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I would like to know how they can afford such a new car it they are council tenants????


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I would like to know how they can afford such a new car it they are council tenants????


Many years ago, a building society said that a survey of incomes and homes revealed that 90% of owner-occupiers earned £X a year, while 75% of council tenants earned the same amount.

So a council tenant was almost as able to afford a new car as an owner-occupier was. As rents were lower than mortgage repayments, they could have a good car, even if they had nowhere off-road to park it.

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I would like to know how they can afford such a new car it they are council tenants????

Yes car credit :thumbright:

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You have to be careful doing things like this and it would not surprise me if she could sue him.

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I think they wont have a leg to stand on, cause if he has supplied the materials etc, he has every right to remove them for non payment.

This happened to a client of mine a few years ago, she had a wall built, and the man said to her in the beginning if she wasnt happy with it, then she didnt have to pay.
Well, he built this wall, and she wasnt happy with it, and to be fair to the man, the lady in question was a very fussy nervy woman, (she made my nerves bad) :roll:
So she told the man she wasnt going to pay for it, so off he went in a huff.

A few days later, she had gone out, and he went in and took the wall down, and removed every brick, she tried to take it further, but she was fighting a lost cause.

To get back to the people in question, I think they will be in trouble anyway with getting this building work, as its a council house, and they didnt get any permission from the council, and I think, they had builders before this one, and they walked off the job.

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