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＜更新日時＞ 06月06日（火） 02:39
A single mum-of-five has spent her life working hard to make enough money to give her children the kind of life she never had growing up.
Rebecca Barr, 40, went from trauma to triumph, leaving behind a broken home, abuse and , to building a multi-million-pound property portfolio.
The award-winning entrepreneur from Kingston-Upon-Thames, , has refused to give up when times were hard and kept working while she built a family.
Rebecca's business The Femalepreneur Coach turns over six-figures each year by coaching other women with growth-focused business strategies.
Rebecca Barr (pictured), t 40, went from trauma to triumph, leaving behind a broken home, abuse and homelessness, to building a multi-million-pound property portfolio
The award-winning entrepreneur from Kingston-Upon-Thames, London, has refused to give up when times were hard and kept working while she built a family
She gave birth to her fifth child last year, and being a single mother of five doesn't stop Rebecca as she balances both her personal life with business seemingly with ease.
Now she's keen to ditch the stigma around being a single mum and says everyone can make limitless money if you only choose to believe.
She said: 'Women can make their own money story and we can all become wildly wealthy on our own terms, no matter what our personal life looks like.
'My childhood was filled with grief, abuse, violence and homelessness, but I knew I was destined for more.
'I refused to believe that was meant to be my life, so I worked really hard to turn it around.
'I haven't had an easy ride in my adult years either and haven't had the best luck with men.
'I have five wonderful children by three different fathers and there's nothing wrong with it.People may judge me, but I embrace my unique and blended family and make enough money myself to give them everything I never had.'
Rebecca lost her dad when she was just four years old. A Naval Officer, he died aged 25 whilst serving abroad.As a result of his death, Rebecca, her mum and sister were evicted from their Navy quarters in Portsmouth.
Rebecca's business The Femalepreneur Coach turns over six-figures each year by coaching other women with growth-focused business strategies
She gave birth to her fifth child last year, and being a single mother of five doesn't stop Rebecca as she balances both her personal life with business seemingly with ease
Now she's keen to ditch the stigma around being a single mum and says everyone can make limitless money if you only choose to believe
She said: 'We were forced into an unsettled life that we never expected.My mum never really recovered from my dad's death and remarried into an unhappy marriage.
'I became witness to dysfunctional and abusive behaviour, including violence, t sexual abuse and gambling.'
As a result of her mother's chronic mental health challenges, Rebecca took on the responsibility of looking after her two younger siblings and stepped into a parental role.
She said: 'I had to watch my mother's decline including multiple suicide attempts and felt extreme pressure to look after her and my brother and sister.
'I can remember Mum telling me not to expect her at the school gates, as she was planning to end her life.'
Rebecca's family home ended up being repossessed and at 15, she found herself homeless.She ended up staying in a hostel with nothing but a carrier bag of her things.
She said: 'I eventually went to live with my aunt, but we moved about so many times I lost count. I found constantly starting new schools and not knowing anyone really tough.
'I remember thinking how I never wanted to repeat all this toxicity if I ever had my own family, so I took on three jobs - working in a bakery, glass collecting at a social club, and babysitting.'
Rebecca lost her dad when she was just four years old.A Naval Officer, he died aged 25 whilst serving abroad
As a result of his death, Rebecca, her mum and sister were evicted from their Navy quarters in Portsmouth
As a result of her mother's chronic mental health challenges, Rebecca took on the responsibility of looking after her two younger siblings and stepped into a parental role
Rebecca was 16, juggling three jobs and studying to finish her exams.Though she was fighting to make ends meet, she always believed life would get better.
Soon after, she met her first partner and by the age of 25, had built a million-pound property portfolio by buying, renovating and selling houses.
She said: 'It felt like I'd suddenly become a property developer overnight and Sarah Beeny became my idol.'
Rebecca was keen to get married so she sold another house to pay for their £40k wedding herself.
She said: 'I wanted to live the dream and have a huge white wedding.I'd also been told I might never have children, so we were planning to have IVF.
'But our marriage wasn't meant to be. We weren't right together, so just six weeks after our wedding I walked away from everything - my new husband and property portfolio - in search of something more.'
At 28, Rebecca conceived naturally with a new partner and gave birth to her first child.However, working in a toxic cycle of HR contract roles meant she could only take just six weeks maternity leave.
Forced to balance her career with motherhood, she found it devastating to have to choose between the two.
Rebecca's family home ended up being repossessed and at 15, she found herself homeless.She ended up staying in a hostel with nothing but a carrier bag of her things
Rebecca was 16, juggling three jobs and studying to finish her exams.Though she was fighting to make ends meet, she always believed life would get better
Rebecca reconnected with her mum who relocated to support her daughter and her family, but soon after suffered a stroke.
Rebecca said: 'It was such a shock.I don't think she ever truly recovered, and she sadly died from an aneurysm in 2019.
'Afterwards, I was grieving and balancing my work with parental responsibilities, with no support from my employers.
'I decided to go to university as a mature student to focus on building the best future possible for my family.I graduated with a degree in HR whilst pregnant with my second daughter.'
Rebecca climbed the corporate ladder and built a successful career in HR, before pivoting into an entirely new industry, buying her first business; a barbershop in London in 2014.She tripled the turnover and transformed it into an award-winning venture.
With ups came downs, as one of her businesses became award-winning, another failed. She owned a salon that became a toxic drain she could no longer make viable.
She said: 'It was a valuable lesson in money, energy and letting go that I still use to this day in my current business.'
Soon after, she met her first partner and by the age of 25, had built a million-pound property portfolio by buying, renovating and selling houses
Rebecca was keen to get married so she sold another house to pay for their £40k wedding herself
At 28, Rebecca conceived naturally with a new partner and a{T gave birth to her first child.However, working in a toxic cycle of HR contract roles meant she could only take just six weeks maternity leave
Forced to balance her career with motherhood, she found it devastating to have to choose between the two
Rebecca turned her attention to coaching and used her qualifications in HR and organisational psychology to support and elevate others.
Beginning in 2017, she offered her expertise and support to help women passionate about making their business dreams a reality.
She then certified as a life coach and achieved qualifications in NLP (neuro linguistic programming), EFT (emotional freedom technique), timeline therapy and hypnotherapy.
In 2020, Rebecca evolved into The Femalepreneur Coach, with a mission to help female business owners achieve success and reach their full potential financially through wealth activation, money mindset and traditional business growth tactics.
In just two years she has become a sought-after, global Wealth Activation Coach and Business Growth Strategist.
