While my experiences of landlords are not as bad as they have been in the past, my experience is that there are a significant number who fail to grasp their responsibilities in any meaningful way.
As a 'for example'
http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2011/12/15/the-ultimate-illegal-eviction/
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and—and in short you are for ever floored.
Wilkins Micawber, Ch12 David Copperfield
