I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story.
If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling.
I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.
Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
Having an awful landlord can be a good thing, it can bring you together as a household.
Never have I got on better with my flatmates than when our landlord installed a dodgy deadlock and locked us out of our flat for a full Friday evening.
There are lots of comic bosses and fathers in sitcoms, but the comic landlord remains rare.
I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.
