By James Simons-
Landlord Robert Crow, is 2020’s most depressed and incompetent landlord in the Uk. He is calling for a bright 2021.
Mr Crow, 71 from Southend On Sea In Essex, has lost three of his flats repossessed by mortgage lenders and resides in utter darkness after his electricity was taken off by his energy supply. The vilified former landlord provided accommodation for the homeless without insisting on I.D in many cases, and ran a property deemed not fit for purpose by Southend Borough Council and the courts.
During one visit by The Eye Of Media.Com in 2019, we found abandoned food in his fridge which was becoming mouldy, and his bathroom was filled with so much junk that it would be unthinkable to imagine anybody using it to have a bath or take a shower.
Crow has been in more court cases this year than many people have had dinners, as he appealed several convictions in vain and admits to being scared of 2021. He told The Eye Of Media.Com: ”I don’t know what next year has for me. My life was a nightmare even before lockdown ever came into the picture, now it looks like a disaster . I am really worried about the future, and battle with uncontrollable panic attacks”.
”I was hoping to at least be able to leave something concrete for my children, but the actions of the Southend Borough Council has meant me losing almost all my property. They have damaged my credit rating so that I will be lucky to get anywhere now”
The Essex landlord who formerly accommodated the homeless, has seen all his rent benefit stopped for over a year due to breaches of HMO regulations. The absence of funds caused his mortgage payments to crash, leaving him with no option but to loose his properties.
Clogged up kitchen Image: Kay Martins
Messy Kitchen is attraction for bacteria Image: Kay Martins
Convicted of more than £80k in fines from various courts over a span of 4 years, the Essex landlord has appealed almost almost all his convictions but failed in everyone of them. His latest criminal charge is for a Criminal behavioural Order (CBO) after several of his tenants were involved in multiple criminal incidences, including drug dealing, stabbing and fighting.
Mr Crow who is still contesting the charges is holed up in his own property with two Russians who have lived under his roof for well over a year, free of charge. The landlord has expressed fear he could catch the coronavirus from either or both of the pair, who mix with their family more than once a week and share a narrow part of his four story building in Devereux Road.
Unhappy
In lockdown era, mr. Crow is an unhappiness has become worse. He managed to earn some cash from the sale of one of his repossessed properties, but is struggling to rent a property anywhere in the country because of a highly tarnished credit history.
I can’t look forward to 2021 at all because I can’t see anything positive in it at the moment. I have been persecuted so badly, the only thing most of my enemies are waiting for is to see me dead. It doesn’t make sense that I am being taking to court for a criminal behavioural order committed by other people, since when were individuals held to account for other people’s conduct?”
The Criminal Behavioural Order against mr.Crow prohibited him from having people at his property apart from close family members and a partner. But when Essex police turned up at his property in 2019, they found a number of residents there, living rent free. The former landlord’s money had been stopped by then, so he had only a handful of tenant’s present at the time.
A brief relationship he had with another female landlord ended during the lockdown, leaving him single.