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The day the landlords moved in

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Ineedagoodusername · 28/06/2017 21:22

Is anyone watching this? The second landlord with his disgustingly extravagant lifestyle is making me so angry. The communal areas in his flats are horrific.

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qwertyuiop1234 · 12/07/2017 22:56

I see what you mean about the seminars, I find anything along those lines a bit odd but then if there's demand for it I suppose why not!

He does come across as lazy and like he's got used to an easy lifestyle, but there are a lot of people like that around rich and poor.

£2400 worth of rent he most probably won't see. I suspect she knew much earlier on but was delaying telling him!

TattyCat · 12/07/2017 23:32

The programme makers are never going to choose either party who may possibly have handled things reasonably.

The landlords are pretty crap because they have taken their eye off the ball and not cared enough = easy money and the tenants have been a bit remiss in not reporting issues (mostly and I take both sides with a pinch of salt because it all appears to have been 'verbal'and a bit wishy-washy reporting). For the programme purposes, both sides have to be a bit un/reasonable and have a story to tell, so it's very contrived.

There's no earthly reason why someone who has agreed a low rent initially to maintain the property would live without door handles and peeling and dirty paint; that's what they agreed to maintain to secure a low rent. However, he should have been making checks on behalf of both parties to make sure that things were as good as they could be. I don't understand someone at 43 years old (or whatever she said) who can't speak up about a dirty great crumbling hole in the ceiling and walls!! She's an adult and is still housing her children, so really should get her head around that one! There was plenty wrong there that she could have fixed and likewise, he's being a truly shit landlord.

But yes, he was a vacuous dick and needs to stop pretending to be a 'christian'; that's bollocks and anyone riding on the back of that kind of statement should take a long hard look in the mirror. I've been around long enough to roll my eyes as soon as that is trotted out... They were a really quite obnoxious couple.

As for the older landlords... I have no words...

Blondeshavemorefun · 13/07/2017 12:39

Agree he wasn't very Christian but she did owe him money for rent

Why should he not want it

Did think it was bad he had t been in the property for 3yrs

Rhubarbginisnotasin · 13/07/2017 12:53

Why did the tennant have her housing benefit refused?

Was she entitled to it as a student? Someone upthread implied she wasnt.

At one stage the bloke said he would need paid regardless and she raised her eyebrows as if to say as if so it looked that even if she got it she wouldnt be paying arrears.

The other landlord were clowns.

qwertyuiop1234 · 13/07/2017 15:44

Students are entitled as far as I'm aware as I've received it for 3 years whilst at uni as a single parent, I think she was hiding something

Thisarmingman · 13/07/2017 21:00

Maybe she was part time?

Blondeshavemorefun · 13/07/2017 22:21

Cheating their budget and getting s chinese as starving was booody annoying 😡🙄🤔

Prob cost £20/25 and could have brought food for another few days. Tho Obv not in the woman's budget

So why should they be allowed to cheat - esp as godly Christians

Rhubarbginisnotasin · 14/07/2017 17:49

Cheating their budget and getting s chinese as starving was booody annoying

You just knew he was a doughboy of a slob. He was fat and pasty and looked like he'd never eaten anything healthy in his life.

As a pair I was reminded of Caroline Aherne when she said to Debbie McGee - so what first attracted you to the millionaire.

Thisarmingman · 14/07/2017 22:19

Yeah he was definitely punching above his weight.

Pemba · 16/07/2017 03:43

Rhubarb I thought exactly the same about that couple! He was no oil painting, was he, and an obnoxious personality. A 'Christian' couple, Hmm

I do have sympathy for the ex nurse who is retraining at uni and her daughters, and was very sad to see she'd lost the house in the end. But I did sort of wonder that, with presumably a student loan, and her daughters looking older -( maybe they were working), how she couldn't manage to scrape up £400 a month. It's a very low rent, my daughter paid about the same for just a room while at uni.

But then, I don't really know her circumstances and what else she had to pay for.

Rhubarbginisnotasin · 16/07/2017 04:24

Pemba, nice name by the way. Is it because you have connections with Pemba?

I did wonder about the girls. One of them said she gave her mum money, 20 pounds, 10 pound, but I did wonder about board money or if what she gave was on top of board money.

I was shocked she lost the house at the end but unlike the other families we saw there was something about this particular story I think we weren't told. Im not entirely sure people were telling the truth even allowing for manipulation of the facts by the producers in order to make 'good' TV.

Pemba · 16/07/2017 04:59

No connections I am afraid. I just picked it out of a book I was reading (So Much for That by Lionel Shriver - it's the hero and his wife's dream place to retire to).

Yes it seemed an awful shame. That was a lot of house for the money and the area seemed nice too. Hope the fake Christians didn't just run out of patience for their rent money.

dillite · 30/08/2017 21:05

2 months after episode 1, we have episode 4. Anyone watching?

Akire · 30/08/2017 21:07

Yes me, only by chance.

dillite · 30/08/2017 21:15

The first landlord seems to live in the clouds and it looks like like most landlords relies solely on the estate agents to do everything without checking up on them.

Akire · 30/08/2017 21:29

The students are paying £700 month and he thinks they can all just party and not work??

dillite · 30/08/2017 21:30

Paul comes across as a massive dickwad. No wonder that place is the way it is.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 30/08/2017 21:31

God this makes me so depressed

dillite · 30/08/2017 21:32

I thought that the students were paying £2600 a month between the 6 of them? £430 each or so?

troodiedoo · 30/08/2017 21:34

Me also by chance as was watching master chef.

Paul is a right bell end. Do they always have one nice one and one twat?

dillite · 30/08/2017 21:35

I think they try and have a sort of a nice one and an utter twat usually, but most have been utter twats in the previous episodes.

Whatshouldmyusernamebe · 30/08/2017 21:38

All the ones I've seen they've all been dicks.

dillite · 30/08/2017 21:41

My brother lived in a student house last year and his bathroom was the same as the last house we were shown, only walls were also mouldy like that. His landlord did not give a flying fuck just told them to wipe it with bleach and open the windows. When they moved out he refused to return the deposit because they left mouldy walls and many other things.

dillite · 30/08/2017 21:41

Pauls daughter seems to be a better landlord than him. And she's 5.

fairgame84 · 30/08/2017 21:43

Why don't LL take mould seriously?Angry

I lived in a mouldy house for 5 years, My LL wasn't too fussed because it was too expensive to fix and it seems par for the course on this programme.