In Stockton-on-Tees eviction expert Paul Shamplina is working on a case where the landlord is owed an astronomical £36,000 in rent. Angry tenants report a leak at one of Paul Ainsworth-Lord’s properties in Darwen, claiming it to be uninhabitable. In Brighton eviction lawyer Chris Sharpe has a squatter case on his hands where the landlord purchased the property with plans to develop it into flats, but squatters moved in. John Bartram is carrying out routine inspections on some of the properties he manages in Blackpool. In Darwen a tenant on benefits is struggling with a parrot, rent, and to maintain the property on her Universal Credit payments.

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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