Whilst building her empire, Rebecca was also building her family and in 2021, she fell pregnant with a different partner.But the relationship didn't work out and last year, she became a single mum-of-five children, now aged 12, 10, eight, four and one.
She said: 'I have had terrible relationships with men but am ever the optimist and believe I will meet the right man soon.'
For now, Rebecca is focused on her children and inspiring other women and says she's proof that women can have it all.
She said: 'Despite all I've been through, I'm a strong, successful woman and I love nothing more than helping others achieve limitless success too.Anything is possible with the right mindset!'
＜更新日時＞ 06月05日（月） 20:26
The call came on a Saturday morning last month.I always knew it would. It had been lurking in the background as I tried to carry on, make plans. I knew that it would all end, swiftly. Not with a whimper but with a bang.
I'd been told there was a viewing planned at the cottage I've rented since 2018.It's been up for sale since April. I learned it was going to be put on the market in February, when the landlady turned up with little warning, an estate agent in tow.
The agent started taking photographs of every room and my courtyard garden. Without asking first.Or even talking to me. Because who am I, other than a lowly private renter, unworthy of even a kindly 'Good morning'.
The viewing was scheduled for 11.30 am (there had been a few). I walked my dogs early, then raced up a steep hill to make sure I was back in time to tidy.
At 11.45, my mobile rang.It was the landlady. 'The viewing is cancelled but there is another one at half past one.'
I dared to express my dismay, my upset at the constant intrusions. Yet another no-show; another day when I was unable to do as I pleased.
Liz Jones, 64, (pictured) opens up about being given two months' notice to leave her rented cottage
'Right!' the landlady snapped.'I'm serving you with a Section 21. You have two months' notice to move out as of Monday.' I crumpled. Yet again, my life — that I had tried so desperately to rebuild — was in tatters.
No-fault evictions, known as Section 21 notices, enable landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason or establishing 'fault' on the part of the tenant.
No matter how long you've lived there (for me, eVDEn EvE nakliyAT four years) or how much you've spent on the place (in my case £59,000 — I cashed in my pension and got a loan to pay for everything from a new kitchen to underfloor heating, new bathroom and white goods) you can be summarily dismissed.
How is this allowed?We are protected at work if we are sick or lose our jobs, but when we rent a home — and surely a home is integral to our health, productivity and sense of belonging — we can be thrown to the sharks.
Surely, there is more to being a landlord than having me pay your mortgage when I have paid the rent on time and looked after your property?
A lifeline was dangled in front of our poor, cold noses last month when Michael Gove — since appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities under Rishi Sunak — voiced his support for Boris Johnson's commitment to ending no-fault evictions.
Mr Gove knows as well as anyone that it isn't the workshy who end up renting.After all, divorce is a common factor. The Government won't get growth from a workforce that wonders if getting out of bed is worth the bother.
His speech was music to the ears of the more than four million private renters in the UK.
The misery, the uncertainty.Goodness only knows how families with school-age children cope with the disruption, the endless reading of meters and changing of suppliers, the redirection of post, the changing of council tax and on and on and on … It's all so unbelievably stressful.
I can't help but suspect this gross abuse of human rights has never been at the top of the political agenda because the vast majority of politicians, civil servants, EVden evE nakLiYAT newspaper columnists and editors own their own homes; or even two of them.
The writer (pictured) says renters can be 'thrown to the sharks' and swiftly dismissed.Liz says she has rented nine properties in her adult life, and has been evicted four times
The problem doesn't enter their brains and, if it does, they assume people who rent are either feckless or the very young, who will soon claw their way on to the property ladder.These are the sort of people who write pieces along the lines of 'What's with the annual DFS adverts on TV? Why do people buy a new sofa every Christmas? I inherited mine!' (That was an actual column.)
I have rented nine properties in my adult life and been evicted four times — and the older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
Times are bad for Generation Rent — the poor 20 and 30-somethings who are unable to scrape together a deposit, or afford a mortgage.But to be in your 60s and to be renting, as I am, after a lifetime of hard work, is infinitely worse.
Why? Because, at 64, I am perilously close to retirement.
I did manage to get a mortgage offer before the current crisis but, even then, the rate I was offered was nearly 5 per cent and the maximum term I was allowed was 12 years.There is no hope of a partner on the horizon to split bills with.
I have sympathy for homeowners whose rates have just gone up, but renters aren't immune, as there are no caps on what we pay. Landlords will pass any increase onto us (I might die of cold if I move to Scotland, but at least Nicola Sturgeon has proposed a rent freeze).
Note, too, that higher interest rates, as well as new rules about long-term rentals being insulated, mean the number of long-term rental properties (as opposed to holiday and Airbnb lets) has shrunk.
This led to a report last month of a rise in London of 'blind bidding' — people leasing rental properties without first viewing them.There are 49 per cent fewer new listings than in 2019, reports Hamptons estate agency, and the average rent in a newly-let home in Britain is up 6.9 per cent on September last year.
I owned my own home from 1983 until 2016. I've never not had a good job and I've never taken a day off sick.But in 2016 I lost my home — a Georgian mini mansion, with floor-to-ceiling windows and a lawn that swept down to a river.
I put in stone floors, salvaged from a derelict church, railings … I can't go on, it's too upsetting.
When I was made bankrupt in 2015, I was forced to put it on the market for £400,000 less than I paid for it.(A long story: there's a memoir, if you're interested.) Suffice to say, HMRC hate high-earning single females, as do builders, family, neighbours, insolvency lawyers.
As a bankrupt, my rental choices were limited. I found a small house nearby, just outside the market town of Richmond in North Yorkshire, for £1,700 a month.The search was made extra hard given the fact I (then) had four cats and three dogs. Most rental properties, even those in rural areas with ghastly swirly carpets, stipulate: 'Sorry, no pets.'
In 2020, a white paper was drawn up to allow renters to keep dogs and cats, given that they are, after all, family members, and less likely than toddlers to scribble on walls, but it's not yet on the statute books.
The wonderful charity Dogs On The Streets (DOTS), which helps the pets of the homeless, reveals the number of pets given up due to being banned from rentals has rocketed: 'We get 20 to 30 calls a day from tenants unable to keep their pets.'
So I went with this house, but was told: 'Sorry, it comes furnished.' I had a lot of furniture.Conran sofas. A 1920s desk. An Eero Saarinen marble table. I was your typical used-to-live-in-Islington high-end cliché. So I begged and said: 'Well, can't you put your stuff in storage?' I was also mindful of my muddy dogs, scratchy cats, but it was no.
