A second series starts tonight of ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’.
The ten-part series starts at 9pm on Channel 5 and will delve into the darker side of the UK rental market, featuring eviction specialist Paul Shamplina.
Tonight’s 60-minute episode will feature three stories, two of which cover a common landlord complaint – rent arrears.
Successful music entrepreneur Donovan Nelson hasn’t received rent for seven months from one of his tenants.
With spiralling costs, Nelson calls on the help of Landlord Action, but on the day of the court hearing, is faced with news that his tenant is there fighting the eviction, claiming the hot water isn’t working.
Shamplina said: “This case highlights one of my greatest concerns surrounding last year’s introduction of the ‘Retaliation Eviction’ law as part of The Deregulation Act 2015.
“The new measures protect tenants from being evicted when they raise a complaint about the condition of their home.
“Unfortunately, some tenants are using this as a loophole to avoid eviction, putting landlords under extreme financial pressure.”
Tonight’s instalment also exposes an unscrupulous landlord, previously known to the authorities, who is renting his HMO to numerous tenants in extremely unsanitary conditions, which has led to a rat infestation.
The first series of ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ drew 1.5m viewers when shown last summer.
Shamplina, founder of Landlord Action, will also be co-hosting ‘The Property Hour’ on LBC radio with Clive Bull every Thursday from 9pm-10pm for 13 weeks starting tomorrow.
Comments (9)
The heading should read ‘evictions self publicist’, having watched some of these programmes before very little was actually achieved for the downtrodden landlords.
Why don’t you change the record and stop always making the landlord to be the bad guy. This farce in how tenants seem to manipulate the system is beyond belive, also the council are just as bad. As the advice they give the tenants in ref to arrears is shocking. I would like to see one of these workers become a landlord and see how they would cope with the stress levels of tenants not paying. As for the loop hole. Get real.
At least this program gives a more balanced view than Matt Alwright as a “pretend” Housing Officer in the BBC’s Housing Enforcers where he often makes fundamental mistakes with technical terms and slags off landlords when the tenants are often seen as living in their own filth because they don’t clean their homes, leave food waste in the kitchens to attract vermin and dry washing indoors to grow their own mould! I used to think the BBC did balanced journalism but clearly they now use the sensationalism methodology to keep their viewing figures up!
“Why don’t you change the record and stop always making the landlord to be the bad guy.”
WHO are you referring to here? This is a NEWS REPORTING website. This is a press release – or a translation of it.
Don’t take potshots at the messenger.
Sanjeev, my clients rarely if ever suffer the stress of tenants not paying. I can only go on personal experience; I have seen many landlords choose to pay for our services once they have had a bad experience. It would not surprise me if the vast majority of the horror stories we hear about relate to properties self managed by inexperienced, or inept landlords – or the few inept letting agents. Many landlords bring problems on themselves; poor quality accommodation, no inpsections, non compliance, no proper checks going in, unwilling to spend money on the property. etc etc.
Um it’s called Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords. Seems balanced to me!
Nobody is taking any pot shots. Just stating the facts.
I beg to differ – your first sentence was a pot-shot at the site; your second was at tenants AND local Authorities…
…need I go on?
Don’t ‘Dislike’ – DEBATE.
Unless you’re my trusty Plank, that is…