Some landlords just collect the rents and (maybe) fix the faucets. Others change the world. A gold star goes to real estate developer John K. Freeman who transformed a seedy apartment complex into a thriving community with educational resources for struggling families.

Oh to be loved like landlord David Berry of New South Wales, Australia. While so many landlords (and landladies) are feared and scorned, Berry won the affection of tenants who erected an enormous granite monument in his honor.

Poor Mrs. Hudson. The often-overlooked landlady rented rooms to the worse of all possible tenants, the untidy and eccentric Sherlock Holmes.

Landladies are not evil, but Hollywood thinks they are.