The landlady turned up with little warning and
evdEN eVe NaKLiYAt an estate agent in tow - my home was up for sale
So I put all my furniture in storage and gave my brand-new appliances — a Smeg range cooker, Miele dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer — to a friend.But storage proved so expensive that, one by one, I had to sell everything on eBay.
Imagine my shock when the landlord, a year or EvdEN EvE NAKLiYAt so later, said they'd bought a holiday home in Devon and were coming for their furniture. (This is why people buy DFS sofas.)
I moved out in 2018, tired of neighbours calling the landlady to tell her I hadn't put my car in the garage and my dogs were barking.
That same year, I rented a one-bedroom flat in North London at more than £3,000 a month — to save on hotel bills for work.
Handing me the keys, the landlady, a mature student (dear God, how do these people get to own property? If you have any type of questions pertaining to where and how you can utilize evDEN EvE NaKLiYat, you can call us at our own web-site. ), pointed out that I would 'need to buy expensive saucepans' as the hob was induction, instructed me not 'to let water pour on the floorboards' in the kitchen and not to let the front door slam.
Or wear jeans on the sofa as 'they wear it out'.
When I later complained about the filth of the communal areas, which only I vacuumed, she said: 'Oh, that's a surprise, as apart from you, every flat is owner-occupied.'
She kept emailing me — never, ever rent via OpenRent, where you deal with the landlord direct — saying: 'I've read you have collies.They are not in the flat, are they? No pets allowed.' I kept assuring her they were safely in Yorkshire. She enlisted an upstairs neighbour to spy on me.
I was again evicted, for no reason, EvdEN eVe naKLiyat in 2019, having spent a fortune moving books, magazines, clothes and my desk 250 miles.(I know the names of the nice men at Watson Removals; I even know the birthdays of a couple of them.)
She said the flat was being sold but, a few weeks later, I saw it up for rent again on Rightmove at an escalated price.
She wanted to withhold some of my deposit as the cheap-looking fairy lights were no longer on the balcony.They broke!
The writer (pictured) says renters close to retirement are 'infinitely worse' off than those in their 20s or 30s
Then there was the place in Clerkenwell.I had to give notice when I lost my job but the two male landlords, who lived in Hong Kong, made me stick to a six-month notice period, when they could have said: 'OK, if we can rent it faster you can leave'.
And they told me to vacuum my radiators as they were making a 'mark' on the walls.(Mad!)
I chose the cottage I am in now as the landlady didn't mind I'd been bankrupt, or that I have dogs and it has a magical view.
When I moved in, it had no heating, laminate flooring and a fuse box that was 26 years old.The washing machine broke and there was no tumble dryer, though the lease bans putting up a washing line. The roof and windows still leak. Exiting the front door on a rainy day is like braving Niagara Falls (I have videos).
I know it was idiotic to spend tens of thousands of pounds of my own money on it, but I work from home and needed heating.The bathroom was mouldy and having a hot bath is my one luxury.
In all, I spent £59,000. I updated the heating with a new boiler and radiators upstairs and replaced the fusebox. I put in flagstones, I had the chimney swept, installed new blinds and shelving and I spent more than £12,000 on a beautiful Neptune kitchen.
I know.People warned me not to do it up, as I have no legal redress. But my home is so important to me: I get depressed in a dump.
And so here I am, terrified of being homeless, again. I went to look at another rental the other week. The woman opened the door and a huge Labrador emerged, when her ad had stipulated 'only one small dog considered for an escalated rent'.
'How many dogs do you have?' she asked me, craning to look at the two (out of now four) who had come along for the ride.Me: 'Um.'
She showed me round and it was lovely. 'It will come unfurnished.' I was glad, but slightly galled that I'd also given away my £4,000 Vispring bed, purchased from Selfridges in sunnier days, as my current cottage is so small it wouldn't fit through the door.
I couldn't work out the layout of the house.'Ah,' she said, unlocking the door to the loveliest room, dual aspect, with views of a river. 'We will be locking our furniture in here. This is our forever home. We'll be back in two years. Which is when you'll have to move out.'
Aaaaargh!!!!!
＜更新日時＞ 06月05日（月） 19:22
Kanye Wests' ex-wife was spotted wearing a pair of classic lucrative contract with Adidas was terminated.
The 42-year-old mum-of-four made her feelings known when she shared the photo wearing Adidas' competition, alongside her son Saint, on the same day her baby daddy's agreement with the athleticwear juggernaut was torn up due to his anti-Semitic comments.
The rapper's $220million annual deal with the German sports brand, which is worth $1.5billion in total, was terminated as a result of his controversial behaviour.
According to
Kanye Wests' ex-wife Kim Kardashian was spotted wearing a pair of classic Vans shoes (pictured) on Tuesday - the same day his lucrative contract with Adidas was terminated
The rapper's $220million annual deal with the German sports brand, which is worth $1.5billion in total, was terminated as a result of his controversial behaviour (Kim pictured in another pair of Vans)
At his concert at the Kia Forum in California on Monday night Harry Styles was also spotted in a pair of Vans, replacing his usual Adidas x Gucci Gazelles.
Styles, 28, has worn the Adidas shoes for every show on his world tour since June because he wears primarily Gucci clothing on stage but fans noticed when he stepped out in Vans the day before Ye's Adidas contract ended.
Adidas announced that they would be terminating their partnership in a statement, with the sportswear maker having put it's deal with Ye under review.
They claim that they made repeated efforts earlier this month 'to privately resolve the situation'.
At his concert at the Kia Forum in California on Monday night Harry Styles was also spotted in a pair of Vans, replacing his usual Adidas x Gucci Gazelles
Adidas announced that they would be terminating their partnership in a statement, with the sportswear maker having put it's deal with Ye under review (pictured with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian)
German sporting goods behemoth Adidas has terminated its partnership with Kanye West amid controversial behavior from the American rapper and designer. A statement posted in the media section of its website called his comments 'unacceptable, hateful and dangerous'
German sporting goods behemoth Adidas has ended its partnership with Kanye West amid controversial behavior from the American rapper and designer
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Adidas' share price dropped more than 50 percent over the past six months, and evdEN evE naKliYat is expected to plunge even further in the wake of the announcement.
Kanye's Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted, eVDEN EvE naKliYAt with the social media platforms saying they removed his posts that online users condemned as anti-Semitic.
In a statement Adidas said: EVDeN Eve nakLiYaT 'Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech.
'Ye's recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company's values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.'
