The Enforcers on ITV
Ollie_h19
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Another one of these high court sheriff shows on ITV now. It used to be cop/"Road Wars" type shows everywhere, now it's these. I cant get enough of them.
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Ollie_h19
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Pay your rent or downsize, or find help. Or get evicted.
this and channel 5's can't pay we'll take it away, and bbc's sheriffs
i find it both upsetting and compelling at the same time
Was expecting to see Uncle Fester etc...
if there was no cameras he would have, and quite rightly too
you'd need the patience of Job
Good point. It's easy for viewers to side with the bailiffs against so-called 'wrong doers', but there's often two sides to every story.
6 months ago, I was absolutely stiffed by a crooked 'solicitor'. Not only did they do absolutely nothing for me, they escalated their original quote from £600 to £1800. When I refused to pay, they served me with papers threatening bailiffs etc. Not being one who likes to have people hammmering on my door, I had no alternative but to pay these scum.
It said they had correspondence but as usual people ignore or just hope it will go away, they didn't just turn up and evict them out of the blue
Actually, they said the landlord received correspondence, and they didn't know whether the landlord had informed the tenants. He probably didn't inform them as they were still paying their rent.
I agree with this, that did seem really unfair as they'd still been paying the rent!
As I understood it the correspondence went to the landlord - not to the tenants.
I never tire of being amazed at folk who don't pay their basic bills, but do things like drive around in nice cars etc, then they are shocked & upset when enforcer types turn up at their door.
however, it depresses me to see that people like the squatters in the commercial property were actually legally covered and within their rights to stay put. the sheriff can't force them out, the police can't force them out, and the landlord can't access his/her building!?! i noticed the law covering them (they had it taped to the inside of the door) was from 1977 or something. some of these 'laws' seriously need looked at. as the sheriff said at one eviction, landlords (remember them law makers? ... the folk that OWN the property!) are often left with huge bills to rectify damage and make the property sound/usable again.
half of them, middle class warriors as the sheriff said, probably survive on a monthly allowance from mummy and daddy whilst they fight the good fight. it amazes me that these people see it as their right and duty to squat in properties they don't own.
it's irrelevant if the property is sitting empty ...
it's irrelevant if the person that owns the property is a billionaire ...
it's irrelevant if you think it's all morally wrong ...
THE
PROPERTY
DOES
NOT
BELONG
TO
YOU
AND
IF
YOU
DO
NOT
HAVE
A
LEGAL
CONTRACT
TO
LIVE
IN
SAID
PROPERTY
YOU
SHOULD
BE
EVICTED
WITHIN
24
HOURS
NOT
EFF'ING
WEEKS
OR
MONTHS
TO
LET
THE
'LEGAL'
PROCESS
RUN!!!
I'd rather lose my job as an "officer" than treat someone so utterly coldly and without sympathy or emotion. What a barrel scraping of a job, doing this all day long. Utterly soul destroying, and yes - many people who they evict from ARE in the wrong, but a kind word turns away wrath, and they seem to *intentionally* want to wind people up with their primitive, passive-aggressive attitudes to people who have made mistakes.
England is a pathetic country in SO many ways - stiff upper lip and all these thickos doing jobs that give them an ego trip, well yeah... go for it, if that's as high as you aim for in life... how depressing for you to have that kind of employment
Zazoop what you need to remember at all times is that work is not plentiful in the UK! Most jobs are temporary or zero hour contracts so these Enforcers cannot willfully get sacked week in week out by continually breaking the law that they are there to enforce! Will you personally employ them all in new jobs? We are competing with most of Eastern bloody Europe for jobs especially the lower skilled sorts of jobs in our country so these Enforcers will do their jobs as professionally as possible to avoid ending up in the dole queue! I recently had a few months unemployment and it scared me how little was out there, one of the few permanent jobs I kept seeing advertised was work as an Enforcer!