Squatting in her Repossesed House !

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mystic_trev wrote: »

Von Däniken.............seems to rhyme with something :rolleyes:

It rhymes with her uncle Eric, who wrote at length and tediously about gods and other aliens from distant planets visiting earth .

amcluesent

"I had just broken up with my sons' father"
"Unbeknown to me, Simon had taken out a £550,000 mortgage on my home. "

Death/Debt/Divorce...any one of these will mean you lose on the housing market.

Avina_Popp

Tobias and Caspar!

"I wasn't suspicious when he suggested we put the house in his name...."!

tirano

Looks as though the Mail are behind the times, she was evicted yesterday - see last paragraph
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/09/squat-artists-mayfair

PasturesNew

tirano wrote: »

Looks as though the Mail are behind the times, she was evicted yesterday - see last paragraph
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/09/squat-artists-mayfair

Just in case you're too lazy to click and wait for it to load:

In another celebrated eviction case, a once wealthy interior designer was removed from her £1.6m home yesterday. Samantha von Daniken, 46, was evicted from the Old Rectory, in Kettlestone, Norfolk, after four police officers and a bailiff arrived with a court order to remove her and a locksmith changed the locks.

She was first evicted from her sprawling estate last August, having run up a debt of more than £1m. She had since claimed squatter's rights after bailiffs let her back into the house to collect furniture.

Somerset

So I wasn't suspicious when he suggested we put the house in his name while giving me a deed of trust allowing me and my children to live in the house for ever

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Duh ! It's my house but me darling husband-to-be thinks it should be in his name, but that sounds fine because he'll let me and me kids live there .... it's got to be legit, right, cos he looks like Hugh Grant ?

The loans companies put my home on the market for ?769,000. It was a ludicrous underestimate, but they simply wanted to recoup their debts

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Obviously ludicrous - I mean it's worth 1.6m. Wonder why it wasn't snapped up at that ludicrously low price ?

dad-of-4

PasturesNew wrote: »

OK, without going into anything at all and saying "she should have known", I do think it's a pity that she didn't manage to get her stuff out properly and ended up having the house burgled 7 times and everything stolen.

nope its her own stupid fault for A) thinking it wouldnt happen letting it get burgled 7 times before she decided to squat.

im not sure if metioning names like annie lenox & the petshop boys says more about why shes skint, or how out of touch the daily mail readership is.

i havent even read the article i got as far as the italics & the i fell in love with the old rectory.

skipped to "my home is worth 1.6 million" and I thought hmmm, im sure YOU realy doo think that.

next paragraph, a plan to sell the barns.


so its

i fell in love,

1.6 million

sell the barns

so realy shes just another gravy train robber on the make, who refuses to loose, cos lifes so hard when you only have 200k in the bank for a house.

after that i lost interest.

sharnad

If your sad googling like me while waiting for the chinese to turn up it comes up with she was evicted in 2004 and had a nasty incident at her antiques store in 2007 in the storms

Wish the food would get here

PasturesNew

sharnad wrote: »

... waiting for the chinese to turn up ...

grrrr... I'm having an MSE Saturday night. I thought everybody was. Nobody told ME it was chinese night!

I found 1Kg of spuds I bought a week before Xmas (best before 24 December), that had been left unopened in my cupboard between then and today. They all had massive sprouting bits all over them, so cut those off and cooked/mashed them, grated some cheapo cheese in and cooked half a tin of beans.

So here I sit, cheesy mash and beans - and you go and mention a chinese!!

wageslave

sharnad wrote: »

If your sad googling like me while waiting for the chinese to turn up it comes up with she was evicted in 2004 and had a nasty incident at her antiques store in 2007 in the storms

Wish the food would get here

Plus ca change............
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/mortgages/2886892/A-mother-and-her-sons-without-a-home-to-call-their-own.html