＜更新日時＞ 06月05日（月） 16:45
Confusion reigned at 's school in on Thursday after the principal said it was closing permanently, only for parents hours later to email all and say classes would continue.
Reports then emerged that the teachers had quit - following the string of controversial and antisemitic rants its founder has made in recent weeks.
It was not clear how many teachers had quit, and how many remained, but the chaos comes amid following his tweets.
Donda Academy, in the Simi Valley, is highly secretive, with parents signing a non-disclosure agreement to keep the school's location secret and agreeing to say nothing about it.
There are believed to be around 100 students from pre-K to 12th grade paying $15,000 a year, and 16 teachers.
On Wednesday, the principal, Jason Angell, sent an email to parents explaining that West, 45, had decided to close the school 'effective immediately,' with classes being cancelled as of Thursday.
Around midnight on Wednesday, however, parents at the exclusive Christian school received the following morning.
'Join us tomorrow morning in worship for the return of Donda Academy,' the email read.
'With the help of our parents and EVDEN eVE NakliYaT community, we are back and returning with a vengeance!'
Kanye West's exclusive Christian school announced it would be closing for the remainder of the 2022-23 school year as the rapper continues to face fallout for his repeated anti-semitic comments
Students at West's Donda Academy wear black Balenciaga uniforms designed by West himself.Above, Celtics basketball player Jaylen Brown pays a visit to the school. Brown this week said he was severing ties with West
A school in the Simi Valley, just north of Los Angeles, which is believed to be the Donda Academy
West returned to Instagram this week after being banned earlier this month, On Thursday the rapper said on Instagram that he 'lost 2 billion dollars in one day' in an apparent reference to the flock of brands which have dropped him in the wake of his bigoted behavior.
This week Adidas dropped his Yeezy shoe line - a deal which was worth $1.5billion - with Gap, Footlocker, TJ Maxx, and Balenciaga all following suit and cutting ties with the rapper.
Donda Academy's closure and sudden reopening come just two months after it started up in August.
The school did not respond to DailyMail.com requests for comment.
The exclusive pre-K through 12 school - named after West's mother, Donda - is located in a secret location in the Simi Valley just north of Los Angeles, and charges $15,000 per student.About half the student body receives financial aid and scholarships, according to The Post.
There are reportedly a number of celebrities' children in attendance - including R&B singer Keyshia Cole's son Daniel - and the school is well known for its high-powered basketball team.Rising star Robert Dillingham, 17, plays for the school, and NBA players like Celtics player Jaylen Brown have made appearances at the school.
Students wear all black Balenciaga uniforms and Yeezy shoes designed by West himself.
Despite running the school, West's children do not attend, and he has clashed with Kim Kardashian on the matter.
West previously complained on social media that Kim wouldn't agree to send their four children for '[two] days at one school, three days at another.'
As of September the school had not yet been accredited, according to the , which means colleges might not accept diplomas from the school.
The Donda Academy website states that the school's goal is 'to provide the youth with the passion, purpose and spiritual foundations they need to thrive in tomorrow's world.'
The curriculum has a strong focus on Christianity, the arts, and math and science.Students can take parkour as a physical activity, and the school has a strong high school basketball program.
The school enrolls about 100 students and 16 teachers, with a number of students being the children of celebrities
The exclusive pre-K through 12 Donda Academy is located in a secret location in the Simi Valley just north of Los Angeles, and charges $15,000 per student
Parents sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep the school's location secret
The curriculum has a strong focus on Christianity, the arts, and math and science.Students can take parkour as a physical activity, and the school has a strong high school basketball program
Angell emailed parents on Wednesday announcing the school's closure for the remainder of the school year.
'At the discretion of our founder, Donda Academy will close for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year effective immediately, he wrote.
'There is no school tomorrow [Thursday].'
Angell noted that the school's leadership would help parents and students transition into their new school, and added that the Donda would begin 'afresh' in September 2023.
On Wednesday the school's basketball team was booted from the The Scholastic Play-By-Play Classics tournament, saying West's 'words and actions violate our values as a company and a country, and what we seek to ensure at all of our events - a spirit of diversity, sportsmanship, inclusion, equity and mutual respect.'
Representatives for the tournament expressed their remorse that West's words cost his students the experience of participating in the coveted high school basketball tournament.
'While we are firm in our reasoning for this decision, it does not diminish our heartache and regret for evdEn EvE NAkliYaT Donda's hardworking athletes who will lose out the most as a result of Kanye's actions,' the school added.
'Unfortunately, we cannot in good conscience host an organization founded and directed by Mr.West at our events.'
TJ Maxx has become the latest company to sever ties with Kanye West in the wake of his vile anti-Semitic outbursts (pictured on Wednesday at a bagel shop in Los Angeles before arriving at the Skechers HQ)
He was seen near a parking lot before he was escorted out of Sketchers HQ
TJ Maxx, whose CEO is Ernie Herrman (pictured in 2014) follows Gap and Foot Locker in no longer stocking any Yeezy merchandise in its stores
On Wednesday, the rapper was embarrassingly escorted out of Skechers headquarters after showing up unannounced to pitch his Yeezy brand a day after being dropped by Adidas and having his songs banned by Peloton.
Ye was taken out by two 'executives' according to a statement released by the company Wednesday afternoon.
said in a statement: 'Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation. Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West.
'We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate anti-Semitism or any other form of hate speech.The Company would like to again stress that West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices.'
West may have faced additional opposition if he had gotten a preapproved sit-down meeestimates comes from real estate, cash, his music catalog, and a 5 percent stake in ex-wife Kim Kardashian's shapewear firm, Skims.
But as corporations around the world break off deals with Ye, music streaming service said it would not remove the rapper's music unless his label requested it.
Recent anti-Semitic remarks made by the rapper are 'just awful comments,' and would have warranted removal from Spotify for violating its policies if they had been on a podcast or recording, Spotify chief Daniel Ek said.
However, music from the artist now known as Ye does not violate anti-hate policies, and any anti-Semitic comments he has made cannot be found on the music streaming platform.
'It's really just his music, and his music doesn't violate our policy,' said Ek, adding, 'It's up to his label, if they want to take action or not.'
Universal Music's Def Jam label, which owns the copyright to West's recordings from 2002 through 2016, and continued distributing his releases until last year, issued a statement condemning Ye's remarks, saying: 'There is no place for anti-Semitism in our society'.But the label has not asked for the removal of Ye's recordings, many of which are critically acclaimed works.
