There seems to be a perception, actually particularly on here, that being a landlord is a gateway to magic free money, and maybe a lack of consideration that it is basically a _job_, working with risky rather illiquid assets.

I kind of thought this belief was a young-person thing, though; I'm a little surprised to see someone my age going all-out on it, because they were presumably around for the great financial crisis, when, ah, bad things happened to a lot of overleveraged amateur landlords.