From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: Buy to let mortgage enquiry ....
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:14:19 GMT

rosyposy@excite.com wrote:

> Could be a requirement for his insurance cover.

Why?

And even if so, why not say so, why claim his lender requires it?

Frankly, the tenants' personal details are none of the landlord's,
nor his insurers', nor his lender's business, and this applies in
particular to children.  The disclosure of the children's ages (even
though in fact they're over 18) should be resisted on the principle
that if the ages were suitably low, it could attract the attention
of latent paedophiles on the staff of the insurer/lender who have
access to this information.  Or perhaps the landlord is one!