absentee landlords
Distant property holders
Absentee landlords are property owners who don't live at or near their rental properties.
The term carries negative connotations—suggesting neglect, delayed repairs, and exploitation of tenants from a comfortable distance: The building's absentee landlord hasn't fixed the heating in weeks.
Historically applied to colonial landowners extracting rent from overseas holdings.
- slumlordNegligent low-income housing owner
- out of townAbsent from one's locale
- evictionForced departure from rental
- rent strikeOrganized tenant nonpayment
- tenant rightsLessee's legal entitlements
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