LL held mail 22 at her office.......

[phylkth]

Now it is July 29. I changed my mailing address to a po box 6/18. I received a call today from the LL office stating I had some mail there - shall they forward or would I like to pick up? The mail was postmarked 6/26 - 7/7. The PO not forwarding to the POB is one issue. However, my issue w/ the LL is why would she be going thru the mailbox of the newly rented property, extract my mail, and take back to her office and hold for 22 days???? Needless to say, most of it was very time sensitive + did she really return all of it? It has always been my understanding that mail is very "legal" and if delivered to the incorrect address or the party has moved, simply write on envelope for mail carrier to handle. Otherwise, I feel taking my mail and holding for such a lengthy period of time is basically stealing!

Just a side note, this is the LL who did not disclose to me upon entering the lease that I would be paying for the utilities in the basement shared with the upstairs tenant. I know.....I put up with that for 5 yrs and need to let that go. However, the new, young tenants have discovered they will be paying for those utilities and it wasn't disclosed to them either! SURPRISE!!!!!! How on earth do these kinds of LLs get stopped when you say that judges tend to side with LLs????

Please see my previous posts to see how this LL simply doesn't operate her rental properties in an ethical fashion. She is sending clear signals of greed and certainly showing signs of being a 'slum lord'.

You say this was newly rented property. I'm guessing that the LL had not been accumulating this mail in the office all this time. (No LL wants mail and stuff piling up.) Could it be that this mail was gathering in the mailbox until the new tenant moved in? He finally opened the mail box and found all of it? Maybe the new tenant then removed it and took it the office, as he didn't want to throw it away? The LL could have just tossed it since it was weeks old, but instead called to see if you wanted it. I know the LL wasn't honest when you didn't receive disclosure on the shared utility arrangements, but I don't see this one as being the LL's fault. Your real beef is with the post office. Why didn't they forward your mail as requested?