{"id":135171,"date":"2023-03-12T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/worried-about-rent-spare-a-thought-for-your-poor-landlord-eva-wiseman\/"},"modified":"2023-03-12T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T08:20:21","slug":"worried-about-rent-spare-a-thought-for-your-poor-landlord-eva-wiseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/worried-about-rent-spare-a-thought-for-your-poor-landlord-eva-wiseman\/","title":{"rendered":"Worried about rent? Spare a thought for your poor landlord | Eva Wiseman"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRough sleeping is on the rise and rents are sky-rocketing, but it\u2019s those wanting to be known as \u2018housing providers\u2019 we should save our sympathy forQuick, a new marginalised minority group has dropped! Landlords are becoming concerned that the word is now seen as a slur \u2013 they\u2019d prefer (update your records) to be referred to as \u201chousing providers\u201d. To which I choose to smile tightly and try my best. As yet, there are no Landlords Lives Matter campaigns, but browsing #PropertyTok, a hashtag under which these people congregate in very tight polo shirts to boast about the latest tricks they\u2019ve come up with to wring more cash from their tenants, I give it three months.My favourite #PropertyTok videos \u2013 I say favourite, I mean, the videos that inspire the most emotion in me, a reaction, albeit allergic and bilious, the feeling that the world is made of paper and about to fold in half \u2013 are the ones where the landlord explains how to \u201crent to rent\u201d. Subletting, is what you or I might call it, but here it has been rebranded as a cheeky life hack, much like deodorising your microwave with lemon juice. \u201cRent to rent\u201d means renting a flat, then letting it on Airbnb for twice what you\u2019re paying, your tenant now crushed under a double-weight of landlords, a rare experience in that it is absolutely nobody\u2019s kink. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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