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[-] Nfamwap@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I agree, however, a good landlord who maintains their property and promptly resolves issues will have to invest an element of time and money into the process.

That being said, fuck landlords in general.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

a good landlord [is one] who maintains their property

That job exists - they are called maintenance workers: plumbers, electricians, roofers, handymen...

What makes a landlord a landlord - and not a handyman - is the ownership of property and extraction of rent for its use. It is definitionally not the labor involved in maintaining it.

If landlords want to be paid for maintaining properties they can get jobs as maintenance workers.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The value of a landlord in theory is that they rent at a rate lower than what the mortgage would be, since the renter isn't going to own the property at the end of it. And in turn the renter is wanting short term accommodation. The issue is various conditions have led to home prices always going up.

[-] archomrade@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

The value of a landlord in theory is that they rent at a rate lower than what the mortgage would be

I don't mean to sound rude, but this might as well be fan fiction.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Landlord is the role of owner, not maintainer/manager of the property. Sure, they can be the same sometimes (even then most of the actual work gets outsourced to professionals), but anyone can enlist the help of a real estate manager. We usually tend to call them janitors.

Also there are huge open funds specialising in real estate (for rent revenue, for dev/resell potential, or both) that have like a 100 property managers that just need to keep their tenants happy. What that actually means is that investors pool their moneys into a fund with fund managers that buys real estate, finds tenants that wound pay a higher rent under certain conditions (eg I want a huge concert hall in the center of our office complex), fund has the capital to make it happen & evicts the current tenants (unless they can match the rent of the place with a concert hall but without actually having it).

this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2024
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