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Literally renting a home is not a service. Service creates something of a value, and adds it to the world. What is the property rent's "service"? Did they replace furniture with gold in the recent years? Or given the rent hikes, did the gave you a blowjob or smthing, as a part of the "service"?
Look, I get the sentiment.
But conceptually, landlords do present a service.
There is time value in being able to call a singular person and say 'my stove is broken' and not have to do anything else.
Yes you can do it yourself if you have the time and skill, it is a hassle finding the right stove, at the right price, getting it delivered or picking it up, finding, hiring, and going under contract with individual people to do installation, managing warranties, etc.
A lot of people don't want to do that, a lot of people are also comfortable paying a premium to have someone do stuff that they don't want to do.
There is value in being a broker, and that is a landlords primary job, the maintenance and responsibilities are abstracted away to the renter.
I really hate to burst your bubble, but I am technically a landlord. I own a duplex, I rent out the other half to my brother and fiance, and we're all paying the same amount into the mortgage, but for all legal purposes I'm their landlord.
In my experience as a renter and a landlord, if we're talking about the convenience factor, it's still easier to be a landlord.
That "one phone call to fix a thing", assuming they bother to actually fix it, is one phone call for a landlord to just get some guy to do it. So that's the same amount of effort.
Landlords usually have to put in even less effort, because there's entire companies who's job it is to be property management, so most don't have to even make one phone call to fix anything.
As someone who owns a home now, it's less of a pain than renting. I have been putting work into the house to change it because I can and don't need permission from a landlord to do so. If something is broken I can have someone fix it without having to go through a landlord to decide whether or not to call someone.
So yeah, if there wasn't a homelessness problem and everyone had a house, and some people didn't want to bother with it, maybe I could see in that world a landlord existing like a hotel service or property manager for individuals, but when people are dying in the streets because some greedy corporations and selfish assholes keep all the housing and extort everyone who wants shelter, that's fucked up.
People's problem with landlords isn't about personal convenience, and you should maybe look beyond yourself. It doesn't matter if you find it more personally convenient, it's part of a problem that's killing people, and if you're still cool with that because you think it's slightly easier for you personally, you're a selfish, horrible person.
I'm going to write another comment, because I'm skeptical that you will actually read my original reply.
I think you should self reflect a bit. Your position here was to call me a 'selfish, horrible person' because I have found value in being able to rent a house. All the While you are a landlord yourself, deflecting your responsibility and putting me down, someone, who, for all you knew, was a renter them self (the very class whose necks you step on with your property owning foot).
Now, I'm only using language like that because you you have thrown the stone. But I encourage you to reflect.
Maybe you ought to reread what I said at the end of my comment, because if you are saying that I'm calling you a selfish horrible person, it's because you're admitting to being in favor of a system that systematically kills people because it's personally convenient for you. If you're not actually in favor of it, then there's no insult.