That's a bit of a beauty, eh? Silence a lot of uninformed opinion.
I want to put my two bob's worth in:
All landlords should be known to their tenants.
I even want to know the landlord for the bloke next door.
Because the bloke next door is a deceitful antisocial musically challenged possible moron who plays music heavy on the subwoofer at all hours of the day and night.
We of course don't hear whatever 'music' there is: whatever possible melody lines or harmony might exist within the piece, whatever engaging solo riffs demonstrations of instrument mastery or whatever else: we hear a monotonous, endless, pounding, boom, boom, boom from the bass.
And the liar promises to do something about it and doesn't.
Hence he's not only all of the above but is also deliberately and obviously sticking his finger right up in my face - being personally provocative and insulting, challenging, aggressive.... daring me, defying me, to do something about it.
And the agent does nothing. And will not divulge the name of the owner.
Yep. So I want the name of the owner.
Because at the very least he can experience what I experience. I can arrange that.
Not easy and perhaps with legal difficulties. But I'd fancy my chances of parking my car outside his front door and directing the same 'boom booms' at him. I think the local coppers would understand and located thusly there'd be minimum hassle to the neighbours - that's the biggest difficulty, doing the right thing by the neighbours.
I could go this prat full on, bombard him with sound till his head was ringing, but that'd mean inflicting stuff on the neighbours.
So I think the other is a good possibility.
So I'd need the name of the owner.
Which isn't easy to get. Because the owner is like so many in this thread and wants to hide out.
Well no. You can't hide out. And you shouldn't hide out.
Listen, I want to hide out, too.
But I can't and shouldn't.
The 'baddies' always threaten escalation and always threaten the harmless, the impotent, the weak, the susceptible. Always. Everywhere.
It is happening right now all over the world. Shocking. Terrible. Syria. Irag. Iran. Afqhanistan. I dunno. Everywhere, isn't it?
So I escalate with this prat and simply fight back.
The next thing I (potentially) know could be anything from my kids being hassled at school by his kids (his friends/relatives kids, he actually doesn't have any.. it's the idea I'm talking about) to me being fronted by a couple of sociopathic psychotic mates of his (theirs, he has 'mates') and threatened or bashed.
Via all the possible stops in between: my wife being harassed or actually assaulted, our place being somehow attacked, violated, invaded.. whatever.
See?
I want to hide from all that.
I don't want to run the risk of that. Any of it.
So the desire is to stay silent. To suffer in silence. To suffer war within my own home because of it. Because upon discussion my wife - motivated the same way and with a women's particular concern for her children I suppose - insists I should do nothing.
Though she's the main one that can't sleep because of it. She's the one that has to rise early for work. She's the one suffers most.
But, like I said, it is the weak and vulnerable that they prey on.
So I do as I wish regardless of the wife. I do what I think must be done.
They must be confronted. And as early as possible. From the very beginning. It all must have the light of day shone on it.
His name and family and place of origin, his friends, everything that can be revealed. For instance.
And everyone involved has to be brought into it. That means the agent and the owner.
And so on.
See? That's the way life is. Like it or not.
We're fairly happy here in Australia. Pretty widely law abiding and we respect each other and live together peacefully.
And we do it by pinching in the bud those kind of transgressions.
By standing up to them, standing up and being counted, not by hiding.
And everything I've said so far applies only to the need for owners to be known and recognised as a general principal in a free and fair society.
There's another aspect which I won't say anything about beyond pointing to:
You're a landlord. Seeking to profit from another's toil.
Think on that.