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Put your spare room to work: the lodger is back

Forget Rising Damp and Rigsby: a new generation of live-in landlords is beating the credit crunch, discovers Heather Macleod

HEATHER MacLEOD

The image of the man in the fingerless mittens and tatty cardigan may be long gone, but the landlord and the live-in lodger are upon us once again.