Kanye West has seen several high profile and lucrative partnerships with major brands severed amid the backlash from anti-Semitic remarks
Ye has refused to walk back his remarks, blaming Jewish people for EVdEN EVe nAkLiyAT his mental health struggles in a recent podcast
A pair of Yeezy shoes are seen in a Foot Locker store on the day Adidas terminated its partnership with the American rapper and designer Kanye West, now known as Ye, in Garden City, New York, U.S. If you have any sort of inquiries concerning where and how you can use evDeN EVE naKLiYat, you could call us at our own website. , October 25, 2022
＜更新日時＞ 06月05日（月） 13:52
A second key figure in the alleged plot to smuggle technology from America to Russia has been revealed - and he is another suburban husband who was apparently living a double life.
Vadim Yermolenko, 41 lives in a luxury $1m, four-bedroom, four-bathroom home with his glamorous wife and their young children, DailyMail.com can disclose.
His identity can now be disclosed after it emerged that another accused member of the conspiracy, , runs an online craft store in with his wife.
Yarmolenko and Brayman, who were indicted Tuesday then released after posting bail, allegedly helped supply Russia with technology that can be used in nuclear and hypersonic weapons.The scheme was part of a sophisticated plot orchestrated by the country's security services, prosecutors say.
The elaborate smuggling network, which spanned several continents, has been likened to the plot of a wild espionage drama.
Vadim Yermolenko lives with his wife Diana and their children in a $1m home in New Jersey.Prosecutors say he played a key role in a plot to smuggle millions of dollars worth of high-tech weapons components from the United States to Russia
Away from Yermolenko's alleged role in the shadowy 'Serniya Network,' which is controlled by spymasters in Moscow, he maintains the image of a loving family man in a leafy middle-class suburb of million-dollar homes.
He lives with his wife, Diana, and their three young children in a desirable four-bedroom, four-bathroom home in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
Yermolenko, a U.S. citizen, and Brayman, an Israeli citizen born in Ukraine, are named in an indictment which was unsealed Tuesday when both appeared in court charged over the plot.
Yermolenko, represented by a federal defender, was released after posting $500,000 bail, using his family home as security.Brayman was also released on $150,000 bail and subject to electronic monitoring. Both men were told to surrender their passports.
Yermolenko lives in a $1 million New Jersey home, pictured on Wednesday, with his family
Diana (left), who is not charged with any crime, regularly shares pictures of the family's life on social media.Prosecutors allege that behind Vadim's image as a successful businessman, he was part of an international plot to supply Russia with sanctioned technology that can be used in nuclear weapons
Yermolenko's glamorous wife, Diana, eVden EvE NAKliYaT regularly shares snaps of their holidays abroad, including to Russia, on social media, along with photos of her with her husband, who's accused of smuggling sanctioned weapons equipment from the United States into Russia.
Yermolenko and his wife are both from Russia, according to their social media profiles.
Diana's Facebook and Instagram posts paint them as a loving family who enjoy a jet-set lifestyle, holidaying in sun-soaked destinations across Europe and the U.S.The couple, who married in July 2011, also take frequent trips to St Petersburg.
Diana, from Mirny in Russia's Sakha Republic, regularly posts proud photos of her family, including pictures of her eldest daughter figure skating.
Yermolenko's profile says he is the founder of Divatek, a New Jersey-based company which sells cell phones and other electronic devices.
He says he studied at Dante Alighieri, in St Petersburg, an 'international society founded to promote Italian language and culture throughout the world. If you have any questions relating to where and how you can use EVDen evE nAKLiYAt, you could contact us at the site. '
But prosecutors allege, that behind the image of a family man and successful entrepreneur, Yermolenko helped the Serniya Network 'acquire sensitive military and dual use technologies for the Russian military, evDen evE naKliYAt defense sector and research institutions.'
Yermolenko's family life in a pleasant American suburb can be revealed after it emerged his co-defendant, Alexey Brayman, pictured with his Russian wife, Daria, allegedly used his home in New Hampshire to ship the technology to Russia
With help from Yermolenko, Brayman allegedly received the equipment at his home in New Hampshire (pictured), before it was sent on to Europe and eventually into Russia
Vadim Yermolenko (left) and Alexey Brayman (right) were allegedly part of a plot led by security services in Moscow to smuggle millions of dollars worth of weapons technology into Russia
Dual use technology is equipment like semiconductors and other sophisticated instruments that can be used in both civilian and military products.It is key to maintaining , which has cost the lives of thousands of civilians - and massively depleted Moscow's stocks of weaponry.
Yermolenko is accused of playing a key role in getting equipment worth millions of dollars to fellow family man Brayman, who then shipped it to Europe before it was smuggled into Russia.
Yermolenko deployed deceptive and fraudulent tactics to open shell companies and bank accounts in order to mask the reason for EVdeN eVe nakLiYaT the purchases and destination of the products, it is claimed.
With Brayman, he would alter, forge, EvDEn EVE nakLiYAT and destroy shipping documents, invoices and other business records to unlawfully export items from the United States.
The men allegedly worked with Vadim Konoshchenok, an FSB agent who smuggled some of the items from Estonia into Russia
The indictment against Yermolenko says he even provided his wife's signature 'to use on IRS documents for company applications and applications to open U.S.Bank Accounts.'
Diana Yermolenko is not charged with any crimes.
The equipment that was trafficked in the conspiracy is sensitive and highly-regulated. The U.S. and other countries have imposed strict sanctions designed to prevent Russia from obtaining such 'critical western technology.'
Yermolenko allegedly worked with a Russia-based defendant called Boris Livshits, a 52-year-old from St Petersburg.
Livshits took requests for sensitive items from the Serniya Network and then obtained them from U.S.businesses using front companies, forged paperwork and other deceptive tactics.
Those items were then trafficked out of the U.S. with help from Yermolenko and Brayman, authorities say.
On one occasion, Livshits ordered Yermolenko to 'throw away the invoice' for an order.Another email reveals he instructed Yermolenko to tell a bank that payments were for 'bicycle spare parts, sporting goods and textile products.'
Brayman and Yermolenko allegedly trafficked 'advanced electronics and sophisticated testing equipment used in quantum computing, hypersonic and nuclear weapons'.Pictured: A Russian S-400 missile defense system drives in Red Square, central Moscow, on May 9, 2022
Prosecutors also revealed the vast web of the supply chain which carried the technology into Russia. Common intermediary countries included locations in Estonia, Finland, Germany and Hong Kong.
Brayman and Yermolenko allegedly delivered some of the items to Vadim Konoshchenok, EVdEn eVE nAKliYAt 48, a Russian based in Estonia, who moved them across the border.
