Why does your landlord insist on all his mail be sent to the house he rented to us and he dont live here you dont feel comfortable with that?

Answer 1

If your landlord insists all his mail be sent to the home you're renting from him it does sound a bit wrong, doesn't it? It's understandable you don't feel comfortable doing this.

Your landlord can't legally make you responsible for receiving and holding his mail. On the other hand, you probably don't want to antagonize him and perhaps risk him making difficulties for you as his tenants.

So you very likely need to seem to be nice and helpful about this.

One idea might be to hold his mail until he calls for it, and have ready two copies of a letter (keep another copy on your computer), something like this:

______________________________

'Dear Mr. (his name),

Here is the mail addressed to you, received at (your rental address), as follows:

1. Window-faced standard envelope, white; return address (sender); postmarked (date); received here on (date).

2. Plain standard envelope, blue; return address (sender); postmarked (date); received here on (date).

3. Large manila envelope; return address (sender); postmarked (date); received here on (date).

4. Plain standard envelope, pink; no return address; postmarked (date); received here on (date).

(…and so on…)

Sincerely,

(Your signature)

Received by (his signature) on (date he collects)

______________________________

Ask him to sign and date both copies, one for him and one for you to keep.

Explain politely to him that this is so that if there's any question of something not arriving, he has a proper record of all the mail that's come for him at your address. Put it very definitely as though you're doing him a favor, for his own protection.

If your landlord wants you to receive his mail for truly innocent purposes - and that isn't totally unlikely - he won't mind this at all.

If his motives aren't innocent - maybe he has something to hide - he certainly won't like it.

You'll need to insist this is for the protection of both of you in case there's any question of mail going missing, or not being delivered, and that unless you keep a proper record and he signs for the mail as recorded, you can't take the responsibility.

Put this in writing for him, and give it to him along with his mail - and the list of mail for him to sign - next time he calls.

He'll either agree, in which case you're going to a bit of effort for him, but don't need to feel uncomfortable because - on your part at least - everything's now above board, or (quite possibly) he'll refuse to sign. Makes no difference, really, because just the fact you're keeping a list of all his mail will very likely lead him to decide to have his mail sent somewhere else.

Remember to keep records of all this on your computer, including scanned copies of the letter listing his mail, if he signs it, or notes to say he didn't sign it, and why, and any other correspondence between you. If he makes problems for you in the future, simply telling him you have everything on record might be sufficient to have him leave you alone.