By Vanessa Allen A buy-to-let tycoon has banned housing benefit tenants in favour of Eastern European migrants who he says are more likely to pay their rent on time. Fergus Wilson has sent eviction notices to 200 tenants on housing benefit and said he would not accept any more welfare applicants. The former maths teacher, who built up one of Britain’s biggest buy-to-let empires with his wife Judith, said his decision was based on experience as he had found Eastern Europeans were less likely to default on rent payments than Britons on housing benefit. Fergus Wilson has sent eviction notices to 200 tenants on housing benefit and said he would not accept any more welfare applicants. The former maths teacher built up one of Britain's biggest buy-to-let empires with his wife Judith
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Fergus Wilson has sent eviction notices to 200 tenants on housing benefit
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He said Eastern Europeans less likely to default on rent than Britons
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Mr Wilson said many other private landlords had taken the same decision
‘Tenants on benefits are competing with @placeholder who came to the UK in 2005 and have built up a good enough credit record to rent privately,’ Mr Wilson said.