I know of many Hounslow buy-to-let landlords who fell into property investing by accident. Many didn’t want to sell their family home when the Hounslow housing market crashed in the Credit Crunch of 2009/10, yet still needed to move (often for work). They thought they would keep their Hounslow family home in case they ever moved back to Hounslow. Yet by keeping it, it couldn’t remain empty (there was still a mortgage to pay on it), so they ended up renting their home out.
And that was the start of many Hounslow buy-to-let landlord’s journeys!