Re: evicted tenant and mail - Landlord Forum thread 293704

Re: evicted tenant and mail by Anon (Ohio) on June 9, 2013 @19:30

Mark the envelope "return to sender, person not at this address", and send it back to the post office. I get mail from people that have not lived at the address for years.
You as the landlord have the right to clean out the mailbox, but the mail should be sent back.
Clue her in, she is not to be using the mailbox, on the property or anywhere near the house, she has been evicted. If she is so worried about the mail, she can contact the business that sent her the correspondence.

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Re: evicted tenant and mail by sandra on June 9, 2013 @22:30	[ Reply ]

thank you everybody for the advsie. I went today no mail in the mailbox for her the post put a sign forward mail. so I guess problem solve!

Re: evicted tenant and mail by Kay Kay (CA) on June 11, 2013 @01:53	[ Reply ]

If tenants ask me to mail their mail to them after they leave, I tell them that what I do is write "please forward" on it and throw it in the outgoing mailbox. That's the best I can do for them. I state things to tenants like they are a "rule." Funny how people will accept a rule. If you let them engage you in the guilt-trip, help me out routine, it's never ending. But, for some reason even these people will give up when faced with the brick wall of a rule. I state my rules nicely and with a smile, but i don't back down. If I need to do the broken record technique, I do. It usually just takes a minute before they can see that whining and cajoling isn't going to work, so they give up. Works great on little kids and dogs, too :-)