{"id":140305,"date":"2023-11-15T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/theyve-attacked-families-with-cordless-drills-the-man-taking-on-rogue-landlords\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T05:15:51","slug":"theyve-attacked-families-with-cordless-drills-the-man-taking-on-rogue-landlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/theyve-attacked-families-with-cordless-drills-the-man-taking-on-rogue-landlords\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019ve attacked families with cordless drills\u2019: the man taking on rogue landlords"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBen Reeve-Lewis, of Safer Renting, has seen criminal landlords switch off electricity and play \u2018mind games\u2019 to force tenants outBen Reeve-Lewis has been a scourge of rogue landlords for more than three decades. The co-founder of Safer Renting, a housing law advocacy service made up of a crack team who take on criminal landlords, has seen tenants\u2019 lives made hell by the most unscrupulous proprietors.\u201cWe\u2019ve had landlords pulling guns on tenants and attacking families with cordless drills and crowbars,\u201d he said. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Ben Reeve-Lewis, of Safer Renting, has seen criminal landlords switch off electricity and play \u2018mind...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-AuZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":140315,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-was-afraid-of-him-renting-from-one-of-londons-worst-landlords\/","url_meta":{"origin":140305,"position":0},"title":"\u2018I was afraid of him\u2019: renting from one of London\u2019s worst landlords","date":"November 15, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Couple who were tenants of Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool offer cautionary tale of how rogue landlords can leave trail of miseryConfiscate properties from rogue landlords, says MPThe paw prints on the bed and cat faeces on the floor were bad signs, but Jess Pope, 27, and Nathan Francis, 31,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":140313,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/confiscate-properties-from-rogue-landlords-says-senior-labour-mp\/","url_meta":{"origin":140305,"position":1},"title":"Confiscate properties from rogue landlords, says senior Labour MP","date":"November 15, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Clive Betts says seizure threat would create \u2018significant deterrent\u2019 among those who treat fines as business cost\u2022 \u2018I was afraid of him\u2019: renting from one of London\u2019s landlordsRental homes should be confiscated from private landlords who repeatedly break the rules and exploit tenants, the head of the Commons housing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":84366,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/sex-for-rent-the-rogue-landlords-who-offer-a-free-room-in-return-for-favours\/","url_meta":{"origin":140305,"position":2},"title":"Sex for rent \u2026 the rogue landlords who offer a \u2018free\u2019 room in return for \u2018favours\u2019","date":"April 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r As the housing crisis deepens, words such as \u2018intimacy\u2019 and \u2018benefits\u2019 are starting to appear in the to-let columnsTo the unaware, the true meaning of some of the phrases used on the ads for tenants could be missed. 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