Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords Season 8 is yet to be announced by Channel 5

Lancashire letting agent Paul Ainsworth Lord has a run-in with a tenant while carrying out a routine inspection on a property - leading to a three-month stand-off. Harrow Council housing officers investigate a residential property being used as a brothel and a Lincolnshire pub owner calls in a lawyer when his tenant, who manages the pub, stops paying rent.

Case of landlords with nightmare tenants and the difficulties they had in evicting them, including Yossi Harel, who rented out his family home in north London to take a job in Israel. He thought he had the perfect tenants - a teacher and his family - but before long they stopped paying rent. Plus, a builder who came up against his tenant and her aggressive boyfriend and a lawyer tasked with evicting an anti-social tenant in Blackpool.

In Birmingham, tenant Jason is living in atrocious conditions. Struggling with no light or heat or running water, he has made a desperate plea to the council to help him. Housing enforcement officer Steve is on a mission to investigate - but will he be able to track down the absent landlord? If not, Jason will face becoming homeless.

The work of lawyer Chris Sharpe, who specialises in helping landlords who are plagued by troublesome tenants and trespassers. Chris tries to remove trespassers from a landowner's one-and-a-half-acre site, filling it with up to 20 caravans and a mountain of rubbish - only for things to take a menacing turn. Business partners in Bristol dream of turning a derelict swimming baths into flats, but their dreams turns sour when squatters move in, and Chris receives a shock when he tries to evict squatters from an abandoned print factory in Essex.

After taking pity on a single mother, landlord Ronnie discovered mystery occupants have turned his property into a scrap metal merchants. Brent Council housing enforcement officer Herb discovers 26 labourers living in life-threatening conditions in a single house, while letting agent John tries to find a solution for a tenant living in squalor due to an issue with hoarding.

Letting agent Paul uncovers a cannabis farm during a routine arrears inspection, but learns that the tenant has been in prison for the past four months and claims ignorance of the criminal crop. Meanwhile, builders Stuart and Steve win a possession order to regain their property, but face the worst damage they have ever seen and a £20,000 bill to repair it.

A retired couple in a seaside village in Norfolk battle with their non-paying tenant living in the flat above them, so they ask eviction expert Paul to help. Blackpool lettings agent John comes up against a hard drug user who is attracting antisocial wrongdoers to the bedsits that John runs, while in Leicestershire, Sharon battles to reclaim a property from a former friend who is close to £3,500 in arrears with rent.

John wants to turn a former Blackpool hotel into bedsits.

Housing agents take pity on tenants in dire straits.

Following a tip-off, Harrow Enforcement officers are shocked to discover an industrial-scale cannabis farm in a house. The team, along with the police, are determined to find out who has been running this illegal operation. After complaints of all-night parties in a quiet street in Darwen, Lancashire, letting agent Paul pays the revellers a visit. The house is in terrible shape, but the young tenants promise they will clear it all up and keep the noise down. Instead, however, the partying gets worse, with some of the tenants' `associates" making nasty threats.

Letting agent Paul has a tenant in Lancashire who is behind with his rent and won't return any calls, but the situation is much worse than he could possibly have imagined when he heads into the upstairs bedroom. Harrow enforcement officers Andrew and Ozge are called to a local salon, where a leak from the upstairs flat is disrupting Masi's ability to run her shop. Once the landlord agrees to give them access, they discover terrible conditions and a back yard piled with rubbish.

Paul discovers that an unruly tenant may be planning to do a flit. Harrow Council discover 30 people in a three-bed house. Shop-owner Pauline is threatened when squatters invade her property.

A landlord tries to evict his non-paying tenant and his seven cats, another is faced with two tenants from hell, and a couple try to get their daughter's property back.

A couple from Kent are close to losing their home, a landlord is facing financial ruin, and a young mother is made homeless.

Housing officers find ten people living in a property initially rented to just one. Squatters in Tottenham invade an elderly woman's home while she is away. Eight unsafe buildings have been built on space allotted to one. A landlord is forced to move back in with an unpaying tenant after a break-up.

