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Landlord blocks £1m home with skips to stop tenants leaving(American family leaving UK)
Daily Mail ^ | 18th May 2011 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 05/18/2011 5:44:38 AM PDT by Roger_Wildcat

A landlord has blocked off his plush £1m home with ten skips to stop his tenants from leaving without paying the £15,000 he claims they owe him.

Businessman Simon Everingham says he has been in a constant battle for £3,000-a-month rent since the occupants of his four-bedroom 18th century farmhouse in Markington, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, fell behind with the payments last November.

He barricaded the American tenants Dan and Christina Herring in by blocking the drive on Monday and the fight to stop them leaving continued today.

They work at the controversial Menwith Hill U.S. spy base nearby but say they now need to return to the United States after Mr Herring found a new job.

Mr Everingham, 54, fears that if the family leave the country he will never get his money back.

He claims he is owed rent arrears, legal fees and interest payments.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: block; family; landlord; tenants
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To: Roger_Wildcat

I am thinking about moving to the Isle of Man.


2 posted on 05/18/2011 5:46:57 AM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: Roger_Wildcat
They work at the controversial Menwith Hill U.S. spy base

Way to go Daily Mail. It's not a frickin' secret any more.

3 posted on 05/18/2011 5:49:52 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (To conserve energy, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off permanently.)
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To: Roger_Wildcat

financial deadbeats with top security clearances- what’s wrong with this picture?

in my day not paying your bills got your security clearance pulled...these shysters are the types who are ripe for blackmail, theft, and fraud


4 posted on 05/18/2011 5:50:47 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Roger_Wildcat

From the information presented, they owe money and I am okay with their posessions being forfeit.


5 posted on 05/18/2011 5:51:25 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: CholeraJoe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menwith_Hill


6 posted on 05/18/2011 5:55:06 AM PDT by Perdogg (0bama got 0sama?? Really, was 0sama on the golf course?)
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To: Roger_Wildcat

What’s a skip?


7 posted on 05/18/2011 5:58:40 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Roger_Wildcat

I used to work with a guy that owned a private dirt road in a wealthy area. A woman bought a new house on the road and didn’t think she should have to pay the maintenance fees. The owner asked her personally to pay and she refused. He deposited a dump truck load of gravel at the bottom of her driveway, denying her access to his road. She paid.


8 posted on 05/18/2011 5:59:15 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: swain_forkbeard

It is sort of a dump container in UK.


9 posted on 05/18/2011 6:03:21 AM PDT by Roger_Wildcat
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To: Roger_Wildcat

What’s a dump container? Is it a dumpster?


10 posted on 05/18/2011 6:05:00 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Roger_Wildcat

“controversial Menwith Hill U.S. spy base”

uh...what’s “controversial” about it?


11 posted on 05/18/2011 6:06:07 AM PDT by G Larry (I dream of a day when a man is judged by the content of his character)
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To: swain_forkbeard
Something like that
12 posted on 05/18/2011 6:08:21 AM PDT by Roger_Wildcat
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To: Roger_Wildcat

Thanks.


13 posted on 05/18/2011 6:09:50 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Roger_Wildcat

£3,000-a-month for this?
14 posted on 05/18/2011 6:13:36 AM PDT by TSgt ("Some folks just need killin'" - Sling Blade (2006))
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To: swain_forkbeard

-——What’s a skip?——

A dust bin on steroids.


15 posted on 05/18/2011 6:15:44 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: Roger_Wildcat
...he needs to rent some of the guys in the true life film "Rock and Rolla" to sort them out....to "put the boot in"

like your typical football rowdies.

16 posted on 05/18/2011 6:15:57 AM PDT by spokeshave (Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
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To: Perdogg

Great motorcycle racing there.


17 posted on 05/18/2011 6:18:51 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (Nuck off Fewt.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

As long as the fee was no secret when she bought it, good for him.

My mom and her sisters rent out their childhood home and one family never paid rent and had a slew of excuses. When they were finally evicted, they found empty boxes of expensive items that would have covered several months back rent. Some people in life are just out and out cheats and you have to squeeze a little to get them to stay strait.


18 posted on 05/18/2011 6:20:21 AM PDT by nerdwithagun (I'd rather go gun to gun then knife to knife.)
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To: Roger_Wildcat

reading the full article, owner states that the family were bad about paying on time from the beginning. you’d think he’d have learned and not renewed the lease.


19 posted on 05/18/2011 6:27:55 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
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To: silverleaf

Their security clearances was the first thing I thought of, too. They are probably making about $300,000/year together or £200,000 or roughly £17,000/month, so £3,000 rent is very doable. They are deadbeats.

BTW, a place like that in my town would probably rent for close to $4,500/month.


20 posted on 05/18/2011 6:33:39 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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