If, like me, you would dread having to collect rent, a managing agent would charge up to 15% of gross revenue to do the work for you.

Choosing to hire a middleman will have cost implications, but will help both of you avoid the awkwardness of having to collect rent.

You buy a room in a hotel development, usually for between 65,000 and 100,000, and collect rent on it, with annual yields of between 8 and 10 per cent.

Some of them possessed land in theii villages as farmers, and had hereditary right to collect rent from the village land.

Typically, the affordable triple decker homes attracted live-in landlords who would collect rent from the other two apartments.