They create housing supply by consuming the housing supply and skimming a profit in the middle.
Nothing unethical about that. Nope.
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If the landlord doesn't increase rent like crazy and just follows the market or under the market is that better? Given that they try to do their best to complete requested repairs and everything to make tenants happy?
That's a property manager, not a landlord. Property managers work to manage the properties, landlords just own stuff and get paid to tell property managers to do it all for them.
Some landlords don't have property managers. Even if they do, what's the harm? Everything still gets fixed on a timely manner and if prices are at or below market
Because now they are draining income from tenants without providing services. Landlords don't work, but get money, not just from thin air, but from the people who live in those places. To pay enough for the landlord and the property manager it requires more money than just a property manager. Not to mention landlords have no one stopping them from just increasing rent if the laws don't stop them and they raise it with other landlords (which is happened right now). What are people going to do? Move? To another place that's just as expensive? Plus moving is expensive by itself.
I see what you are trying to say, but its missing huge chunks of what's happening in actuality.
Sounds like that is trying to provide a fair service. But the landlord-lease arrangement structure will always encourage abuse in the long run due to the power dynamic.
I'm not an academic but maybe a co-owner / management model could be more equitable.
same thing as all other intermediaries, like datacenters buying up server hardware and renting it out.
- one is a neccesity to live, the other quite optional
- housing space in cities is very limited, server hardware is not, it's mass produced based on demand
If it really was the same as all other intermediaries, it would make you wonder why they'd be so scared of answering moral or philosophical questions about landlording that they had to make it into a rule and not just ignore them.
Luckily, we don't have to worry about that problem, as the answer is obvious.
Server hardware isn't constrained in the same way. You can't just build more of the same houses, because the land is already used.
What if you rented out rooms in a house with a datacenter in the basement?
"profession"
No philosophical or ethical questions about the "profession".
Fixed it for you
profession?
Sitting on your ass and collecting a check is hard work, dammit!
In the same way that a tapeworms profession is helping you eat your food