Landlord - buy-to-let investor - property investor

It provides me with a wry smile. This whole buy-to-let phenomenon now debacle.

I'm just a simple landlord and proud to be so.

Where do professional landlords go for landlords insurance?

For decades us landlords have scavenged a living. Letting property, getting our hands dirty by cleaning, dusting, painting, bodging and listening to winging tenants.

Then the buy-to-let phenomenon arrived. Suddenly being called a landlord was not good enough. I was supposed to trade in my slipover for a slick suit and a stripey shirt!

Then buy-to-let investor wasn't 'high brow' enough. The media wanted to brand us property investors. The cavalry of property investors were seen buying huge swathes of inner city real estate making a small fortune without seeming to do more than signing the odd deposit cheque.

Now the buy-to-let bust. Who wants to admit to be a property investor now? Only if you are looking at drumming up business on your 'big issue' pitch.

Lets face it landlords. It's time to go back to the basics of cleaning, dusting, painting, bodging and listening to winging tenants. Remember landlords.

Say it loud - 'I'm a landlord and proud!'