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BBC1 Thursday 18th July, 10:30pm: Meet The Landlords.
This is a documentary about property in hard times with tenants in difficulty, some landlords enjoying the boom, some in trouble, and Landlord Action helping out.
We haven’t seen a preview but it sounds like it won’t be easy viewing, even for Landlord Action. This will be compulsory television for everybody in property!
Official Press release below:
Property Expert, Paul Shamplina, helps mop up the mess of ‘generation rent’
On 18th July, founder of tenant eviction specialists Landlord Action and leading property expert, Paul Shamplina, will be featuring in a one hour documentary, ‘Meet the Landlords’ on BBC 1, looking at the possibilities and pitfalls of being a ‘generation rent’ landlord.
Landlord Action, an organisation which has acted on more than 20,000 problem tenant cases, says the buy-to-let boom, which has lead to over 8.5 million people in the UK now living in a rented property, is the result of a cocktail of factors. These include; a lack of house building, less affordable housing, restricted funding in the mortgage market forcing more people to rent, tougher austerity measures leading to cuts on housing benefits, stagnant wages, increased cost of living and rising unemployment.
The documentary will meet the new army of private landlords who are riding the rental boom, both making and losing money as they struggle to get rid of non-paying tenants, as well as follow the tenants who are getting behind with their rent and risk losing their homes.
Few people have been involved in this business for as long as Paul Shamplina, who has been helping landlords with problem tenants for over 25 years and whose campaign was instrumental in passing the recently imposed bill to criminalise squatting. Two of the landlords featuring in the show have instructed the help of Landlord Action and Paul Shamplina can be seen helping them to reclaim possession.
Paul says “Over the years, our experience of professional bad tenants has been plentiful, often evicting the same tenant from more than one property. Whilst they are the minority, this type of tenant has the intention of preying on vulnerable landlords in order to live for free. They will seek out someone new to the market who is self-managing a property and who, out of financial desperation to avoid a void period, will accept a tenant with minimum referencing. However, more and more, we are also seeing situations where tenants have fallen on tough times and remain in properties out of desperation. The show seeks to underline this plethora of scenarios that ‘generation rent’ is creating by following landlords, both professional and amateur, in very different situations.”
Paul wants to help highlight possible problems to landlords, enable them to recognise the tell-tale signs of a problem tenant, or just one that has run into financial difficulty, and offer advice on the best approach to take in order to resolve the issue as painlessly and cost effectively as possible.
Mr Shamplina will also be featuring on BBCs ‘Rip Off Britain’ in September, in a feature which highlights the growing problems surrounding illegal sub-letting.
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Sign Up22:46 PM, 17th July 2013, About 12 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Ben Reeve-Lewis" at "15/07/2013 - 17:32":
Hi Ben I would like your thoughts and others on the following as I am lost a tad. Well some basic facts I took a parcel of land of my father 12 years ago with a view to buy with no completion date, I paid no rent but have made huge improvements over the years gaining planning concents to the point it's worth a few hundred thousand. A few weeks ago now I was told he wanted it back,and I had to go and all the improvements were done at my loss .I was given 28 days or be evicted either by force or with bailiffs. In the following days I received texts saying my property will be taken and sold and any attempt to remove my improvements will be classed as criminal damage or theft !!. I used a solicitor who is good but my father and family seem to ignore him and I was at the property the other day and he turned up with another like a scene from the ateam saying he was taking it back no matter what. he had damaged things I had done walked everywhere intimidating me .I called the police who turned up my father told the police I threatened him and they said its nothing to do with them it's civil. I said does someone have to get hurt before they act, what happens if they break the locks let my animals onto the road and they kill someone (this is what they would do) the police said I am over reacting to which I said I am disabled have a 12 month old child with me and there there shouting while I was in the car blocked in by them waiting for the police to come. They said well they have committed no crime !!! . I offered to move and give up any rites I had if they reimbursed me for my improvements a very reasonable figure as I have had enough of it all they first offered a low figure then changed there mind going back to saying one way or another i am being evicted .but 28 days to move 12+ years of my life and all this hastle worrying all the time all because of a mans greed .he now says he just let me use it never to buy it I have bills going back to day 1 but it seems he can do what he pleases and the police do nothing. As I said I am lost a tad. I hope this can be a useful thread
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Sign Up8:42 AM, 19th July 2013, About 12 years ago
I am in Prague for the speedway World Cup this week so I didn't get to see the program. Was it worth watching?
Neil Patterson
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Sign Up15:22 PM, 19th July 2013, About 12 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Mark Alexander" at "19/07/2013 - 08:42":
Mark, I am not Joking it actually gave me nightmares for real.
It was just a tragic story following a few examples of Broken Britain.
I kept waking up thinking I was paying £460 per month to live in an HMODaddy "Studio Apartment".
Upsetting to watch, but as I have probably met thousands of Landlords I can rest a little easier knowing that the vast majority of Landlords and Tenants are just getting along with life and each other.
Vanessa Warwick
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Sign Up17:23 PM, 19th July 2013, About 12 years ago
Hi Mark,
Put "Meet the Landlords" into google and you will find my review on Property Tribes at the top. 🙂
The programme is now available to view on iPlayer for those that missed it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0377w72/Meet_the_Landlords/
Have a great weekend! 🙂
Mark Alexander - Founder of Property118
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Sign Up17:28 PM, 19th July 2013, About 12 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Vanessa Warwick" at "19/07/2013 - 17:23":
I've been reading your thread Vanessa, it's been very opular and Google has obviously picked that up, well done 🙂
Vanessa Warwick
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Sign Up17:30 PM, 19th July 2013, About 12 years ago
Thanks Mark.
BTW, do you know why my commentluv isn't working?!
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Sign Up18:00 PM, 19th July 2013, About 12 years ago
Reply to the comment left by "Vanessa Warwick" at "19/07/2013 - 17:30":
Hi Vanessa, CommentLuv is working so far as i know. What were you expecting it to do that it's not doing?