By David Lawrenson

Buy to let investors are guilty of the crime of crowding out first time buyers from the housing market and for destroying communities by filling up whole areas with transitory tenants.

They also make huge and unfair profits from over-generous tax breaks, writes David Lawrenson.

Landlords don't even look after their front gardens and allow tenants to dump all sorts of mattresses and unwanted bulky items thus destroying the look of an area.

Are these claims true and what should landlords answer next time they are assailed?