Is it legal to rent a property to a private tenant and still use that property as a Business address?
Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at
11:36 pm
Surely if a tenant pays rent it means that it is their home. So can a landlord still use his property as a business address for correspondence.
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legal maybe, but certainly risky. landlord might not get his business mail reliably. maybe he used to live there himself and has not informed everyone of his new address…
I’ve lived in situations like that. It wound up being easier just to get a PO BOX. The landlord was always “accidentally” picking up my mail or throwing away “junk mail” aka my magazines or catalogs or whatever. The headache wasn’t worth it. He was old and stubborn, and the rent was too cheap to make a big fuss out of. This way I didn’t have to listen to him complain that I didn’t give him his mail and vice versa.
In my situation, the landlord had not operated his business out of that address for more than five years, but he still directed all of his mail and packages there.
No it is not their home. The owner still owns it! It is not illegal for an owner to get mail at their house.
There could be some fraud issues if he is claiming to still live there, but that is on him and really has nothing to do with the tenant as far as liability goes.
I like the Idea of getting a PO box just to have a separate mailing address from them.
Ik zou op het terugkeer aan afzender schrijven, onbekende geadresseerde en zou het terug in de dichtste brievenbus dumpen