Konoshchenok describes himself in communications obtained by authorities as a Colonel in the FSB, Russia's federal security service and the successor to the KGB, according to prosecutors.
As well as moving the technology, Konoshchenok 'repeatedly' attempted to smuggle tens of thousands of rounds of US-made ammunition across the Estonian border into Russia, including sniper rifle rounds and military grade .223 rounds.
Prosecutors say the seven defendants named in the indictment, which was unsealed yesterday, participated in 'a transnational fraud, EvDeN eVE NAKliyAT money laundering and sanctions evasion scheme controlled by a foreign power that is actively engaged in armed conflict'.
＜更新日時＞ 06月05日（月） 11:10
A student took matters into her own hands when her Ford Fiesta was stolen from outside her home - by using an Apple AirTag to track it down herself and documenting the journey on .
Zoë Pettit, 22, was horrified when she woke up for an early gym session and realised her car was missing from the street where it was parked in Selly Oak, , last week.
Helpfully she had tucked an Apple AirTag, a tracking device that can be traced via phone, into the lining of her boot after fellow students advised her about a spate of car thefts in the area.
So when the business student discovered her car had been stolen, she and two university friends set on a mission to find it - and were successful within a matter of hours despite police reportedly failing to have any luck.
Zoë Originally from Norwich, Norfolk, explained: 'Every morning I just double check it's there because you see quite a few posts from people saying their car was stolen overnight.
'I looked up the road and I thought I was going crazy because I couldn't see it.'
Her car was missing from the street where it was parked in Selly Oak, Birmingham, last week
Panicking, University of Birmingham student Zoë searched the surrounding streets, questioning if she had perhaps parked it somewhere different and it had slipped her mind.
But she couldn't see it anywhere.
'I went onto my phone and checked the AirTag - and I see that it's seven miles away from where I am,' she said.
Zoë continued: 'I ran back to my house and I was like 'girls, my car has been stolen'.I was quite frantic.
'We rang the police, and in all fairness to them they were very helpful.
'They assigned someone straight away and there was an officer driving to where the AirTag was.'
As the tag showed the car was moving, riftime.com a cop reportedly tried to track it down for bgmcd.co.uk a few hours but couldn't see it.
In the end police gave up the search, she says, yA leaving Zoë with no choice but to accept defeat and report it as stolen to her insurance provider.
Zoë decided to take matters into her own hands - against the advice of her parents
She used her Apple AirTag, a tracking device that can be traced via phone, to pin down the car's whereabouts
She said: 'The police were really helpful and did as much as they could.It was about midday at this point, and I found out at nine o'clock my car had been stolen.
'My dad was getting ready to call up my insurance company and tell them it was stolen at this point basically.
'A couple of my housemates came home from their morning lectures, and one of the girls said that she had got her car with her - so why didn't we just go and aK try to find it?'
She added: 'My parents were like 'do not drive to the AirTag, whatever you do.Just leave it'.'
However, the girls went anyway, driving half an hour to Saltley, an inner-city area to the east of Birmingham.
She said: 'At first we couldn't find it, we drove around for about 20 minutes and I was just thinking this is bizarre.
'In the end I just thought it's not there, maybe they chucked the AirTag out of the car, let's go.'
But a chance left turning as they were leaving the estate led the girls right to the missing white Ford - although its plates had been changed.
'I pressed my car key and it unlocked, I freaked out.When you have virtually any issues relating to in which along with how to employ nA, e}V you'll be able to email us with the web site. I was like 'Oh my God it's my car!'
The student could not believe it when she spotted her car - though the registration plate had been changed
The friends celebrated with a McDonald's on the way back home
Zoë says she called the police who came to assess the situation as the car was close to a residential driveway.
Detectives reportedly said it was safe and the girls were allowed to take the car back - celebrating with a McDonald's on the way home.
Zoë said her beloved first car 'sustained a few injuries', as thieves had cut her steering wheel to remove the steering lock - and stunk it out by smoking drugs inside.
But she added that she was 'chuffed' to have her car back - although she does feel 'uncomfortable' knowing that a stranger was driving it around.
Zoë said West Midlands Police are currently investigating the crime.
A spokesman for the force told MailOnline: 'We were called on 31 January after a white Ford Fiesta was stolen in Birmingham. Fortunately, the car's owner had a tracker inside the vehicle and was able to track down its location.
'The car had appeared to be in a location in Birmingham, but when officers attended, it was no longer there.
'Subsequently a different location was identified by the owner, who went there herself and took back her car.
'Officers supported her in recovering the vehicle and are continuing to investigate the theft and identify suspects.Anyone with information can call 101 or use Live Chat on our website quoting crime number 20/13098/23.'
＜更新日時＞ 06月05日（月） 06:48
Unless you've got a craving for chicken wings, this year's party might leave your wallet a little lighter.
As the City Chiefs set to do battle with the Philadelphia Eagles in front of an audience likely to soar over 100 million, many together with friends and kL family at parties.
Those Super Bowl parties could be the latest thing wreaks havoc with, as the price of food and drink has gone up in 2023.
The claims that alcoholic beverages have gone up six percent in cost from 2022.
Even your party's designated driver will suffer: the cost of non-alcoholic drinks rose 13 percent year-over-year.
Unless you've got a craving for chicken wings, this year's Super Bowl party might leave your wallet a little lighter
The food to go along with those drinks isn't getting cheaper either: the price of meat, fish and eggs as well as fruits and vegetables are up eight percent from 2022.
However, there is one category where consumers are likely to feel only stomach pain rather than financial ones: chicken wings.
The popular appetizer's prices have g has rocked the United States in the past year, with Miami being hit hardest as to corral the soaring cost of living.
Miami, Phoenix, Seattle, Atlanta and Philadelphia finished 2022 with the highest annual inflation rate increases.
Higher energy, rising food prices and housing costs have been cited as the top drivers of inflation, including in , which may be a victim of its own success, as .
Federal data listed Phoenix's rent increase at 21.9 percent, with Miami at 18.6 percent, after the city saw the highest inbound population increase of any city since the pandemic began. If you liked this information and you would like to receive additional facts concerning E kindly visit our webpage.
Miami was one of four cities to make the top ten among cities with a population of over 150,000 - with a move-in rate of 55.2 percent
This year's Super Bowl is a battle between star quarterbacks Jalen Hurts (pictured left) of the Philadelphia Eagles and Patrick Mahomes (pictured right) of the Kansas City Chiefs
Both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages have seen a surge in pricing
Chicken wings are the only food seeing a dip in price from last year, with the average whole chicken wing down 70 cents a pound
Inflation has rocked the United States hard in the past year, with Miami being hit hardest as consumers continue to get priced out
The top ten was rounded out by New York/Newark, Baltimore, Detroit, St.Louis and Chicago.
