• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    8 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
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      8 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.