Probably depends on where you're at; I found it's shockingly common even for larger agencies and landlords to just break the law in the UK. You can tell them "t

Probably depends on where you're at; I found it's shockingly common even for larger agencies and landlords to just break the law in the UK. You can tell them "this is the law, you can't do that", and they will just brazenly unashamed say "I know, we're going to try it anyway". Never-ever make the mistake of anthropomorphising any landlord of any size in the UK. I strongly suspect that David Icke was right all along with his lizard people, but just got the wrong demographic. That said, it's certainly true that with individual landlords you risk a lot more variety; you can end up with a normal friendly fella, or an absolutely crazy nutjob, or anything in-between. In general my experiences have been much much better with small-time landlords.