Harrow council investigate an unauthorised loft conversion that is a danger to the tenants who sleep there, a couple in Suffolk are stuck in a nightmare after agreeing to rent a property to its former owner who now refuses to leave, and a single mum tricks her way into a property.

Fabielli and her family have been forced into one room due to leaks in the roof, but the landlord refuses to make any repairs. Daniel is tired with false promises of rent, and has brought in Landlord Action to recover his property. A four-bed bungalow in Brent houses 20 men, some of them sleeping in the pantry.

After informing his tenant of his intention to sell his flat Steve faces a battle to get his property back, Council Officer Mykia investigates reports of an unsafe flat above a restaurant, and a pub owner in Lincolnshire needs help to evict a non-paying tenant.

John and Irene had the fight of their lives evicting a family from their home. Jill invested in a house with her late husband, but it turned into a nightmare. Wayne offered his home to an employee, thinking she would be the perfect tenant.

Emmanuel reveals what happened after he returned from working abroad for one year to find himself £24,000 in mortgage arrears and unable to get into his own property. Andy describes how he had to call the police after evicted tenants tried to force their way back into his home, and a council officer checks a small 2-bed flat that she previously found to have 12 occupants.

A furious landlord discovers his tenant has been subletting his exclusive London flat, squatters with a baby are given two weeks to find somewhere new to live, and a grandmother needs a High Court Sheriff to help her evict her non-paying tenants.

When they respond to an alarm at a laundrette, firefighters discover several people living illegally on the premises, a landlady feels betrayed after renting her property to a friend whose pets cause serious damage, and in Notting Hill tenants owe a landlord more than ú16,000.

A doctor needs his lawyer to evict a defaulting tenant from his old family home. Over 30 men found living in an unsafe house refuse to name the landlord. A property owner calls in Landlord Action when he suspects that defaulting tenants have caused extensive damage. A landlady needs to get into her next-door property when her elderly tenant, an extreme hoarder, dies.

After offering a former tenant the use of a spare room until she gets back on her feet, a landlord then struggles to evict her, and her partner who also moves in. A landlord, travelling abroad, has to return to London when her tenants stop paying the rent, and Harrow Council officers find 30 mattresses in a flat designed for four people.

Landlords fall foul of two young tenants who are using their rental property as a film set. Eviction lawyer Chris receives a shock at an abandoned printworks. Harrow Council tackles a bad case of fly-tipping, and landlord Paul has the fight of his life getting a violent tenant out of his property.

Landlords fall foul of two young tenants who are using their rental property as a film set. But the tenants have stopped paying the rent and are now refusing to leave.

This episode picks up the stories of an Essex landlady who had to go to extraordinary lengths to evict her tenants, a landlord whose tenant refused to get the message and another landlord who cannot move on with his life until he gets his tenants evicted.

In Bristol, Jon's dream of turning a former tram staion into flats was derailed by squatters, has he managed to get things back on track? In Peterbrough, two tenants living in dangerous conditions were scrimping and saving for a deposit, have they hit their target? And a landlord who moved to America was owed thousands of pounds by her tenants - have they paid their dues?

After letting a young couple stay in her house for free, young mum Hamdi ended up locked out of her own home. Nick discovered that his tenant had scarpered and sublet his house to half a dozen strangers. Harrow Council raid a small two-bed flat housing a dozen tenants in unsafe conditions.

When Harrow Council carry out early-morning raids on several dangerous properties they find vulnerable tenants paying through the nose to live in uninhabitable conditions, including one man living in a plywood shed on the roof of a building.

A landlord calls in help when some clued-up squatters take over a disused pub which is in line for development, and a widow faces trouble when she tries to evict a family who owe her thousands in rent.

A retired couple pay the price when their tenants stop paying rent and invite their abusive friends in to squat. A man can't sell his house because his sitting tenant refuses to leave. Harrow Council housing officers visit a vulnerable family living in damp and squalid conditions.

A couple from Kent face losing their house because of a nightmare tenant, a residential home is found to have been turned into a brothel, and a tenant uses scare tactics to keep his landlord off his back.

