To ask for help tracking down a landlord?

[QueenofmyPrinces]

Ashamedly posting this here for traffic because I don’t know of any other MM Forum that may be able to help.

Basically - I’m having issues with my neighbours and I want to try and track down who rents out the house - is there any way this can be done?

There’s no point asking them as I’m 100% confident they won’t hand it over as why would they?

Thanks I needed advance if anyone has any ideas.

Phone some local letting agents to see if it is on their books.
Look on zoopla to see if you can see details of the last sale.

you can apply on the land registry, it costs a couple of pounds per application online, but it will give you the legal owner and possibly another registered address.

Alternatively, do you know if it is let by agents and to contact them directly.

Google the address - may show something up.

i'm not sure what you are expecting the landlord to do. the tenants we have just evicted caused a lot of headaches and stress for the neighbours and the police were often called but as their LL i wouldnt have been able to stop this. I did eventually manage to evict them, but that was because they didnt pay rent for 7 months

When they moved in the landlord gave us his mobile and told us to call him if we had any problems.

Me and my husband went to call him a few weeks ago due to issues we’d had but neither of us could find the business card the gentleman had given to us.

We didn’t chase it up but over the last few weeks we’ve had more issues (as have other neighbours) so now we are quite keen to speak to the landlord but we don’t know how to find him.

What are these magical powers that people believe landlords have?

Depending on the nature of the issue with neighbours, call the police or council

i guess it might be worth alerting the LL to the tenants behaviour. If they are antisocial it might cause some alarm bells for the LL and if they havent checked the property they are more likely to try and do this. And if the tenant has trashed it they are less likely to renew the contract with them. Dont hold your breath though....it will take at least 7 months for them to be evicted after the contract ends.

I assumed they would speak to their tenants about their behaviour?

And are they responsible for paying for any repairs to our property if their tenants have caused it?

No, not at all. They are.

Unless they’re breaching their tenancy agreement, only council and police can deal with anti social behaviour.

If the tenants are antisocial scum they are not going to take any notice of a LL telling them off. No the LL wouldnt be responsible for repairs to your property caused by the tenant. That would be the tenant's responsibility

I really am sympathetic to problem neighbours BUT many people confuse the meaning of the word “landlord” with “parent”.

This is a 101 call if they’re causing nuisance/damage x

As someone else has said gonto land registry online- I think it costs either £3 or £7.50 and you will get the register entry which shows the owner and the address (although this can be wrong if it hasn’t been updated) you can then send a registered letter to the address (put yours on the back and it will be sent back to you if not know at the address).

reality check time. The landlord will want to know if it affects the property. It will take months to evict even if they are breaking the tenancy - eviction is not speeded up because of tenant behaviour. The landlord can do nothing except evict.

if it is loud music, barking dogs, litter, screaming kids - not evictable, but contact the council to start their equally lengthy complaints procedure.
if you wouldn't want people like this in a house you had to fix or clean, then the landlord definitely needs to know. Especially if there is a drugs issue, that will only get worse.

Start by looking for it on rightmove and seeing if there was an agent. If so contact them and insist on a message going to the landlord. If no agent or agents don't like doing any work, then try the land registry as above. But be aware not all landlords are smart enough to tell the land registry where they live. And regrettably some will be committing mortage fraud and so deliberately won't do so.

anyway, a couple of avenues. Hope that helps.

Do the neighbours on the other side have the number