Aside from the annoyance/inconvenience I wouldn't want her name still associated with MY address unlikely she's doing so for dodgy reasons but you never know.
I think as per pps you do need to get assertive and be clear that this is not how tenants should be treated.
It's harassment. No 2 ways about it and illegal
Check shelter website :
"The right to live in your home without disturbance
During your tenancy, you should be able to enjoy and make use of your home without interference from the landlord or anyone acting on their behalf.
This is called the 'right to quiet enjoyment'.
You have this right even you never had a written agreement, or if your fixed term assured shorthold tenancy has ended.
Examples of behaviour that could breach the right to quiet enjoyment include:
coming into your home without permission
refusing to carry out repairs or safety checks
interfering with gas, electricity or water supply
frequent visits without notice, appointment or agreement
threats or overly persistent communications about any issue"
Personally this sounds like yet another clueless accidental landlord the practice should be banned. Being a landlord should be a regulated and monitored profession as it is in many other countries would avoid crap like this.
It's stuff like "I heard you had a party last weekend"
We didn't have a party, we had our in laws round for afternoon tea in the garden. And we weren't even remotely loud. My son has selective mutism. He is not a loud child. We didn't play music or anything. And we were all indoors by 6pm.
Don't fall into the trap of justifying and defending yourselves at every turn! Barring actual antisocial or criminal behaviour it's absolutely none of her business!
The last address I was in the landlord was ok but the neighbour was an arse and kept trying to "get me into trouble" with the landlord just constant moaning! Neighbour knew landlord personally (he was her cousins ex) and he took against me from the off literally simply as I wasn't born here! Thankfully as the landlord KNEW what he was like she just said to ignore him she only would mention to me in the way of checking I was ok and I wasn't getting major grief off him. It was all fairly petty until indyref at which point he turned quite nasty and eventually I had to get police involved to get him to wind his neck in! I'm fairly thick skinned but my then primary aged dd was not and he'd banned his kids from speaking to her! Dick! He was also making nasty comments every time we crossed paths (flats shared main door) which again water off a ducks back to me but it was stressing dd out hearing her mum being constantly called a traitor, bitch, incomer, slut etc and then there was an incident where he blocked my car in once and I was urgently needing to get to the hospital as my mum was desperately ill. I'll admit I lost the head that time! Thankfully police officer that attended knew this dick of old, quickly surmised what the situation was and told him to "shift that car now!!" and then checked if I was ok to drive, turned back to him as I made my way to my car and said "u pull this rubbish again I'm lifting ye!" Things calmed down for a while at that point and it also meant other neighbours became aware of what had been going on and again they knew what he was like and I think there was like an unspoken thing they were gonna keep an eye out for me and he was aware of that.
I did feel constantly under "surveillance" because of him at that address but I wasn't in a position to move easily.
My bet is that she hasn't got her post redirected because she has got a domestic mortgage not a more expensive landlord's one.
Entirely possible
Which also makes it possible it's not properly insured and other regs are not up to scratch - more reasons why accidental landlording should be banned
@TemptedToSleepInTheShed you are completely wrong! Tenants have rights! Landlords cannot trample over them
having an agent doesn’t guarantee anything as most of them are crap.
Very true
Id also consider getting a Ring doorbell so that you can prove what she is doing... it might deter her too.
Excellent idea!
I'm not British and almost no one in my home country owns. It's completely normal there to rent. Consequently tenants have more rights.
We have appalling attitudes to renting and tenants in the Uk I agree. I've lived overseas too where renting is very much the norm and owning is for the very wealthy/privileged. Tenants are treated far better, have more rights and are more easily able to get them enforced.
The whole rental system in the Uk needs an overhaul but while we have corrupt politicians and housing market it won't change.
tell your neighbours that as they are such good friends they obviously won’t mind if you divert all Mail and direct all parcels to their house.
Ooh 2 birds one stone!