Seems Like One Can Choose Who They Rent Their Houses To?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4355534/UK-s-biggest-buy-let-landlord-bans-coloured-tenants.html

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1544929.html

For some added views to this topic.

[-Talbot-]

This year he banned single mothers, battered wives and families with children


Fergus Wilson, 70, sounds like a lovely chap.

[emmie]

lace the carpet.'
Defiant: Mr Wilson, who has a vast property empire in Kent, has since been challenged on his 'coloured' people email but stood firm and said they are 'overloaded' with them
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Defiant: Mr Wilson, who has a vast property empire in Kent, has since been challenged on his 'coloured' people email but stood firm and said they are 'overloaded' with them

In January it emerged that the property tycoon banned single mothers, battered wives, plumbers and low income earners from becoming tenants

so not just coloured people, i mean come on.

[emmie]

no idea why that pasted twice, sorry about that.

[Mamyalynne]

......and smokers.

[emmie]

and smokers, cor how has he got away with it so far, or has he?

[Mamyalynne]

Don't know and don't want to meet him to find out.

[emmie]

he sounds an absolute charmer,

[aelmpvw]

it's obvious that Fergus Wilson is a bigot but 'no plumbers'? how
curious

[emmie]

he believes they rip him off?

[wolf63]

I have a friend who has a cat. He couldn't find somewhere that he could rent because of innocent little cat. There should be laws against such things.

:-)

[Togo]

//Previously Mr Wilson faced criticism after saying he preferred to let his properties to Eastern European migrants as they were less likely to default on rent payments than Britons on benefits.//

From the O.P. link.

[-Talbot-]

How on earth does Fergus Wilson, 70,( who becomes 69 later in the article) manage to find enough tenants?

I would actually meet all his criteria for being a tenant if it weren't for my pesky kids :0/

[-Talbot-]

I agree Wolfy ... laws against cats is what we need!



(goes nto hiding)

[kvalidir]

Ghastly little man. He'll find any problems he has are caused by not treating people with respect, rather than specific groups. We have rental properties and no 'rules' as such about who can and can't rent them and we always tell people that the house is their home, to redecorate do whatever they fancy as if it were theirs. We ask them to be courteous to neighbours and not to behave like someone they wouldn't want to live next door to. We've had tenants for upwards of 10 years in the same house, and we very rarely have any issues because we treat people with respect and they oddly enough respond likewise. What a ghastly little cockroach of a man this guy is :(

[emmie]

i'm amazed he has got away with it for so long..

[ToraToraTora]

well mostly they only care about the reliability of the Burton so I assume they are banning those that are not reliable in that area.

[Baldric]

His houses, his rules in his opinion.

[anotheoldgit]

aelmpvw

/// it's obvious that Fergus Wilson is a bigot but 'no plumbers'? how
curious ///

Seems he has been watching too many adult videos.

[-Talbot-]

Adult videos from the 70's?