My uncle has somehow acquired seven buy-to-let houses in Hull, having never spent more than seventy grand on any of them, and he reckons that when they are paid off in eight years they will provide him with an income of four grand a month. Now, he never said whether that was before or after all the costs associated with having them, but that is still pretty decent for basically doing fuck all. It can't actually be that simple can it? Why isn't everybody with some spare cash doing it?