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I remember the landlord of a room I rented in Finsbury Park in 1980 speaking in much the same terms. Man, if all your tenants could do what you did, you wouldn't have all that juicy income, so shut the fuck up.

In a way it's kind of good how the ongoing UK media project of Winners/Losers is down to scraping the barrel for gormless Dubai shitheads who no one likes.

This is up there with Trump saying he started off with "a small million dollar loan"

he is just preaching the prosperity gospel really

Good job, Sharon 👏

Am so glad I never read the article and just judged instantly… Saved me getting high blood pressure bsky.app/profile/emms...

Did he build himself a cunt factory using just his cunty bear hands and start selling cuntiness to an unsuspecting world?

I see Chairman Mao's face

If someone is selling advice on getting rich the way they did, that proves that it no longer works, as selling advice is more lucrative and they wouldn’t want the competition. It’s not a statement of success but an admission of desperation.

Remember him from Dan Neidle. taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/01/06/s...

When he bought his first home, the ratio of average salary to average starter home price was 3.6 times. It's now 4.7 times. And nowadays there are very very few 100% mortgages. So no Samuel, it's not that easy.

It was Dan who brought this case to my attention, gives a good sense of the sort of person Samuel Leeds is: www.crowdjustice.com/case/andrew-...

I wish more total twats would fuck off to Dubai.

Greedy little dick basically.

This guy sounds like the next candidate to be #MisterKatiePrice.

Don't forget simple survivorship bias. 99 out of a 100 who attempted what he did would likely have failed and never been heard of again. His being the exception is as relevant as the 100 year old who puts their longevity down to smoking 30 a day.

Handy he's earning so much when he's about to face a 6 figure legal bill for his failed libel claim

4 children & no school fees/ childcare? Seems unlikely I’m guessing thats part of the charity.

Oh come now, it’s “no questions asked” money for the little lady so we know that he’s not beating the shit out of her for that reason. Until he starts asking questions, that is. (not saying he is, but there’s a Tate, I mean type).

I enjoy his dip into far right politics where he hides that a lot of his courses were based on large scale HMO’s.

Humble beginnings included going to a private school.

The one bit I believe is that he worked as an Illusionist. Showmanship, slight of hand and distraction being vital elements...

No. But I believe the “mortgage” might be an interest free loan, and the “bank” might be his stepdad.

Fraud in essence. With a little bit of luck of birth thrown in.

The only thing missing from this shitty story was that the original startup money came from a grandparent who had died and left it to him.

Definitely the uncle backed it and sorted it and then gifted the house when that was an option.

While all that you say is true: this Metro story is clearly ragebait crafted for vitality, right?

Did he mention if he pays any tax, anywhere?

A distinct smell of billy bullshit around this time.17 years old and getting a100% mortgage? Mmmmm…..

He’s “rich” because people are poor and he can exploit them. If he really believes that “everyone can be rich” surely that’s a redistribution of wealth?

*boasting

Dammit. I've fallen at the first hurdle.

Well, when the AI bubble bursts, I guess there'll be a lot of property (and GPUs) going cheap so...

Autocorrect decided I'd mistyped *reasonably*!

He didn’t obtain 100% finance is my understanding. He said he borrowed 80% of the value because the seller was taking a loss. Tricky to get banks to agree to that in my experience (I work in a bank fwiw), especially in 2009. But I’d agree with everything else you’ve written.

He also says blaming landlords for high rents makes no sense because “the market determines the price”. My brother in Christ, YOU ARE THE MARKET. The rent isn't delivered to your house each morning by the Bank of England's weather balloon.

That makes no sense - the bank accepted the step father for the mortgage without him having a financial undertaking? "No its not my money, its my step son, and I don't even need to pass an affordability test?"🤥 In 2009 - in the way he describes "all he lent me was his name" was an impossibility

But it's ok. He's Christian....now where was that bit about treating others as you'd like to be treated...

Yes, Mr Leeds is very good at advising how to rack up enormous tax bills.

Brilliant thread - thank you.

Hes an insufferable bullshitter and private jet renter who posts about some courses or other on LinkedIn.

According to legend The Ramblers Association organised a mass trespass of some estate in the 1930s and the Duke of Wherever personally confronted one: 'Get off my land!' 'How did it become your land?' 'My ancestor fought for it!' 'Fair enough - [takes off coat] I'll fight you for it right now'.

Tax write off

I suspect that “charity” is his own….

Lives in slave state. Tells you all you need to know.

Going by a search on companies house, the few companies with him listed all seem to be micro accounts or exempt, yet he's taking in £100k per month? Hmmmm...

So basically, he appears not done much work for his wealth. All of the renters have paid for his living. Young people have no excuse??. So who is actually going to do any real work, so as to earn wages to feed jhis like. Doctors, Teachers, Train Drivers? His capitalism will eat itself?

Have only read the first post of this thread so far, and I'm already betting my house on there being an inheritance somewhere in this tale

As soon as I saw "Lives in Dubai" you knew...

He's right. When I first started out on the road to my incredible wealth, all I had was a dream, the ability to work hard and £2m from my dad.

Aging like warm milk finance.yahoo.com/news/rich-da...