Giving tenant personal address

[Nicole Dudley]

Am I , as a landlord, required to give a tenant my personal address?

[Walt Dockery]

Yes, they have my address as it is listed as my mailing address on my lease, I don’t want to bother with a P.O. box.  My rental is owned under my name and self managed, and if you own your own home under your name, it would take all of 10 seconds to find your address online in most counties anyway.

Security through obscurity is almost always a superficial / feelgood / ineffective means of protecting yourself. If someone wants your address they can and will easily find it. I’m not saying you should post it publicly for everyone to see or anything, but if you have business dealings under your own name I don’t see any benefit to pretending your address is secret.  If I had lots of units I’d probably use LLCs and a P.O. box but wouldn’t delude myself into thinking that makes my physical location impossible or even difficult to find.