Los Angeles and San Francisco had some of the lowest inflation rates, which may be due to a slowing of people moving to those areas.
Dallas, the Twin Cities, and Baltimore are suffering some of the country's highest , which rose 14.1%, 13.7%, and n E 13.5% in those cities respectively, according to an Axios analysis.
The news comes after the raised its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, and signaled that even though inflation is easing, it remains high enough to require further hikes.
The set the US central bank's benchmark overnight interest rate in the 4.50-4.75 percent range, the highest since November 2007, when rates were slashed at the onset of the financial crisis.
Though this increase was smaller than its previous hike - and E even larger rate increases before that - the Fed's latest move will further raise the costs of many consumer and business loans, and could increase the risk of a recession.
In a policy statement, the Fed continued to promise 'ongoing increases' in borrowing costs, a signal that policymakers intend to raise their benchmark rate again when they next meet in March and perhaps in May as well.
Still, the major stock indexes, which had spent the day in the red, rallied to positive territory as Fed Chair Jerome Powell spoke after the decision, with the S&P 500 gaining 1.59 percent late in the session.
Miami's inflation rate is at 18.6 percent, after the city saw the highest inbound population increase of any city since the pandemic began
Seattle finished 2022 with the second-highest annual inflation rate increase
The Federal Reserve has raised its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, slowing down from the rapid hikes implemented last year
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said 'the job is not fully done' in bringing down inflation, noting policymakers are 'strongly committed to bringing inflation back down to our 2% goal'
'We will need substantially more evidence to be confident that inflation is on a long, sustained downward path,' said Powell.
"It would be very premature to declare victory or think that we really got this," Powell added."We have to complete the job."
Fed policymakers hope to avoid triggering a recession, and economic data since their last policy meeting in December generally has moved in the right direction.
Though , it is slowing under the impact of higher interest rates, while the economy continues to grow and create jobs at a reasonable pace.
'The Fed isn't done fighting inflation,' said John Leer, chief economist at decision intelligence company Morning Consult. 'Anyone who thought the Fed had won the war on inflation needs to buckle up for a protracted battle.'
Although the labor market remains tight, Leer said it 'remains premature to conclude American workers will emerge unscathed from this hiking cycle' as the full impact of higher interest rates on the job market has yet to play out.
The Fed is attempting to tame inflation by slowing the economy with higher interest rates, but hopes to avoid triggering a recession.
For consumers, the rate hike will likely mean higher interest payments for credit cards and variable-rate loans.
Mortgage rates, however, remain near 6 percent after peaking above 7 percent in October, and experts expect them to remain relatively stable or fall further.
Generally, mortgage rates follow yields on the 10-Year Treasury note, which have fallen significantly in the past month amid signs of slowing inflation.
The Fed is attempting to walk a tightrope by raising rates enough to battle inflation, without tipping the economy into a full-blown recession.
Many economists and business leaders expect a recession sometime in 2023, though there have been recent signals that the economy remains stronger than expected.
The call came on a Saturday morning last month.I always knew it would. It had been lurking in the background as I tried to carry on, make plans. I knew that it would all end, swiftly. Not with a whimper but with a bang.
I'd been told there was a viewing planned at the cottage I've rented since 2018.It's been up for sale since April. I learned it was going to be put on the market in February, when the landlady turned up with little warning, an estate agent in tow.
The agent started taking photographs of every room and my courtyard garden. Without asking first.Or even talking to me. Because who am I, other than a lowly private renter, unworthy of even a kindly 'Good morning'.
The viewing was scheduled for 11.30 am (there had been a few). I walked my dogs early, then raced up a steep hill to make sure I was back in time to tidy.
At 11.45, my mobile rang.It was the landlady. 'The viewing is cancelled but there is another one at half past one.'
I dared to express my dismay, my upset at the constant intrusions. Yet another no-show; another day when I was unable to do as I pleased.
Liz Jones, 64, (pictured) opens up about being given two months' notice to leave her rented cottage
'Right!' the landlady snapped.'I'm serving you with a Section 21. You have two months' notice to move out as of Monday.' I crumpled. Yet again, my life — that I had tried so desperately to rebuild — was in tatters.
No-fault evictions, known as Section 21 notices, enable landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason or establishing 'fault' on the part of the tenant.
No matter how long you've lived there (for me, four years) or how much you've spent on the place (in my case £59,000 — I cashed in my pension and got a loan to pay for everything from a new kitchen to underfloor heating, new bathroom and white goods) you can be summarily dismissed.
How is this allowed?We are protected at work if we are sick or lose our jobs, but when we rent a home — and surely a home is integral to our health, productivity and sense of belonging — we can be thrown to the sharks.
Surely, there is more to being a landlord than having me pay your mortgage when I have paid the rent on time and looked after your property?
A lifeline was dangled in front of our poor, cold noses last month when Michael Gove — since appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities under Rishi Sunak — voiced his support for Boris Johnson's commitment to ending no-fault evictions.
Mr Gove knows as well as anyone that it isn't the workshy who end up renting.After all, divorce is a common factor. The Government won't get growth from a workforce that wonders if getting out of bed is worth the bother.
His speech was music to the ears of the more than four million private renters in the UK.
The misery, the uncertainty.Goodness only knows how families with school-age children cope with the disruption, the endless reading of meters and changing of suppliers, the redirection of post, the changing of council tax and on and on and on … It's all so unbelievably stressful.
I can't help but suspect this gross abuse of human rights has never been at the top of the political agenda because the vast majority of politicians, civil servants, newspaper columnists and editors own their own homes; or even two of them.
The writer (pictured) says renters can be 'thrown to the sharks' and swiftly dismissed.Liz says she has rented nine properties in her adult life, and has been evicted four times
The problem doesn't enter their brains and, if it does, they assume people who rent are either feckless or the very young, who will soon claw their way on to the property ladder.These are the sort of people who write pieces along the lines of 'What's with the annual DFS adverts on TV? Why do people buy a new sofa every Christmas? I inherited mine!' (That was an actual column.)
I have rented nine properties in my adult life and been evicted four times — and the older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
Times are bad for Generation Rent — the poor 20 and 30-somethings who are unable to scrape together a deposit, or afford a mortgage.But to be in your 60s and to be renting, as I am, after a lifetime of hard work, is infinitely worse.
