Some people do quite well out of it, without being world-class toerags like some we could name, or the gothic characters with rough Oldsmobiles, Alsatians, baseball bats and a couple of fruit machines in the boot that I used to see in Notting Hill at the turn of the fifties/sixties.
You have to be the right sort of person though, hard-working, efficient, calm, philosophical and not too greedy. You need a good eye for troublesome customers too, if you move outside friends and family for tenants. It isn't a licence to print money. Even if it was it would be well beyond my own talents.
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