how do i find out who lived at my new home prior to me and is since deceased?

Question

i have a lot of debt letters arriving at my new home of four months standing related to a man who died last year sometime apparently over 76 yuears old how would i find out when he died or birthdte as i am asked this to clear the adress of bad credit i didint know him but have letters adressed to him i think he died before september 2006 and received free tv licence being over 75

Answer 1

It's not necessary for you to clear an address of bad credit, just a good idea to find out if there was a lien (which should have been taken care of when you purchased the place) so just write Deceased on the envelopes as they arrive and set them back out in the mail. If you must know about him, research the newspaper obituaries online or at the library for that month and year. Whether he received anything for being a senior citizen is nobody's business.

Answer 2

Bad credit goes with a person, not an address.

You don't need to worry about who the previous owner or resident was, when s/he died, or how much s/he owed to whom, etc.

When you get mail addressed to him, whether it's a debt letter or something else, write on the envelope "UNKNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS--DECEASED?" and put it back out for the mail carrier to take away.

The only caution you need to exercise is to be sure you're not continuing to receive any services under the previous person's name or with any discount he might have received. Be sure utilities, TV cable, internet, water, etc. are all billed to the proper name as of the time you moved in.

Answer 3

Try the office of "Births Deaths and Marriages"

Or the Police Station?

Or the Post Office. He had a postman deliver the post for his time alive. They could stop it ever arriving maybe with a form you could fill out.

Good luck. Or you could just send the letters abck to the senders with the information "DEceased" written in red.

Answer 4

you can check it from your local council's electoral register.
copy of electoral register is usually kept at your local reference library. you could also sent the letter back to where they came from. usually the address is written on back of the envelopes stating addressee no longer live at this address.

Answer 5

Search for his name in your local papers online for an obituary, it should tell his birthdate and death. Or just type in his name and state into Google search and something could pop up.

Answer 6

Go to the CAB and enlist their help to get these morons off your back.

Answer 7

the address doesn't get bad credit, the person does.

Answer 8

go to the library and ask the will be very help-full