You can distinguish between someone who's paying for a room and paying for an apartment or house with lodger versus tenant.
Is it possible to distinguish between someone who offers a room for rent and offers an apartment or house for rent? Are there any hyponyms for "landlord" that make this distinction?
I checked onelook.com's reverse dictionary, and the thesauri recommended on meta, and didn't find anything.
Best Answer
Well tenant is the antonym of landlord.
From Oxford English Dictionary (OED):
Lodger would also strangely be the closest antonym for lodger.
From OED:
Renter may also apply, depending on how the word is used:
Or host: