Currently renting and have been here a few months. Briefly met landlord once. Repair needs done at the property so I logged it in the appropriate way through their system.
They contacted the landlord who came back to them asking if my number could be passed to the contractor to arrange a suitable time for repair with me directly. Absolutely fine, no issue.
Man turns up today - just a random friend of the landlords that she apparently gets to come and look when a tenant requests a repair to check that it’s actually necessary. Hes in no way qualified - literally just a man she’s sent in to say “yeah, that looks broken”.
He was chatting while looking at what needed done and randomly asked me about a distant relative of my partners. I’ve never met this man, neither has DP. He then went on to comment on people he knew in common with me etc and mention people in my family that he knew. It wasn’t just a “oh, are you so and so’s daughter” etc, it was a long winded “he knows her, who knows him, who works with her” type situation. Literally they only way that he can have pieced all this together is trawling our social media’s (which are all relatively private) or through in depth discussion with our landlord (who herself would have had to go to social media to find all this out) 🤔 Most of the people mentioned don’t even have the same surname.
He also made a throwaway comment about how the landlord prefers there to be a few spare keys around “just incase” because she’s based a wee while away from the property and that “quite a few” neighbours had keys.
Should a landlord and her friend really be going to this much effort to find out about their tenant?! And shouldn’t it be the letting agent who keeps a spare key rather than half the neighbours in the street?!