Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

tell me something fossy, did you ever vote at a general election, and if so for whom?

i'm sure you wouldn't have liked blair - with the passing, he has developed more and more traits of the slimiest of reptiles - but then i guess jimmy reid would only have been just far enough left to satisfy your whims

gf
My friend's experience is very different. He has always regained his properties fairly easily. He get his money back as well. He pursues people for years after. If goods seized don't add up to enough, he goes after them later. No one escapes owing him money.

You mean he beats them up!!!!!!! yes I can see that, thats the type of friend you would associate with. All makes sense that now, i bet hes a tax dodger like you aswell.

last comment was just silly

however, i fully understand landlords who will not rent to those on benefits (or students!), as the downside risk is very considerable
pursuing the guys through the courts after the event is almost certainly good money after bad in 9 cases out of 10

The situation in Ukraine is very worrying. It is a car crash happening in slow motion. I have been a member of the Frontline Club for a number of years. It is a club, meeting place for foreign correspondents and especially those working on the front line in war zones. I am attending one of their events on Wednesday about the Ukraine situation. They have expert speakers and often correspondents who may have been the particular area of conflict, sometimes the previous day. The question/answer sessions after are very good as the audience usually includes well known news staff and war correspondents from all the main news organisations. I have attended events on Syria and Palestine previously, which were excellent.

Mauel,

You are correct I didn't like Blair, but I suppose a lot of his problems was down to his schooling and the morality he imbibed during that period,


Did you go to the same school?

I have only a faint memory of Jimmy Reid, and as I can't remember his stance or policies weren't and won't comment.

But I never had a political fixation, or any other type of fixation, which I was not prepared to revise.

However it is possible that he had the same numbers of votes when he was a Union leader, as the party of conners will get at the next EU elections.

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But I do wish Cameron would get of his knees and look at Merkel in the eyes.

Hey Manuel, there is a program which may be to your taste on BBC with Andrew Marr looking at an old reactionary who may be to you nature. I think his name was Oswald,

If you were alive then you could have fitted into the Green Shirts very nicely.

Cynic read Hays last post on his so called mate...... read into it......youl find hes meaning he goes after them threatening physical violence.

Still this is all a load of tosh anyway as anybody knows who runs a letting business just knows its not cost effective to chase people who have no money.

Wouldnt be suprised if this so called landlord is that chap who was featured in a documentary about 8 years back on ITV, cockney spiff blonde grey hair who used to rule with fear and a gun.

Last time I heard though a gypo family turned the books on him and castrated him.

blair went to fettes, which i think is educationally very good, and also puts out excellent rugby and golf teams ..... it's certainly one of the top scottish schools

no wonder you despise him; after all, he didn't even pretend to be from a deprived background and all that phoney downtrodden, andy-cap-image rubbish

Hays does this landlord mate of yours have a squeeky voice.

talking of gypos, there's the "gypsy king" who lives around ascot, whom the police allegedly don't dare tackle


its not cost effective to chase people who have no money = basic rule of litigation

gf
Of course he doesn't resort to violence. He just doesn't give up in chasing people for money. When people move they will pop up on a database somewhere in the future. If they have a bank account then they will be visible again very soon. He is no cockney. He is Irish from the south. He is just very tight with money and relentless in getting back money owed. If you are patient then you will get the money back.

gf
He has a very good solicitor, who specialises in chasing debts. If the person has a bank account then he monitors the balance through credit checks. When there is a sum that is useful to claim, he takes out a garneshee order which instantly freezes the account and won't unfreeze it until the money is paid.

i could easily be wrong, but i'm sure garnishee orders are not only difficult to obtain, but relate to (significant) sums that may be taken out of the country

you'ld also have to have proved the debt in court etc etc

surprisingly, solicitors do not act for free, so i concur with sticky - i do not see the economic logic, though spite and the like i do understand

Manuel,

No.

I disliked him because of some of his policies and actions, as well as the manner he was prepared to achieve them.

I would have hoped, with the cost of his education, a reasonable degree of acceptable honesty and morality would have been instilled as well as the respect and understanding of others.

You just need a judgement against the person such as a ccj. The order can also be used to take money at source from an employer. No it doesbpn't cost much and the cost can be added to the debt.

that's not the same as a garnishee - that's an attachment order
if the guy isn't working, can one then attach to his benefits?

never forget that courts will always err on the side of the tenant, and not necessarily unreasonably so either

i also wonder what condition your friend(?) keeps his properties in
many such are pretty disgusting, but then if you're getting low rents and your tenants are intrinsically a bad risk, then how much should one sensibly spend to maintain?

Bank accounts......... employers........!!!!!!! Hays you are on a different planet.

One of the reasons IDS is making housing benefit a monthly payment and a payment direct to the claimant is so that THEY WILL HAVE TO OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT FOR THE FIRST TIME.

This instead of a giro cheque. Although I am told by my local DSS buddies if the claimant insists on a non banking payment they can still get giros.!!!!!!!!!!!

Even Cyners must be able to see the folly of this 4 week direct payment to the claimant.

You mark my words watch the arrears pile up.

The court doesn't have any real descrection. It is virtually an automatic process. You present the ccj and the person's details and bank account and get the order. Once the order is granted there is automatic interest to be added while the order takes effect. I did a couple with my friend years ago. His solicitor does it noe. His solicitor once tried to talk him out of suing someone for a tiny amount like £3.50, but he went ahead. The guy who owed him paid up including the costs before it went to court. The guy paid over £100 to stop the case over £3.50.

I thought that even giros needed a bank account at the post office to cash them.