"successful entrepreneur"?
Your (no tax, no insurance, fake MOT) van wiped you out and shouldn't have been on the road, and the uninsured lock up where you stored all your stock got broken into. Did you not have access to the internet or a Citizen's Advice Bureau? You could have delayed eviction by two months by the look of things.

Hopefully you have insurance these days.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 19:37, 1 reply)

The van didn't wipe us out, it just lost us some money
and while it was a silly act (and never repeated) it was just one of the many things that went wrong at the time.

The flat, in contrast, wasn't our fault and couldn't be sorted. We paid in cash and there was no contract, and while we could have fought it there was simply no prospective to it; we'd have had to move out at some point. I'm not sure how 2004-era internet could have helped other than "a/s/l? U cn live wif me :D:D:D"
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 18 Dec 2012, 20:41, closed)