ubiquitous
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It's a business. It's not a hobby. If your tenants don't return a form to you get down to the house and get it off them. It's YOUR responsibility. YOU'RE the one who'll end up in court. Would you show the same frivilous attitude if they didn't pay the rent?
What do you propose the landlord should do, if a tenant refuses to provide their PPS or to sign the form? Kick them out? Send round the local 'RA? I know of at least one case where a (decent & long-term) tenant has flatly refused to give their landlord their PPS on the basis of "privacy". Seeing as we don't officially live (as yet) in a police state, I would have thought that the tenant's wishes/fears should be respected.
This is a terrible attitude. If I ran a company with this lack of common sense I'd be out of business within a year. "Arrah shure I sent the bill to my clients but dey never replied, what could I do?".
What if it was a case of "Arrah shure I asked the supplier to send me the bill but he never did, what could I do?"?.