To think that Landlords have a bad name.

To add to the views on removing properties from the market, a lot of people will argue this doesn’t happen and landlords are martyrs for providing homes for people.

This isn’t true.

When we were buying our first home we were repeatedly outbid in auctions by buy-to-let investors on houses we would have afforded. So yes, you are stopping people from buying their own homes.

YANBU. Landlords get a lot of hate on MN, most of it isn’t deserved.

I’m glad you’re a good landlord, I know they exist as we’ve had one.

Unfortunately there are probably more ‘bad’ ones than good. We have been through two ‘no fault’ evictions, one with a two month baby. When you have been through the extreme stress of having to find a home it’s hard to like landlords and a lot of people will have the same experiences and therefore views.

The problem is that by buying 3 properties you don't need, you have taken 3 properties away from those families to buy themselves. Also in buying more than you need has risen the local house prices so not only have you removed the home for the families to buy, you have also priced them out of the local area. You may think you are a great landlord because you let them paint and fix things, but be real here - very, very few families want to rent. Very few people want to rent. They simply have no choice to thanks to the impact of people buying buy-to-lets. It's the economic impact that's incredibly selfish and makes the perma-renter-millennials despise you.

I think it's more about how private landlords have distorted the housing market and how successive governments have encouraged this by beneficial tax-regimes and a disinclination to build any social housing. So people quite rightly feel aggrieved that there is a lack of first-time housing stock available at a reasonable price, whilst others seem to be hoarding property and ending up with a valuable investment with tenants paying their mortgage.

It's not the quality of the landlord, more the ethics of the practice.

The thing is, you only hear about the bad ones. There’s nothing interesting to say about a landlord who is responsive and quick to repair / replace things when the tenants want.

When I was at university I had a great landlord. He owned about 40 properties, had his own team of builders, plumber and electrician and was polite and responsive. Being a landlord is not a passive income stream.