I am in receipt of an email written by the managing agents of the Freeholder to one of the beneficiaries.
The circumstances are that we are still awaiting probate, one beneficiary is the mortgage holder, but the Will gives the all the beneficiaries an equal share of the property.


'Dear xxx,

The landlord received representations from one of the other 'beneficiaries' not to deal with you.
As I understand matters are at present the beneficiaries have no legal standing and given the reported disagreements amongst you I believe it would be better to deal with only thoses persons legally entitled to act.

In any case we are in correspondence with the supposedly missing lessee, Mr xxx, and can deal with him accordingly. In any case he purports to act for the beneficiaries.

Regards

xxx'

My questions are

1a) Who is the lessee while we await Probate, just because one beneficiary owns the mortgage, does that make him the only one able to act?
1b) If he is the sole lessee does he have a right to appoint people to act for him (just as the Freeholder has done?)
2) Is the letter correct by implying that the beneficiaries are not 'legally entitled to act' i.e. send letters regarding the Freehold on behalf of the Lessee. Just because one beneficiary owns the mortgage, does that make him the only one able to act?
3) If this is false information, combined with many other actions by the Freeholders and Agents amount to harassment especially at this distressing time?

If there are any question that don't fall into your legal expertise, please let me know so I can refer these questions to a specialist in Probate.

Many thanks