A week or so ago I recieved a tenancy agreement through the post. It had no covering letter. The tenancy agreement is an original, and is for a property in Leigh. The tenancy agreement form is a Landlord Law one from quite a few years ago.
I do not recognise the names of either of the parties and I have no idea why it has been sent to me.
I assumed that someone would contact me about it at some stage but no-one has. I cannot contact the landlord as he has not put his address on the document (thereby putting himself in breach of section 48 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987).
If you are the person who has sent it, can you please get in touch with me and let me know why you sent it and what you are expecting me to do with it. When doing this PLEASE let me have your contact details.
Mysterious – If you get no response try doing a land registry search on the property – it may have contact details for landlord.
I know it’s only £4 or so to do a Land Registry search but why should Tessa incur even this modest cost without a client to bill it too?
I suppose she could scan it and e-mail it to the Council Tax section for the area where the property is situated with a brief note asking that they forward it to the landlord if they have his address. Then again, if the landlord is a client of Tessa’s (I suppose an existing client might have remarried or otherwise be using a different name) or hopes to become a client then he/she might object to Tessa having informed the council about his business [for all I know the council own the property and it has been illegally sublet]. Might be best either to:-
(a) stick it in the bin (or find somewhere to file it away) or,
(b) post copies back to the tenant and the landlord (c/o the property) saying that she isn’t sure why she has been sent it and saying she’d be grateful for a telephone call to help clarify things. [Yep, it would probably be cheaper to spend the £4 on the Land Registry search!]
I am afraid I am not going to do anything now other than keep the tenancy agreement safe.
If the person sent it gets in touch with me I will (once they have identified themselves) send it back to them.
As I have no contact details for the landlord, writing a blog post was the best thing I could think of to do to contact whoever it is.