannot be evicted via a S21 during the fixed term.

In theory the LL could use S8 (G12) "Any obligation of the tenancy (other than one related to the payment of rent) has been broken or not performed." but I can guarantee that no judge would evict for this situation.

* does your tenancy agreement have an address in Eng/Wales on it for him 'for serving notices'? If not, you do not have to pay rent! Landlord and Tenant Act 1987

* repairs. LL's responsibility to pay.
Post 2: Repairing Obligations:

TripleH

Op, is your deposit protected by a scheme?

Have you seen a check-in report and sign it off when you moved in?

Our ex-landlord's mail direct ended and post began turning up for their son. We texted them and they came and collected their post. More turned up after, we piled it up for them to collect as we were in the stage of moving on.

If anything important arrived, they knew it was coming and could have asked us to keep an eye out or to text them  if more post dud, but they didn't.

Titus_Wadd

Sammiereschwamm92 said:

They are telling me citizens advice are saying they need to get us to argee to pay or go to small claims court. For £150? 
But citizens advice have told me 4 time legally I have nothing to pay as the bill is not even anything to do with us. 

The Citizens Advice people haven't told the landlord something completely different based on the same facts.  The landlord sounds comfortable bending the truth and probably hasn't even contacted the CAB!  He's trying it on. 

It also sounds as though he's taking advantage of you in other ways, or at the very least not performing his role as landlord to the letter of the law.

You could contact the charity shelter.org.uk for advice or to assess other aspects of your tenancy which might be faulty (but not your fault).  Definitely don't spend any more of your own money on your home.

MEM62

Sammiereschwamm92 said:

Citizens advice telling them we have to pay? 

I doubt that very much.  I would robustly tell your landlord where to stick the idea that you are paying anything.  

brianposter

From what I read it is not worthwhile falling out with the (apparently ignorant) landlord over this. I would be inclined to say that you have taken advice and that the relevant clause is unsatisfactory in that it does not make clear that some correspondence may be urgent. In consequence you will not be paying but will, of course, attempt to forward future correspondence as if it were urgent.

Also indicate that the timing of the letters seems to indicate some error in delivery.

elsien

If the landlord wants his post, there’s a very helpful redirection service provided by Royal Mail.
Thats what everyone who moves house signs up to if they want to make sure they keep getting their post.
If he’s chosen not to pay to do that then it’s his problem not yours. 

brianposter

elsien said:

If the landlord wants his post, there’s a very helpful redirection service provided by Royal Mail.
Thats what everyone who moves house signs up to if they want to make sure they keep getting their post.
If he’s chosen not to pay to do that then it’s his problem not yours. 

There are a variety of different reasons that may make Royal Mail forwarding unsuitable. That is why Royal Mail forwards letters that are simply re-addressed.