Letting agent pleaded poverty while flaunting lavish lifestyle Rory Tingle For Mailonline
A letting agent pleaded poverty to convince a court to grant more time to pay back his victim despite flaunting his lavish lifestyle online including sun-soaked trips, golf days and a £2,400 Christmas gift from his wife, MailOnline can reveal.
David Walters, 39, was ordered by a judge to pay more than £20,000 to homeowner Amy Trumpeter after pocketing her rent and leaving her house in Oldham with furniture missing and its roof fallen in after failing to carry out repairs.
Mr Walters, who lives in a £449,000 four-bedroom house in a sought-after Pennines village, won permission to pay the 40-year-old digital marketing tutor just £100 a month.
‘Using the solicitor recommended by our developer has left me with a worthless home’
Homeowners are unable to expand their families because they are stuck in contracts that they didn t understand when they purchased
13 December 2020 • 5:00am
‘Our five-year-old son sleeps in our room. His friends ask him, where is your bedroom?’ says one homeowner who is trapped by his lease
Legal advice from solicitors recommended by developers is at the heart of the leasehold scandal, trapped homeowners have warned.
Many of those affected by problems such as doubling ground rents and expiring leases were encouraged to use certain property lawyers.