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"Person tries to parody landlords to make them seem almost cartoonishly evil, but seems out of touch because they are just describing everyday landlords and things happening all around".

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"My landlord's 34% rent rise felt like an eviction" - BBC on MSN.com|6 days ago

"UK households who rent face £200 being added to payments" - Birmingham Mail on MSN.com|12 days ago

"Rents now 'unaffordable' across most of the UK" - PropertyWire|5 days ago - "Monthly rents have been labelled 'unaffordable' in every region of the UK except for the North East, data from analytics company TwentyCi has revealed. The ONS [Office of National Statistics] defines a rental property as affordable if the median rent is 30% or less of the median income of private renting households."

"UK Cities See Rents Surge More Than 40% in Four Years" - Financial News|7 days ago

"Revealed - where rent has risen over 30% in the past year" - lettingagenttoday.co.uk|7 days ago - "The figures show that, across Britain, the average monthly cost of renting has increased by 8.7% over the last 12 months"

"UK tenants hit by highest inflation in September" - The Financial Times|5 days ago