The property-seminar millionaire who helped ruin an army of wannabe landlords

The collapse of Jim Moore’s property seminar company, Inside Track, has left an army of amateur landlords wondering whether they will ever see compensation for deals that went wrong.

Jim Moore considers himself a "victim" of the credit crunch. "But I don't want to whinge about it," he remarked bravely last week. Many of his customers may think that that is the ultimate in barefaced cheek. Not even Max Clifford, whom Moore hired to handle his PR when things began to get sticky last year, will dissuade them that they've been taken for a ruinous ride by "Mr Buy-to-Let".

As The Mail on Sunday points out, the collapse of Moore's property seminar company, Inside Track, "has left an army of amateur landlords wondering whether they will ever see compensation for investments that went hideously wrong".

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