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Couple Builds £2.4M House Portfolio, Faces Neighbor Backlash

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Greta Vnoutchkov and Daniil, a Lithuanian-Dutch couple, have amassed a £2.4 million property portfolio in just two years, primarily through houses in multiple occupation. Theyve achieved this without personal investment, relying on loans and finance from friends and family. Their strategy involves flipping affordable properties into high-rent shared homes, with ambitious plans to reach £6 million in value and £600,000 in annual rent. Living in a luxury estate in County Durham, theyve bought ten low-cost homes for conversion in the North East, drawing criticism from locals for disrupting community spirit and packing houses with transient tenants. Despite controversy, their three operational properties generate around £10,000 in monthly profit.

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Couple Builds £2.4M House Portfolio, Faces Neighbor Backlash

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On March 8, a 32-year-old Lithuanian woman named Greta Vanouchkov and her 36-year-old Dutch husband Daniel have built a two-point. Four million-pound portfolio of houses and multiple occupation from scratch in just two years. They claim to have done it without using any of their own money, instead relying on interest only loans and bridging finance from friends and family. Who get a good return? On social media and YouTube, they share tips on flipping cheap properties into high-ranked shared homes, with big plans to hit six million pounds in, value, and six hundred thousand pounds a year in rent. The couple now lives on a luxury-gated estate in County Durham after leaving London, and they post about trips to places like Norway, Rome, and the United States. Locals in the northeast, where they bought ten low-cost homes to convert, accuse them of ruining family neighborhoods by packing houses with, transient tenants like nurses paying up to 800 pounds a month for a room. There are three working properties already bring in around 10,000 pounds a month in profit,

but as more mega-conversions get approved in spots like Newcastle in Sunderland, neighbor complaints about lost community spirit are growing louder.

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