absentee landlord

American  

noun

1. a landlord who owns but is not resident in a property.

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absentee landlord British  

noun

1. a landlord who does not live in or near a property from which he draws an income

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Example Sentences

Critics have described him as an absentee landlord, but he also became an accidental landlord.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2023

City officials even went to the trouble of serving an absentee landlord in Israel.

From Washington Times • Feb. 6, 2021

Some absentee landlord still hasn’t removed a mattress dumped in front of a burned-out townhouse on Hebron Avenue.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2020

In early July, a little more than a week after the inspection, tenants held a rally and press conference where several detailed their poor living conditions and what they said was an absentee landlord.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2018

I have been a vagabond, absentee landlord, and I am packed full of sins up to my throat.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann