Yes I agree with that, also it takes quite a long time to evict someone especially as there are vulnerable children involved. Look at how long the plastic witch pricey hung on to her house, even leaving it for years at a time with non payments. With a large house like Bellend Manor, it would stand the banks more money to hang on to it as the price goes up more when they 'sit' on it. He could have remortgaged for the max he was able to on a high interest loan and that might be the reason they can spend a certain amount to set up. I fully believe this is what he has done and he was trying to bend sarahs arm up her back the whole year before they fled the country, to enable him to sell up and get at the deposit equity tied up in the property. He was getting desperate, I could see it in his behaviour and he leaked a lot in his language.She point blank refused to even consider it.
I used to be a manager who was trained in investigation skills, dealing with employee theft ect. You are trained to listen out for leaks that everybody does which leads to people revealing their motives in the language they use. It's fascinating.
I heard so many tells and his attempt to manipulate Sarah to want to leave, the problem he has with her is actually quite an amusing one to me , as she is sooooo thick, subtle hints and directions he does go over her head. She just doesn't get it and when she does understand, and as hes not a man to accept responsibility, he fails to do the right thing and tell her they cant afford it any more!
She then takes it as a joke (mum at the end of the bed telling him she should get pregnant
) most intelligent women would pick up on the constant weird hints ect and sit their husband/wife down and say something to get to the bottom of it, but them two..... they just ping around all over the place aimlessly stupid, they act like two 5 year olds playing house in the school nursery.
That is why he has to rope Esmerelda in, Lazy seems to want to please her in a childish teenage way, a bit like wanting the popular girl in your year to like you.
He is planning on getting Esme to cry and be upset about going home to England, I think his plan is to return in August for the Eras concert and then go full throttle with his discarding of the UK, using Esmememe as a lever for Saz.
There are certain patterns he goes through, he fully intends on leaving the UK for good. The only reasons are purely selfish and to protect his ego when the doors finally shut on his only successful career he has had and that is hanging off your wife and kids arses to flex about being clever and making more money than he could ever dream of (or cope with)
The house will go within the next year to 18 months is my prediction.