Rent-dodging Scots debt expert left couple £15,000 out of pocket after taking out a lease on their luxury home
dailyrecord.co.ukA bankrupt debt expert was ordered out of a luxury home after running up more than £15,000 in rent arrears. It’s also claimed that thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused to the house during the 18-month stay by Alan Harty.It’s the second time the self-styled debt adviser has moved into a luxury home and run up thousands in unpaid rent.
The latest landlord to fall victim to Harty is retired restaurant owner Costanzo Cacace, 72, who was granted an eviction order in October after a lengthy legal battle.Bentley-driving Harty was also ordered to pay the rent debt of £15,155 in October but has so far failed to do so.
He left the property in the village of Torrance, near Glasgow, at the beginning of December – before the eviction order could be enforced.He’s now living with family in the Glasgow suburb of Milngavie, where, yesterday, he declined to comment.
A property tribunal which granted the eviction was told that Harty’s work involves helping people in financial difficulties through debt consolidation, debt arrangement schemes and trust deeds.On a previous occasion in November 2020 Harty was ordered to pay £38,445 plus interest after he missed 11 consecutive payments on a luxury property in nearby Bearsden owned by an American company executive.
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