{"id":301,"date":"2024-04-03T10:36:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T09:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T14:14:12","slug":"301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/03\/301\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: &#8220;HMO Enforcement Team&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15pt;\">Bambi Holdings Ltd aka \u201cHMO Enforcement Team\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38;\">\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9 BEWARE! So many red flags for this company \ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; height: 1em;\"><span style=\"display: none;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; height: 1em;\"><span style=\"display: none;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"602\" height=\"531\" class=\"wp-image-308 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image1-602w531h-1.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image1-602w531h-1.png 602w, https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image1-602w531h-1-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; height: 1em;\"><span style=\"display: none;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ul\" style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<div class=\"li\" style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; position: relative; text-indent: -18pt; text-decoration: initial;\">\u25cf<\/span>\u201cHMO Enforcement Team\u201d isn\u2019t much of a team: the two employees it claims are fakes. \u201cEmily Thompson\u201d is actually a barrister called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexology.com\/firms\/wilberforce-chambers\/sri_carmichael\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #1155cc;\">Sri Carmichael<\/span><\/a> who specialises in Civil Fraud cases (!) &amp; \u201cSophie Reynolds\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2023\/11\/08\/arup-dima-zogheib-neil-harwood-urban-heat-snapshot-interview\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #1155cc;\">Dima Zogheib<\/span><\/a>, a landscape architect working for a design consultancy. Both are now taking action against \u201cHMO Enforcement Team\u201d for unauthorised use of their images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"li\" style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; position: relative; text-indent: -18pt; text-decoration: initial;\">\u25cf<\/span>\u201cHMO Enforcement Team\u201d has never represented any tenants at a RRO hearing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"li\" style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; position: relative; text-indent: -18pt; text-decoration: initial;\">\u25cf<\/span>Their claims that they have achieved \u00a3100,000 in RROs and helped 50 tenants are simply untrue. None of their blog posts relate to any cases they have brought to a hearing: because they haven\u2019t.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"li\" style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; position: relative; text-indent: -18pt; text-decoration: initial;\">\u25cf<\/span>Mr<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jared-williams-6b8420146\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #1155cc;\"> Jared Williams<\/span><\/a> is a former Art student from Oxford Brookes University who conducted<a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/655f68e00c7ec8000d95bd71\/7_November_2023_Decision_Room_2_240_Holdenhurst_Road_Bournemouth_BH8_8AY_.doc\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #1155cc;\"> his own RRO application<\/span><\/a> for illegal eviction from holiday accommodation let to him by Bournemouth City College at the end of 2023. He wrongly named the agent as the Respondent but was lucky that the Tribunal corrected this.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"li\" style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0pt; padding-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; position: relative; text-indent: -18pt; text-decoration: initial;\">\u25cf<\/span>The company behind \u201cHMO Enforcement Team\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/14266921\/officers\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #1155cc;\">Bambi Holdings Ltd<\/span><\/a>. The for-profit company has not yet filed any accounts and has only Mr Williams as a director. It has \u00a31 in assets.<\/div>\n<div>UPDATE:<br \/>\nThose photos of &#8220;employees&#8221; have now been replaced with AI generated ones. You can find the original ones here still: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240313172053\/https:\/\/hmoenforcementteam.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240313172053\/https:\/\/hmoenforcementteam.co.uk\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi Holdings Ltd aka \u201cHMO Enforcement Team\u201d \ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9 BEWARE! So many red flags for this company \ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9\ud83d\udea9 . . . \u25cf\u201cHMO Enforcement Team\u201d isn\u2019t much of a team: the two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}