To think our landlord shouldn't use our home as their business address?

This is not true and perpetuates the notion that people must put up and shut up. No tenant wants the landlord to pop round collecting post on a regular basis nor do tenants wish to act as unpaid admin assistants.

OP, I’d continue to to return to sender. Ask the agent via email to ask the landlord to change their address.

Mmmmmm, he may find that that is called a house share and the rent is very much lower.

That’s batshit! I can’t imagine that! Mad.

My sister visited a place where the landlord wanted to be able to stay at the weekends as he worked elsewhere! Some landlords are something else!

They likely don't have a BTL mortgage for the property and therefore need to use the address 🤦🏻‍♀️

Btw OP businesses can have a registered address and another address for correspondence.

Some businesses use their accountant or a mailing company as their registered address, which is recorded on Companies House if they are a limited company or partnership. They then use their own address for correspondence.

There is absolutely no reason for the landlord to use your address at all.

The OP shouldn't bin them as they will keep coming.

Legally she's in the right returning to the sender as that's currently her address and she has the right of quiet enjoyment.

It's ashame the OP didn't open a few letters and contact the bank or whoever sent them to tell them that she currently lives at the property and not the name of the business so they have the wrong address.

That isn't defrauding anyone but giving them the correct information.

It would be very easy to change the address. LL prefers to have it believed that she and/or her business is resident at your address, for some reason.
We had a neighbour last year whose post kept arriving at our house. We took it round a few times and eventually asked him to get it redirected, but he said he 'preferred' it to come to us and he didn't mind popping in to collect it!
We said no and he redirected it immediately, goodness knows who to.
He was a local councillor, which didn't inspire much confidence...

Absolutely not OK for the LL to pop round and collect post she's chosen to have send there instead of her own address. It's your home and you're paying good money to have exclusive use of it - 'quiet enjoyment' as the law puts it.
Returning the post to sender is the right thing to do.
I hope that the agency has the guts to support you on this - they should know the law if anyone does.

This is a good idea tbh. Easiest for you OP

It wouldn’t impact OP or any other residents credit rating, these things are no longer linked

I would bin and say you didn't see them

You are entitled to the quiet enjoyment of your home.

If the landlord is going to be frequently dropping round to collect mail, this will interfere with with your enjoyment. It will also open the way for the landlord to ask to just pop in for a minute for xyz reason, without the proper notice.

This situation has the real possibility to interfere with your quiet enjoyment, and the landlord needs to find a better solution for the post.

There are people who register random addresses as business addresses at Companies House, it’s been on You & Yours or some programme like that. But if the business gets into trouble would it affect your credit rating etc?

I don’t think the LL can legally do “whatever he likes” because tenants do have rights as well. It’s their home which they pay for, that gives them rights. OP I think you ANBU. It’s a pita to have to store post, and it’s on the LL to arrange something else.

Write the letting agency address on the envelope and repost.

3 ideas:

1. LL pays for post re-direction
2. Post gets sent to letting agent
3. Get LL to buy a plastic waterproof box that gets put in easy access place. all collects without disturbing you.

Im sure she doesn’t. I just meant it wouldnt bother me as I’d just continue with my life . If the landlord finds that “popping around” doesn’t work, then Im sure they’ll come up with a different solution.

And yes OP of course its your home, but unfortunately when you rent you are at the mercy of the behaviour of your landlord and unless its illegal or breaks teh terms of your rental contract theres not much you can do. You can definitely tell teh letting agent though that this arrangement doesn’t work for you.

Yes, do this. Make this their problem - they’ll soon get on the landlord’s case.

We don’t live in a country that mandates this sort of thing through law. Even if it was, what would you do OP? Pay for a prosecution?!

I am a landlord. The deal is, I keep the place to an acceptable standard and the tenants pay me for it. It is not acceptable to give the tenants an extra job (keeping post, making themselves avail to hand it over).

This situation would annoy me - mainly because it is the sort of thing you would ask of someone staying in your place for free.

Forward to the letting agents?