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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
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  • terryw
    terryw Posts: 4,396 Forumite
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    And you're a lawyer NSG! And even you are impressed with this load of twaddle.

    bw

    terryw

    p.s This post is in jest....you are wonderful poster and thankerer.
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  • tiny_tear
    tiny_tear Posts: 207 Forumite
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    Has anyone wondered how if she is so poor and only earns £14k as mentioned in the 'statement' she can afford the mortgage on the place?
  • Wee_Willy_Harris
    Wee_Willy_Harris Posts: 7,512 Forumite
    Again, it doesn't matter. The fact is that she has a house in Brighton that she chose to rent out before evicting her tenant in dubious circumstances. Even if she were a millionaire, that would still be the case. Perhaps daddy helped her, or she had a lottery win, or a good run on the horses, or previous good fortune with property.... whatever.
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    mynameisdave wrote: »
    Oh good god. Seriously. I didn't think this sordid affair could get much worse..

    http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/investment/article574239.ece

    Some landlords, such as television presenter John Stapleton, who has a buy-to-let flat in Richmond...

    Assuming he still has it he could have been a LL for 5 years and still doesn't know the rules. Either that or he feigned ignorance for the sake of the GMTV piece.

    There may well be another John Stapleton but I can't find one that appears as remotely famous as the GMTV guy.

    Edit: scrap that. It IS the same John Stapleton and he owns[ed?] three.
    http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article623276.ece

    I find it astonishing that not a single one of the people interviewed for the Times article has ever heard of a statutory periodic tenancy.
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  • tbs624
    tbs624 Posts: 10,816 Forumite
    LydiaJ wrote: »
    I find it astonishing that not a single one of the people interviewed for the Times article has ever heard of a statutory periodic tenancy.
    Don't worry, Suzy B will make sure that the law is changed: they won't ever have to worry their pretty heads about it again :D
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    tiny_tear wrote: »
    Has anyone wondered how if she is so poor and only earns £14k as mentioned in the 'statement' she can afford the mortgage on the place?
    It was said on the original thread that she paid cash in 2005 (if my memory serves me correctly).
  • dopester
    dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite
    Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »
    Again, it doesn't matter. The fact is that she has a house in Brighton that she chose to rent out before evicting her tenant in dubious circumstances. Even if she were a millionaire, that would still be the case. Perhaps daddy helped her, or she had a lottery win, or a good run on the horses, or previous good fortune with property.... whatever.

    You're fully correct in wanting to hold that position, but tiny-tear's question does have a little bit of bearing, given the landlord's emotional play about her house taking years of saving to get, on a BBC BBC Regional Television News TV broadcast (at 1:16 in - and in which the studio anchor also began the piece labelling Carmen Nobre as a "squatter").
    "The house took me years to save up to get; everything inside it has been - you know - scrimped and saved so I could buy stuff for my little boy. And at the moment, it just feels like.. I feel like I'm in hell. Feels like all my life, everything I've worked for has just been stripped and taken away from me."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi-oHee8gtE
  • cheap_charlie
    cheap_charlie Posts: 767 Forumite
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    mynameisdave wrote: »
    Oh good god. Seriously. I didn't think this sordid affair could get much worse..

    http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/investment/article574239.ece

    Some landlords, such as television presenter John Stapleton, who has a buy-to-let flat in Richmond...

    Assuming he still has it he could have been a LL for 5 years and still doesn't know the rules. Either that or he feigned ignorance for the sake of the GMTV piece.

    There may well be another John Stapleton but I can't find one that appears as remotely famous as the GMTV guy.

    Edit: scrap that. It IS the same John Stapleton and he owns[ed?] three.
    http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article623276.ece



    Does anyone else remember how he used to present "Watchdog" on BBC1 back in the 80s?

    Oh the irony...
  • PasturesNew
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    john539 wrote: »
    What are you talking about, that's over my head.
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