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Nah, I got a landlord that sucks so much money from me that he's nice enough to do it for free!
The property maintenance the landlord did is actual labor. This doesn't imply 2K/mo or any more than what it would cost to pay someone to maintain the property is justified.
I'm just trying to illustrate there's a difference between the income the landlord steals as a landlord and the income they may earn from labor. Same exists with many petite bourgeoisie small business owners who do some amount of labor, but also exploit the labor of others.
One month ago my landlord offered me a deal, and it is a good deal, to buy this place for $67k. If I'd got a loan when I moved in here I would easily own it and have plenty money to spare if that was the price back then.
This house has 17 steps to go from the front door to the one car driveway. Underneath is a fucking cave. I tried to make a workshop out of it but it's sad and has no ventilation. Hell the main house has no ventilation. The fucking structure is held up by concrete blocks, unglued, unsealed, at places shimmed with pieces of wood and bricks. The foundation is about to slip off the hill.
That's just a story. You may not be very different from me but I've had some incredibly shitty landlords. I've lived in a cockroach and bedbug infested shithole. I've lived in terrible places but that one takes the cake. They were taking half my income to live in that place.
I know you mean well but please don't defend landlords. If anyone owns more than one home they need to be taxed to the extreme.
Nothing I said is a defense of landlords.