‘Remove A Tenant’ eviction company compares UK renters to vermin
‘An eviction company has caused outrage after an advert highlighting its services compared people renting homes to vermin.
The marketing campaign by the firm Remove a Tenant, which targets residential property owners, features a piece of cheese below the caption: “Are your tenants pests?”
They offer packages to landlords and agents across Britain for as little as £50 and claim to have “significant expertise” in dealing with housing benefits claims.
Campaigners for renters complained that the company’s advert on Facebook was “beyond unacceptable” and should be taken down immediately.
They added that likening tenants to rodents was a “grim irony” given that one-in-nine rented homes has a pest problem.
The dispute came as a record number of renters have been evicted from their homes in Britain, with more than 40,000 thrown out in 2015, the latest figures show.’
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