Dagentle 🤍

A landlord evicted a family three months after discovering they had won £2 million in the lottery, even though they had never missed a rent payment in the six years they had lived in his property. The couple had two children and rented a modest three-bedroom house. They were quiet tenants, paid their rent on time and had never caused problems for their landlord. Everything changed when the husband won the lottery. The family kept the news private initially, but a relative mentioned it to a neighbour, and the story eventually reached the landlord. Two weeks later, he contacted them to say he wanted to increase their monthly rent by nearly 80 per cent when their tenancy came up for renewal. The husband was shocked. When he asked why the increase was so steep, the landlord admitted that he knew they could now afford it. He argued that the property was worth more than they had been paying and that he had simply never charged them the market rate…. 1/2 🧵