Don’t call me a landlord?

Don’t call me a landlord?

0:01 AM, 4th February 2025, About 12 hours ago 2

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Hello, Do you provide premises for residential or commercial tenants? If the answer is residential, then you are a housing provider.

Landlord is an archaic legal term which today is a misnomer. Some hundreds of years ago a landlord was lord of his land. No longer.

Landlord is now a pejorative word. We are housing providers so let us not be offensive by using the unsuitable term, landlord.

Let us be proud of being Housing Providers and call ourselves such.

Thank you,

Housing Provider


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Jo Westlake

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10:18 AM, 4th February 2025, About An hour ago

I'm a landlord. I'm proud of being a landlord. I could describe myself as a landlady but I don't.
I provide housing for people who aren't ready to buy a house yet or who have lost a house due to divorce. I'm equally happy with long term tenancies lasting decades or short term ones lasting a few months. If other people are jealous that's their problem.
"Housing provider" is too broad a term. It could mean builders, Councils, Housing Associations, BTR, PRS landlords or B&Bs. I don't want to be lumped into the same category as Social Housing or Build to Rent co-living.

The only confusion with the job title "landlord" is that some people think you run a pub.

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11:15 AM, 4th February 2025, About 20 minutes ago

Surely the problem here us that for the last few years the government (both types) the press and social media have all worked hard to demonise landlords or whatever else we call ourselves
We all know that the vast majority of us provide a good and essential service to our tenants
It's the tiny minority of rogue landlords that tarnish the title of landlord for all of us it is those people that need to be renamed as criminals and driven out of the industry
I'm sure that even that would not stop the inane ranting from the likes of generation rent and shelter but the only way to deal with those is to ignore them

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