Jess Simpson turned up at a £4m Gloucestershire mansion his client was buying, he found the locks had been changed. The sitting tenant, it turned out, was hell-bent on blocking the landlord from setting up any further sales viewings, despite the fact that six months’ notice had been served.
In this corner of the Cotswolds, the average monthly rent for a similar size of property is £10k. “He verbally abused any surveyors or valuers who went near the place,” the company founder, Jess Simpson, says.
Her surveyor persisted, and when he finally gained access, things went from bad to disgusting: “He couldn’t see the carpets.