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74: Offshore Homes and Ing-er-land

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Selling Your House to Rent It Back

MOD was paying rent for homes which were not occupied okay yes it was leasing back the entire estate not just the bits it needed right so it's been wasting money or on leasing back Solomon Hughes they say it's the 1990s and at that point celebrity train enthusiast and Red Trousa wearer Michael Portillo was actually a government minister. He had the incredible idea of saying well I'll sell 50,000 married quarters army housing to somebody and then rent it back but we will do all the repairs. The deal was so bad these are the two really bad elements of the deal one was selling your house to rent it back is generally not recommended but that's what we did.

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