There may be close to 2,000 evictions that won’t be in the papers. There will be no pictures of people being forced from the home their families occupied for generations, no in depth story, little empathy and worst of all, it’s something that hurts people who are entirely innocent.
What we are talking about is the ‘move out’ letters people are getting from banks that appoint receivers and in particular the ones that are becoming commonplace when rent receivers are appointed.
The ‘broke landlord’ is unlikely to receive much in the way of empathy from anybody, this is why receivers are being sent in on investment properties rapidly while repossessions and executions on family homes are so much slower to occur, but that misses the point, we have made one process ‘slow’ to protect families, while allowing the other to be quick to ‘get landlords’ but really all we are doing is ‘getting families’ who are affected and showing them an entirely different duty of care.
It isn’t that an investment property doesn’t house a family the same as a …