Letting agent turns to naming and shaming non-paying tenants
News Category: Industry News
Published: 07-Oct-2008
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A Liverpool letting agency is courting controversy by naming and shaming tenants who fail to pay their rent.
Sutton Estates is planning to put signs up outside homes in the Merseyside area which identify the occupant as having fallen behind with their payments.
The signs, which display the slogan "rent dodger lives here" and depict a man running, have already been put outside two homes with more planned in the next few months.
Neil Heffey, a partner with the firm, denied that the signs are unnecessarily cruel and was keen to stress the impact that non-payers have on his own livelihood.
He told the Liverpool Daily Post: "They can avoid us, but not their neighbours. Now, every time they walk in and out of their door, the neighbours will be laughing at them."
An online poll conducted by the newspaper found widespread support for the scheme with 72.7 per cent in favour of identifying defaulting tenants.
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