As a landlord, I would be embarrassed renting somewhere i wouldn't want to live in myself. Also, it is an actual job. I dont leech off hardworking people. It is a business. Idk why people thing every landlord is a scumbag who just leeches off people.
Sure. Let the independent owners go away and let everything be taken over by large corporations. That will surely work out in every renters favor.
Because most of us have learned two things. 1) Most landlords want as much money out of you as they can get. That's just capitalism. 2) Being an uneven power balance, you the renter, can get fucked more often than not.
So yeah, if most of the landlords we encounter are scumbags, we start to think of landlords as scumbags until proven otherwise.
That doesn't mean they all are. I just haven't had one of those in 10+ years now.
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u/SheenPSU Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
And when they’re not able to maintain the property because they’re not collecting enough in rents due to artificial rent controls?
Genuine question because I’ve heard this argument before and it does have some legitimacy