Tenants commonly called Renters, should Landlords be called Owners?

[RonnieShinbal88]

Lord Mayor.

 

[TomEdison]

With landlords/landladies only the male version seems to be used, 'renter' is gender neutral. It's an archaic term on that basis, if you convert it to 'Landperson' it doesn't really work, which just highlights the flaws in the term and the reliance on the word 'lord' and all that entails, inequality, imbalance of power etc.

In landlord and tenant law, property law, etc, "landlord" is a gender-neutral term. Landladies operate pubs or boarding houses, but women who rent out land or buildings are (and always have been) landlords.