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Of all the anti-landlord arguments this has to be one of the dumbest. Of course a person is going to try to protect their income. I'm not a landlord but I'm not going to let anyone jeopardize my job.
And? Do you donate all the excess money you have at the end of the month to the homeless?
It's dumb as fuck. The original argument is if a landlord doesn't take on the financial burden and give their property to someone for free then they are somehow evil. It's so stupid. And I don't know what the law is where you are but in the UK a landlord can't evict without a court order and that takes time.
You make a good point. The system does incentivise ruthlessness
The landlords don't deserve that property anyways but what financial burden? Upkeep of the property that is anyways put upon the tenant? Taxes for the property that is anyways paid by the tenants rent? Repairs that are anyways paid by the tenants (even if you pay for repairs you would be using the rent money one way or another)
Or the financial burden of paying a mortgage for the property that well the tenants themselves could have gotten themselves (obviously if you are renting you probably don't have enough up front money to get a mortgage but they sure as hell could pay the monthly sum)
The fact that you can even evict someone is awful enough doesn't matter that there are barriers to it
You can't really judge what a person does or doesn't deserve without at least knowing the individual.
The one I clearly described in the comment you just replied to.
"Job"
Why did you put the word job in quotations?
Because landlord isn't a job, and many don't go through the effort of even pretending it is.
If they're a landlord that also does carpentry jobs on a house, that's what they are. The landlord part isn't a job.
If they just collect rent and occasionally pay contractors, they're just as unemployed as a welfare collector that occasionally pays for a therapist or prostitute.
They're absolutely not self-employed.
They're just holding housing hostage for ransom.
I never called it a job.
Imagine relying on labor for income under capitalism lmao
Edit: /s
Collecting rent as an income is different than having a job.
So?