Dodgy tennant has registered a business at my address- AIBU to report her?

[Rapunzel88]

My husband and I have a small house which we rent out. Three tennants have moved out today, leaving the place in a terrible mess, but that's another story.... Whilst we were cleaning up l found a piece of mail with a company name and our address. Googled the company and the director is someone we've never heard of (ie not one of the three names on the tenancy agreement). It's in the tenancy agreement that they should not have been running a business from our property. Is this something I should be worried about? Should I report this person? Who should I report her to? Any advice gratefully received.

But if one of the tenants was the company secretary, then it is not an unauthorised address. An unauthorised address is where there is an attempt to be fradulent.

YANBU report it.

jenny are you saying you can use any address as Company Secretary?

That’s really shit. I live in a big block of flats and one of the neighbours had quite a bit of hassle because someone randomly used her address. Why is that even allowed? It’s batshit. The person wasn’t on the tenancy agreement.

It was probably a girlfriend of the tenant @RosaWaiting . Returning post 'to sender' will suffice.

Thank you all so much for your help and advice. You lot are better than the Citizens Advice Bureau! RosaWaiting that's a really useful link. I will report this today- if there's nothing dodgy going on, then no harm done.

daffydowndilys yes we will be claiming from the deposit, although we think that the damage might exceed the deposit amount. We might proceed to small claims court if it's substantially more.

OP I’ll be really interested to hear what they say

If you can use other people’s addresses willy nilly without checks, that’s awful.

I had this with the previous owner of my property. They ran a business from home then refused to change the business address when they moved. I had bailiffs etc to the door. Anyway, I rang companies house and spoke to the dispute team. They could not have been more helpful. They sent me a form to demonstrate that the company shouldn’t be registered to the property (I just sent the a copy of the land registry doc from completion). They then forced the address change for me. It went onto the company record and to the directors address (ironically mine which I had to return to sender which co house were expecting ) and the owners had 21 days to change voluntarily or companies house would forcibly change to a service address at Co House then start proceedings to wind the company up as the company was uncontactable.

Honestly, the dispute team were absolutely brilliant and sorted it all out for me. They also officially notified the court team that work in Northampton doing CCJ and enforcement proceedings which stopped the bailiffs too. Everyone was incredibly helpful and it was resolved with very little input from me other than the initial call and form completion.

Ratonastick what a nightmare! Thanks so much for sharing your story- I've just done exactly what you did and filled out the forms to remove my address from the register. Also discovered another company registered at my address today by a random stranger, so will have to repeat the process tomorrow! So glad these effing tenants have gone....

@RosaWaiting I am saying that one of the ex tenants may be the company secretary. This is the person who deals with the admin so having their home as the registered address is perfectly acceptable.

Good work Jenny.

Everything I do seems to go wrong at the moment so I’m trying to relax and read and will just do an ordinary clean.

Wrong thread.

Does your landlord insure have legal advice cover? Maybe they can advise?