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The buy to let landlords have an advantage over hard-pressed first-time buyers because they benefit from tax breaks that are not available to owner occupiers. the inland revenue, allows landlords to offset the costs of mortgage interest, letting agency fees, and replacement furniture and repairs, against the tax payable on rental income. regular buyers, however, waved good bye to tax relief on mortgage payments back in 2000 when the government abolished miras. buy-to-let investors are locusts who turn pleasant residential neighbourhoods into desolate wastelands occupied by transient tenants, stopping the growth of stable communities. surely if the governement stopped or limited the number of properties that the buy to lets bought that would stabalise the property market

Yep and time to make "affordable key worker housing" affordable for key workers! !