For the first time, landlords were not able to monitor the electoral behaviour of their tenants.
It would also shorten to 82 days the time landlords have to fix problems related to lead exposure.
At the same time, landlords have sweetened inducements, offering prospective tenants 12 months of free rent on a 10-year lease, up from 6 months, Mr. Barrack said.
At the same time, landlords have insisted that past rent increases have not kept up with costs, giving some owners no choice but to sell to speculators.
Shelter thinks the "basic economics of long-term, index-linked renting should stack up" and make it more attractive, not less, to institutional investors and small time landlords alike.
He added: "It's time landlords started paying more of their fair share so first-time buyers could have a level playing field and the government could have the resources to build more social housing".
Assuming an overall reduction in space requirements for office users given intermittent patterns of occupancy and increased sharing of space over time, landlords can plan for less real estate to be better used.
Mr. Pepper insists he harbors no grudge against his one-time landlord.
For a first-time landlord, he added, only about half of lenders will count the rental income toward the total income needed to finance the multifamily purchase.
Post Office Money's "First-time landlord" loan is priced at 2.89% initially, so David's payments would be £400 a month on an interest-only basis.
But one role that Mr. de Blasio quietly and fully inhabits every day is that of small-time landlord, at a modest duplex one block west of his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
