Rent Dodger Lives Here: A Landlord Resorted to Public Shaming to Oust Rent Dodger

Posted by Alex in Crime & Law, Money & Finance on July 11, 2009 at 10:15 pm

When landlord Elaine Stenson couldn’t get her tenants to pay their rent for months and ignored legal notices to vacate the premises, she decided on a very old (medieval, actually) technique: public shaming.

And while the technique worked, it sparked an outrage by some:

A letting agency in Dundee is taking radical measures to name and shame tenants who are running up rent arrears. Lease2Keys are installing “for sale”-style signs outside properties with "Rent Dodger Lives Here", emblazoned on them. [...]

Gordon MacRae of the homeless charity Shelter is outraged by the letting agents’ actions. He said: “We thought tarring and feathering went out with the middle ages. People who find themselves in rent arrears usually have multiple reasons for being in debt.

Link – via Arbroath

Do you think it’s right to publicly embarrass a rent dodger or a deadbeat?

 
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