There's an even more obvious way to do this...
This keeps coming up in different threads and it puzzles me why many people seem to think that buying a rental property (usually having done zero analysis of a "business plan" for how it's going to work) and thus concentrating a significant, if not majority, chunk of their net work in a single asset class/geographic region/risk profile is appropriate for their needs and preferable to alternative investment options. (At least you don't seem to have dismissed the latter as others tend to do because "I don't understand shares" etc.).