{"id":1376,"date":"2014-11-03T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2014-11-03T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T10:01:27","slug":"large-families-facing-eviction-by-britains-biggest-landlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/large-families-facing-eviction-by-britains-biggest-landlord.html","title":{"rendered":"Large Families Facing Eviction by Britain\u2019s Biggest Landlord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial super-landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, have once again hit the headlines for the way they are running their enormous <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.landlord_legal_documents.html#watch-demo-anchor\">property<\/a> empire. The Wilsons were heavily criticised by housing charities last year when it was revealed that they had evicted more than 200 tenants claiming Housing Benefit. This was alleged to be an economic decision at the time as apparently single mothers on welfare were less likely to default on the rent than eastern European migrants.<\/p>\n<p>The Wilsons have now changed tack and have begun serving eviction notices on many of the eastern European families with more than two children or those with three generations living in the same household.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of our houses in Ashford go to childless couples. However, after a couple of months there are four, five, six children and I have to evict the family. The tenancy has been taken by deception,\u201d says Fergus Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson says he has no choice because if he didn\u2019t his properties would be in breach of local authority \u2018overcrowding\u2019 rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to what may be depicted by the leftwing media, I do not eat little babies alive \u2026 I do not make the rules, but I do play by them \u2026 welcome to ethnic engineering at the coal face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wilsons are also not fans of \u2018zero hours\u2019 contracts and any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.landlord_legal_documents.html#watch-demo-anchor\">tenant<\/a> without a regular pay check who applies to live in one of their properties may as well forget about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo landlord in his right mind will accept tenants who do not have a guaranteed wage,\u201d says Wilson. \u201cNo rent insurer will accept them, so that effectively makes the landlord\u2019s decision for them. No pay \u2026 nowhere to live. Welcome to the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial super-landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, have once again hit the headlines for the way they are running their enormous property empire. The Wilsons were heavily criticised by housing charities last year when it was revealed that they had evicted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/large-families-facing-eviction-by-britains-biggest-landlord.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}