> I'm not sure what you mean when you say these people have an 'advantage'? People who buy-to-let are not in the rental-income business, they are in the busine

> I'm not sure what you mean when you say these people have an 'advantage'? People who buy-to-let are not in the rental-income business, they are in the business of acquiring property, because property prices are sky rocketing. People with a job trying to get on the property ladder pay mortgage interest with wages. People with second, third etc. properties deduct mortgage interest as an expense.