New series Is back on Channel 5 ...

http://www.channel5.com/shows/cant-pay-well-take-it-away

If you not watched Series 3 - Episode 1 http://www.channel5.com/shows/cant-pay-well-take-it-away/episodes/episode-1-829

Your see HCEO evicting a tenant who turned out to be a Letting agent and had been forging TA in some else name, so he could live there virtual rent free !

To be honest i am getting sick of these reality programs

Cant pay we will take it away

Road Wars

On benefits and Proud

ETC, ETC

The Common denominator is alway channel 5

Have we become so docile we find this crap and other peoples misfortune entertaining?

Some people find other people's misery entertaining ! If it wasn't watched, they wouldn't make it.

Some people find other people's misery entertaining ! If it wasn't watched, they wouldn't make it.

Nice one

And the number one contender is Benefit Street

Complete wth the production company supplying Fags and McDonalds to encourage participation

One of the problems the series has highlighted and even HCEO have said this needs to change.

Is when a tenant does not leave by date ordered by county court, LL have to go back to court and apply for a warrant county court bailiffs to remove a tenant.

County court bailiffs would give the tenant written notice they are coming around on such a date to take possession of the property, this could All take several months.

Not any more ...

Once LL have been granted a warrant, they can apply for HCEO to take possession and with in a matter of days tenants are evicted with in one hour of the HCEO turning up on doorstep

HCEO should have to give some kind of notice to a tenant, at the moment they don't have to give notice they are coming to evict a tenant

One of the problems the series has highlighted and even HCEO have said this needs to change.

 

Is when a tenant does not leave by date ordered by county court, LL have to go back to court and apply for a warrant county court bailiffs to remove a tenant.

 

County court bailiffs would give the tenant written notice they are coming around on such a date to take possession of the property, this could All take several months.

 

Not any more ...

 

Once LL have been granted a warrant, they can apply for HCEO to take possession and with in a matter of days tenants are evicted with in one hour of the HCEO turning up on doorstep

 

HCEO should have to give some kind of notice to a tenant, at the moment they don't have to give notice they are coming to evict a tenant

I have conflicting feelings over this.

I can see how a "bad tenant" can use the failings of a county court possession order to frustrate the wishes of the court and run rings around a "good landlord", even with masses of unpaid rent owed.

If the county court has issued the order and the tenant is ignoring it : why shouldn't the LL be able to escalate it to the High Court.

Yet, on the flip side, a "good tenant" can have come to the end of a tenancy, and be faced with homelessness, and be told by the council "you mustn't leave until actually evicted, or we won't rehouse you", so they ignore the county court's order, and then get no notice when the HCEO's arrive.

There must be a better way.

Could County Court orders not say "posession by X date, and may be escalated to the High Court 5 days after", while councils could be given the obligation to rehouse once X date has passed? (& not be creating the situation where they won't act until the person is literally turfed out into the street)

If there is a clearer picture of expectations / obligations, the LL can still be protected from the "bad tenant", while the HCEO's "swoop without warning, give an hour only" is reserved only for those who have chosen to open themselves up to it.

There will always be people who aren't able to find somewhere else to rent, and the safety net for them should be the council. Isn't the solution to make the council liable to act earlier rather than the 11th hour?

We all know how the HCEO's operate and how they define a vulnerability, with this in mind I would ask regular posters to watch one of the latest episodes of

Can't pay we'll take it away. If this doesn't tug at your hearts then nothing will.

Full Episode

• 21:00 18 Nov 2015
  
• Channel 5
  

Episode 8

Stewart and Elmore face a terrible moral dilemma when they find a critically ill toddler.

Available until 21:00 22 Dec 2016

For this please see here series 3 episode 8 http://www.channel5.com/shows/cant-pay-well-take-it-away/episodes

There really is no more to say about vulnerability after watching this episode sad as it is and that's a fact.....

That episode really was awful.