Previous owner problem

[threaded]

Personally, I think both practices ought to be illegal.

I agree, but there is a deeper intention as to why it isn't.

[IR35 Avoider]

The previous owner of my place was being pursued for debt. I did eventually have someone (a bailiff I think) turn up at my door looking for him. I told him that he was a couple of years to late, and never heard any more.

[Sysman]

I would do so, but have no forwarding address for said previous owner.

Estate agents will not give me any details and apparently they have archived any details of sales in the last 3 years (helpful, not!).

Perhaps a long shot, but the solicitor you used to buy the house might be able to ask the vendor's solicitor to forward a letter.

I don't know how you can convince these people otherwise that this barsteward doesn't live here.

When I got a load of insurance guff for someone who nobody seemed to know, I did the "Return to Sender" bit, and simply got the lot back. What fixed it was sending the insurance company a letter saying that any further post that had to be returned would be subject to an administrative fee plus P&P plus VAT.

[xoggoth]

Identity theft? Pah. Just go on about sex with dead male squids and nobody will touch your identity with a barge pole.