Sure. I don’t know how it works in every country but in the UK you have to pay council tax on a property you own, even if you don’t live in it, unless you meet certain exemption criteria that vary by council.
Even if you don’t make a profit on renting a property you don’t live in, having someone else live in it and pay the council tax will mean you don’t lose any money.
€1000 per year is practically nothing. You’d need 25 properties to make a modest living from being a landlord.
But it would mean that you could sit on the property and re-sell it later if you were just buying it as an investment so renting it out wouldn’t be your living, it would probably be something like a retirement plan.
So if renting isn’t your living, hopefully you’d be less likely to be a dick.
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