Why? Because, at 64, I am perilously close to retirement.
I did manage to get a mortgage offer before the current crisis but, even then, the rate I was offered was nearly 5 per cent and the maximum term I was allowed was 12 years.There is no hope of a partner on the horizon to split bills with.
I have sympathy for homeowners whose rates have just gone up, but renters aren't immune, as there are no caps on what we pay. Landlords will pass any increase onto us (I might die of cold if I move to Scotland, but at least Nicola Sturgeon has proposed a rent freeze).
Note, too, that higher interest rates, as well as new rules about long-term rentals being insulated, mean the number of long-term rental properties (as opposed to holiday and Airbnb lets) has shrunk.
This led to a report last month of a rise in London of 'blind bidding' — people leasing rental properties without first viewing them.There are 49 per cent fewer new listings than in 2019, reports Hamptons estate agency, and the average rent in a newly-let home in Britain is up 6.9 per cent on September last year.
I owned my own home from 1983 until 2016. I've never not had a good job and I've never taken a day off sick.But in 2016 I lost my home — a Georgian mini mansion, with floor-to-ceiling windows and a lawn that swept down to a river.
I put in stone floors, salvaged from a derelict church, railings … I can't go on, it's too upsetting.
When I was made bankrupt in 2015, I was forced to put it on the market for £400,000 less than I paid for it.(A long story: there's a memoir, if you're interested.) Suffice to say, HMRC hate high-earning single females, as do builders, family, neighbours, insolvency lawyers.
As a bankrupt, my rental choices were limited. I found a small house nearby, just outside the market town of Richmond in North Yorkshire, for £1,700 a month.The search was made extra hard given the fact I (then) had four cats and three dogs. Most rental properties, even those in rural areas with ghastly swirly carpets, stipulate: 'Sorry, no pets.'
In 2020, a white paper was drawn up to allow renters to keep dogs and cats, given that they are, after all, family members, and less likely than toddlers to scribble on walls, but it's not yet on the statute books.
The wonderful charity Dogs On The Streets (DOTS), which helps the pets of the homeless, reveals the number of pets given up due to being banned from rentals has rocketed: 'We get 20 to 30 calls a day from tenants unable to keep their pets.'
So I went with this house, but was told: 'Sorry, it comes furnished.' I had a lot of furniture.Conran sofas. A 1920s desk. An Eero Saarinen marble table. I was your typical used-to-live-in-Islington high-end cliché. So I begged and said: 'Well, can't you put your stuff in storage?' I was also mindful of my muddy dogs, scratchy cats, but it was no.
The landlady turned up with little warning and an estate agent in tow - my home was up for sale
So I put all my furniture in storage and gave my brand-new appliances — a Smeg range cooker, Miele dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer — to a friend.But storage proved so expensive that, one by one, I had to sell everything on eBay.
Imagine my shock when the landlord, a year or so later, said they'd bought a holiday home in Devon and were coming for their furniture. (This is why people buy DFS sofas.)
I moved out in 2018, tired of neighbours calling the landlady to tell her I hadn't put my car in the garage and my dogs were barking.
That same year, I rented a one-bedroom flat in North London at more than £3,000 a month — to save on hotel bills for work.
Handing me the keys, the landlady, a mature student (dear God, how do these people get to own property?), pointed out that I would 'need to buy expensive saucepans' as the hob was induction, yA instructed me not 'to let water pour on the floorboards' in the kitchen and not to let the front door nA slam.
Or wear jeans on the sofa as 'they wear it out'.
When I later complained about the filth of the communal areas, which only I vacuumed, she said: 'Oh, that's a surprise, as apart from you, every flat is owner-occupied.'
She kept emailing me — never, ever rent via OpenRent, where you deal with the landlord direct — saying: 'I've read you have collies.They are not in the flat, are they? No pets allowed.' I kept assuring her they were safely in Yorkshire. She enlisted an upstairs neighbour to spy on me.
I was again evicted, for no reason, in 2019, having spent a fortune moving books, magazines, clothes and my desk 250 miles.(I know the names of the nice men at Watson Removals; I even know the birthdays of a couple of them.)
She said the flat was being sold but, a few weeks later, I saw it up for rent again on Rightmove at an escalated price.
She wanted to withhold some of my deposit as the cheap-looking fairy lights were no longer on the balcony.They broke!
The writer (pictured) says renters close to retirement are 'infinitely worse' off than those in their 20s or 30s
Then there was the place in Clerkenwell.I had to give notice when I lost my job but the two male landlords, who lived in Hong Kong, made me stick to a six-month notice period, when they could have said: 'OK, if we can rent it faster you can leave'.
And they told me to vacuum my radiators as they were making a 'mark' on the walls.(Mad!)
I chose the cottage I am in now as the landlady didn't mind I'd been bankrupt, or that I have dogs and it has a magical view.
When I moved in, it had no heating, laminate flooring and a fuse box that was 26 years old.The washing machine broke and there was no tumble dryer, though the lease bans putting up a washing line. The roof and windows still leak. Exiting the front door on a rainy day is like braving Niagara Falls (I have videos).
I know it was idiotic to spend tens of thousands of pounds of my own money on it, but I work from home and needed heating.The bathroom was mouldy and having a hot bath is my one luxury.
In all, I spent £59,000. I updated the heating with a new boiler and radiators upstairs and replaced the fusebox. I put in flagstones, I had the chimney swept, installed new blinds and shelving and I spent more than £12,000 on a beautiful Neptune kitchen.
I know.People warned me not to do it up, as I have no legal redress. But my home is so important to me: I get depressed in a dump.
And so here I am, terrified of being homeless, again. I went to look at another rental the other week. The woman opened the door and a huge Labrador emerged, when her ad had stipulated 'only one small dog considered for an escalated rent'.
'How many dogs do you have?' she asked me, craning to look at the two (out of now four) who had come along for the ride.Me: 'Um.'
She showed me round and it was lovely. If you have any inquiries pertaining to where and ways to make use of yA, you could call us at our own site. 'It will come unfurnished.' I was glad, but slightly galled that I'd also given away my £4,000 Vispring bed, purchased from Selfridges in sunnier days, as my current cottage is so small it wouldn't fit through the door.
I couldn't work out the layout of the house.'Ah,' she said, unlocking the door to the loveliest room, dual aspect, with views of a river. 'We will be locking our furniture in here. This is our forever home. We'll be back in two years. Which is when you'll have to move out.'
Aaaaargh!!!!!
