Landlord awaits sentence over mortgage fraud

fatpig_2

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

"....repeatedly lied on mortgage application forms, claiming he was working for particular firms when he wasn’t. He would claim he was going to live in the properties, but would then rent them out for profit."

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All the sleazy BTL brigade are at it.

chucky

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

Perhaps you could start a thread on your bad tenants chucky?

No - I don't have an obsession with bad landlords. Sorry.

PasturesNew

As I see it, this thread was started to provide a link to where somebody who HAD lied on mortgage applications had been investigated and prosecuted.

To date, we all know it's going on, it's been on the TV etc as possible, but there's not been much documented evidence pointing out who was at it and showing that action has been taken against them.

Other posters seem to have taken it out of context and pounced on what is just an interesting and useful link.

MissMoneypenny

socrates wrote: »

Yes - but tell me anyway have you had a bad experience with one or are you just a frustrated wannabe BTL LL"?

Why do you think that people who point out the outcome of mortgage fraud are "a frustrated wannabe BTL LL"?

It's hardly surprising that the lenders are taking this action now though, is it? In a rising market lenders might turn a blind eye, but in a falling market (especially one that is falling as fast as this one) they won't.

chucky

PasturesNew wrote: »

As I see it, this thread was started to provide a link to where somebody who HAD lied on mortgage applications had been investigated and prosecuted.

To date, we all know it's going on, it's been on the TV etc as possible, but there's not been much documented evidence pointing out who was at it and showing that action has been taken against them.

Other posters seem to have taken it out of context and pounced on what is just an interesting and useful link.

good observation, it's just a normal thread then. why only pass that comment and focus on this one?

back on topic - fraud is bad and catches up with you in the end. it's not good and impacts people down the line, in this scenario the tenants...

PasturesNew

As for him being a bad landlord or not:

AN abusive housing landlord offered a council worker £20,000 after asking her for addresses of former tenants who owed him money, a court was told yesterday.

Steven Dickens also boasted of kneecapping a man and told a housing officer he would have a murder on his hands if he sent a colleague to his home, it was alleged.

Prestatyn Magistrates' Court was yesterday told of harassment, threats and abuse allegedly suffered at the hands of 40-year-old Dickens.
The evidence was part of an application for an anti-social behaviour order against Dickens, who owns dozens of properties in the Colwyn Bay and Llandudno area.

http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/tm_objectid=16237601&method=full&siteid=50142&headline=i-ll-make-your-life-hell-name_page.html

Loads more about him/his behaviour towards tenatns and other people, here:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Steven+Dickens%22+conwy&meta=

socrates

I did state that I felt it was an interesting post - my point was the common theme of the OP.

fatpig_2

chucky wrote: »

back on topic - fraud is bad and catches up with you in the end. ..

Not paying your income tax catches up with you too chucky. I wouldn't like to be in your shoes when you get that rap on the door.