An Auckland teacher who spoke out about life as a landlord to shatter the "evil property investor" cliche says she's delighted with the "phenomenal" response to her message.
Sian Draper took to Facebook to debunk the belief that landlords are all rich people who charge their tenants too much rent.
Her post discussed how she had scrimped and saved and sacrificed luxuries to buy a rental property three hours outside of Auckland.
"Over the past few years I've got a bit upset, like a lot of other property investors have, over the popular narrative that we don't all deserve what we get, that we're getting rich on the back of our poor hard-working tenants," she told the Herald.
"I wanted to get the message out that it's not luck, we're not rich, we're ordinary people who have ordinary jobs who are prepared to sacrifice to put in really hard work to get a little bit ahead," she said.
"We're not who you think we are."
