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Can't Pay or We'll take it away (Series 4 Part 2)
Brandon_Smith
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Anyone watching this its back for new episodes I find it interesting and sometimes when it cant be helped feel sorry for the people in debt as its usually the council's fault.
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£1200 a month for a room the size of an outside loo :eek:
I understand it was a frustrating situation but the dad and uncle really didn't need to start threatening violence. The dad also insinuated his son owed about 20k elsewhere so it may not have been the first or even last that family will see of bailiffs turning up there.
The polish family really annoyed me. Insisting they wanted £200 they'd paid the landlord recently when they owe him thousands in rent which he'll probably never get from them. Cheeky sods.
It's clear from this show that something needs to be done about rents in London. It's absurd for someone to pay £1200pcm for a room! That could get you a 2 or 3 bed house within commuting distance of London!
Same Jason.
Though it will probably be repeated about 83 times so we will see it sometime.
Doubt that the existing rent will be £1200. More likely he is paying £400 and believes that the landlord wants to triple that.
For a single man the council might provide emergency accommodation (which could be a hostel) for a limited period but there is no way that he will get long term council accomodation.
In what cases last night was it the council's fault?
I didn't really. He had been given 5 months notice to leave and had decided to stay there, I'm not sure why he seemed so surprised that he was being evicted.
I'm not sure where in London it was, but there are plenty of places in London you can get a much nicer place for much less money.
It was in Clapton, East London. Most of that area is a sh*thole. The Murder Mile, as its named!
Would just be helpful when the guys are explaining it to also be able to refer to this text on the County Court letter these people attempt to wave around in their face to kick them out.
£4000 to bury a human ?
Yeah, but she was your Mum though.
It was a repeat of Wednesday's episode.
They should check out Direct Cremation, it's less than half that amount!
if it was me being doorstepped the first thing i'd tell them is "switch off the cameras!!"
The law is extremely complex on this, suffice to say I'm sure Channel 5 have had legal advice.
If you have money problems and the bailiffs turn up with a tv crew who offer you some money to be in their show most people will take the money.
If you have no power to stop someone filming you in public with their mobile phone I don't see how you have the power to stop a Channel 5 TV crew filming you.
The balliff's personal cameras are a visual and audio account of their behaviour and the behaviour [ usually bad ] of the people being served the writ.
It's different on private property, but it's not simply a case of it's illegal or it's legal.
Ever consider that landlords may have a mortgage to pay against their properties and those who don't pay their rent put the landlord in a difficult position? There are some shocking landlords, but also a lot of very bad tenants.
Seems to be the old "we've got a new slightly different company name so the debts not ours" case.
Unfortunately for them they disclosed that they took over in June and that they knew nothing about the car sale the debt was for. Then it was checked and the sake happened in October. Now they're trying to drive all the stock away to stop things being seized! lol
MPs really should be doing something to close this loophole, its been going for ages and nothing seems to get done about it.
The firms are often sold to a friend or relative.
The show masquerades as social commentary, like many others in the genre, but really I think its main target audience is people who just enjoy watching aggro and aggression, not unlike Jeremy Kyle viewers in fact.
Some seem reasonable and make an effort to calm the debtors and not needlessly inflame the situation. In contrast some are very obnoxious and arrogant and have a manner that just enrages the debtors even more.
That Scottish agent who is on the programme a lot seems a particularly arrogant and toxic individual, the whole way he conducts himself, including his mannerism and smug facial expressions is just thoroughly unpleasant and I'm not surprised many kick off with him.