Smells, Scams, and Subterfuge ~ Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords

Lobster Lettings agents investigate a bad smell in at a property in Wigan, after the emergency inspection turns sour the tenant stopped paying her rent.

In Croydon there’s a complicated case involving a subletting scam in which the landlord and tenants were victims. Eviction expert Paul Shamplina helps Londoner Juliette get her property back after she signed up with a real estate agent who sub-contracted it on to another company, which handed the contract on to yet another leasing agent.

Letting agent Paul Ainsworth Lord has had a tipoff that one of his commercial property tenants in Darwen has done a runner. The tenant runs a wedding business but has got seriously behind with rent, forged a friend’s signature, and won’t answer calls.

This series follows the eviction specialists whose job it is to tackle tenants who can’t, or won’t pay the rent, and local authority housing offices tasked with going after rogue landlords. We also follow the work letting agents dealing with problem tenants. From a weed farm in a three-bedroom Blackburn semi, to drug addicts in a Blackpool bedsit, to 25 migrants squeezed into a suburban London home, Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords, delves into dark side of Britain’s housing crisis.

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