Wilsons not paying mortgages

lisyloo

I would like all businesses to be moral and I make an effort to reward those who are - for example I won't knowingly buy cosmetics or toiletries from companies with an indefensible stand on animal cruelty.
However there're are far too many people who seem to think they are entitled to a handout and to have what everyone else has with no effort.
Business should be moral but they aren't charities.
If you want what others have the you should go and work for it if you are able. Plenty of people seem to have abilities in moaning so not without skills that could be applied elsewhere.

vanilla_twist

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't know how they operate .... if they were a Ltd company I'm sure somebody would have posted their accounts details at some point and I've never seen that happen.... so maybe it's all just in their names, as partners/sole traders.

Or maybe they have some complicated offshore investment company / whatever people with money seem to do.

Had a quick google and found this: http://companycheck.co.uk/director/904492268

Interestingly the house I rent is owner by Judith Wilson and she has no current ltd companies. As far as I am aware down my way (south of the Wilsons) the properties are all owned by her.

Happily I put a deposit down on my own home yesterday so will not be putting much more money their way. They have the monoploy this way. There are no other houses here to rent so no choice of a landlord. There are also a fair few of their houses currently available to rent, one of which has only had a tenant for 6 months in the last 3 years.
I will be leaving my fence on the grass when I go. Exactly the same place it has been for the last 5 months:(

V x

ruggedtoast

Graham_Devon wrote: »

The first time I saw the wilsons probably stemmed from a post on here.

Anyway, he was being interviewed by an investor programme and one of the questions was "how do you become so successful".

His answer was quite simple - "Be ruthless". He then went on to explain what he meant by that.

"It's not my problem if one of my tenenats is pregnant, her partner has left and she is £50 short on the rent - you have to be ruthless in this game, she is out and someone who can afford the rent is in". You could see his excitement building up, licking his chops at the prospect of some pregnant women scrabbling around for a home before she pops.

He mentioned one widower, recently lost her husband, couldn't afford the entire rent that month due to funeral costs etc. "Dispatched of", he remarked.

It was while mentioning these scenarios - scenario's he never needed to mention, but chose to do so himself, that he became engrossed in the interview - as if it was the part of BTL he enjoyed the most. I.e. the power he has over individual lives.

Much later on, he ran to become the police commissioner, again, a position of power.

My view was formed of the Wilsons from that one interview. Interviews since has followed the same pattern - many of you will remember the time that he was on the ITV news doing all he could to tell the nation how he was chucking everyone on benefits out of his houses.

But was that enough for Fergus? Oh no, he had to qualify it by stating "I feel sorry for battered wives who have come to us because we are very much consigning them to go back to their husbands to be beaten up again – but the situation is it cannot go on".

Wasn't enough to say he's chucking out benefit claimants and leave it at that, he had to go on and say "I'm going to throw abused wives back to their abusers". Why would you even say that!?

You just don't go on national TV and tell the nation you are a complete tool and will punish benefit claimants because you can unless you are proud of it.

My dislike of them isn't envy, as much as some landlords may wish to make out. It's simply the fact that he revels in telling us all just how ruthless he is, needlessly bringing up real world scenarios to prove his point.

These pair are hardly the victims of poor publicity. They are the creators.

TBF for all the pressure from organisations like Shelter and Priced Out, the Wilsons are the most likely instigators of tenancy reform in England.

Landlords aren't a group that enjoy much public goodwill in the first place, they have the Wilsons to thanks for eroding much of what there is.

If Labour had got in we would have tenancy reform now. As it is we'll have to wait a bit longer, but its coming.

Zandoni

He has had his shotgun license revoked now :rotfl:
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/property-magnate-fergus-wilson-loses-38400/

wymondham

Zandoni wrote: »

He has had his shotgun license revoked now :rotfl:
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/property-magnate-fergus-wilson-loses-38400/

His tenants must feel a little more at ease at night now!

PasturesNew

Zandoni wrote: »

He has had his shotgun license revoked now :rotfl:
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/property-magnate-fergus-wilson-loses-38400/

The judge has him weighed up - and was clearly holding back and biting his tongue, while delivering enough of a verbal attack to fly under the radar

All this from the man that wanted to be a Police Commissioner or something the other year.

Fat loon.

mayonnaise

The world has gone mad.

An upstanding citizen offering a roof over the head to countless families gets his gun license revoked, while a muslim fanatic hate preacher can't be tagged because it would breach his human rights.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3132171/The-terror-suspect-doesn-t-wear-electronic-tag-thinks-s-bomb-Tracker-breaches-imam-s-human-rights.html

Zandoni

mayonnaise wrote: »

The world has gone mad.

An upstanding citizen offering a roof over the head to countless families gets his gun license revoked, while a muslim fanatic hate preacher can't be tagged because it would breach his human rights.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3132171/The-terror-suspect-doesn-t-wear-electronic-tag-thinks-s-bomb-Tracker-breaches-imam-s-human-rights.html

Where's the upstanding citizen?

stator

mayonnaise wrote: »

The world has gone mad.

An upstanding citizen offering a roof over the head to countless families gets his gun license revoked, while a muslim fanatic hate preacher can't be tagged because it would breach his human rights.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3132171/The-terror-suspect-doesn-t-wear-electronic-tag-thinks-s-bomb-Tracker-breaches-imam-s-human-rights.html

A suspect muslim fanatic. If he had comitted a crime they would have charged him.
Call me old fashioned but I believe in holding a trial before you punish someone.

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

The judge has him weighed up - and was clearly holding back and biting his tongue, while delivering enough of a verbal attack to fly under the radar

All this from the man that wanted to be a Police Commissioner or something the other year.

Fat loon.

I think he needs professional help personally.

He seems to thrive on conflict. I do know self made business people like him, who always need to 'win' in any situation.

The closest he should get to the 'Police' is to be allowed to own a few of their classic albums