Door blimey, the landlord has moved in

FASCINATING glimpse into the world of owners and tenants on BBC1’s The Week The Landlords Moved In.

Morph Benefits Street with Homes Under The Hammer and you get the picture. For seven days, three property moguls swapped places with tenants.

So we had two men from London – looking no older than 14 and, boy, wouldn’t Maggie Thatcher have loved them – arriving by Merc in County Durham, where they had invested in cheap, easy-to-rent property.

Visiting one of their houses for the first time they found an exposed boiler on the wall and responded: “Some people like an open-looking appliance.”

Then there was a bedroom with a missing door. Their solution: “Probably easier for all of us if the tenant just fixed it himself.”

One week of rougher-than-normal living later and they had second thoughts. The show ended with them having sorted the repairs, bunging their tenant £400 for expenses incurred – and writing a letter of apology.

The man was so taken aback, he stopped reading after a few lines and started to well up. Meaning he missed the PS.

“Due to improvements, your rent will be going up.”

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