Catching up with the victims and villains of the housing rental market. Craig has been battling family friends to get his property back after three months of no rent. Sindy called in eviction specialist Paul Shamplina to help remove her non-paying tenant, but they both got more than they bargained for. Owed thousands by Sophia, Terry was relieved to get his house back, but then she called the police.

Catching up with the victims and villains of the rental market. Rachel intended to rent out her cottage for three months; four years later, her tenant is still there.

Susan and Gary's agent changed the locks on their house.

A landlord discovers that his letting agency has advertised his property on a Romanian website. A single mum's tenant owes 10k but has vanished.

Teorin and Collette's large family home was turned into a holiday stopover for strangers. Alex is dependent on rent for her medical expenses, but her tenant has not paid in months. Council officers Ozge and Jo uncover 40 people crammed into a potential death-trap of a house.

Salon owner Wayne is owed £3,000 by his employee Katie.

A flat owner develops a bad case of squatters.

A landlord feels the heat from a tenant using his home for their business and a developer risks the wrath of squatters.

A woman fights to reclaim the house she was brought up in from a tenant who owes her money, and a newly-married couple in Chelsea find their buy-to-let dream turns sour.

Catching up with some of the previously featured tenants and landlords. Lesley and Mark's tenant turned out to be a con artist scamming students. Ben investigates an unlicensed boarding property in Deptford. Nicholas finally returns to his house only to find it booby-trapped.

Catching up with some of the tenants and landlords from the first series, including a couple who purchased a building in which they hoped to establish a charity for vulnerable children, that became overrun by squatters.

Claie and Simon have found their home occupied by a complete stranger who says he heard about it on Gumtree. Hamza has been locked out of his own house after doing a favour for a friend. Claud's tenant won't take his calls or open her door, leaving him 30k in debt.

Kate's tenants became anti-social, and now they are suing her for trying to evict them. Dhiren bought a flat that already had a tenant, but the moment he did, she stopped paying rent. After a health scare, Tim wants to sell his property, but his tenant refuse to leave.

Rose lost her job and had to rent out her house, but then the tenant stopped paying rent. Selina and Lee moved to the US and let out their UK home, but now they have to go to court. When Harpreet returns to his property, he finds it has been stripped bare. Michale and his parents have been living with a life-threatening mold problem.

Kellie owes five months' rent and refuses to leave unless the bailiffs arrive. Arvydas is quite happy living in his garden shed. Simon wanted to sell his house post-breakup, but the tenants are still there five years later.

Documentary series about the victims and villains of the buy-to-let boom. Joy thought she had found the perfect tenant to let her house to while she volunteered at an African orphanage, but discovered that her house was being rented out room-by-room as a boutique hotel. A couple expecting their first baby face dreadful damp, and a former barber is owed more than £3000 in rent.

Documentary series about the victims and villains of the buy-to-let boom. Catching up with some of the featured cases in the series including Les who had been forced to sleep on his sofa for two months and 70-year-old Joan whose tenants refused to go quietly.

Documentary series about the victims and villains of the buy-to-let boom. After moving abroad for work, a landlord discovers that his tenants have left him over £20,000 behind with his mortgage, and the developers of an old swimming pool in Bristol discover that they are liable for the electricity that the building's squatters have been using.

After her tenant claimed that the property was full of damp, a landlord gets a shock when she finally gets inside to inspect the damage. And a landlord's son has to deal with unruly tenants when his father passes away.

Property developer Alex calls in an eviction specialist after finding that he could be arrested if he attempts to oust squatters from a derelict pub he purchased. In Peterborough, the Council receive a complaint from a family threatened with an illegal eviction. Meanwhile, a woman regrets letting her flat to a mother and daughter after trouble with late rent payments turned into a nightmare.

A retired secretary has to visit her tenant in prison in order to retake possession of her buy-to-let flat. Elsewhere in Manchester, a mother looks to a housing charity for help when she believes the property she is renting is making her kids ill.

A Yorkshire landlord has to call in the eviction specialists to remove tenants from a house. Music businessman Donovan hasn't received any rent for seven months from his tenants and his costs are spiralling out of control. The courts find in his favour. When he finally does get his property back, he makes an disturbing discovery.