0 a person who rents out a house, apartment, or farm to someone, but never or almost never visits it --
1 a person who rents a property to someone, but who does not live in or visit the property: --
Absentee landlords who fail to maintain their properties are bringing down property prices in the neighbourhood.
Are we not in the position of an absentee landlord who finds squatters on his premises?
Are the tenants living there under this unknown, absentee landlord going to be better off than they are under the present landlord?
A real and pernicious problem in their areas is the private landlord—the absentee landlord who buys up properties and milks the housing benefit system.
Of course, the usual way for any tenants to report repair items for attention to an absentee landlord is through a regular rent collector.
It takes weeks and months to get hold of the absentee landlord in order to obtain a court action.
It seems to me that a resident, as opposed to an absentee landlord, is of substantial benefit to everyone.
Much has been made of the phrase "absentee landlord".
He refused to take it down and his absentee landlord could not care one way or the other.
