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I think the depiction of the landlord is not exactly correct.
Landlords are usually miserable, constantly worried about missing payments and mortgages and property values and blaming apartment dilapidation on the tenant. I'm yet to interact with a happy and fully mentally stable landlord.
Good, they should drop dead
Oh yeah im sure all the poor landlords are struggling so hard
Being a lazy piece of shit who steals labor from workers is not mutually exclusive with being miserable. In fact I suspect they are interlinked, a lot of rich assholes also seem to be in constant mental anguish even though they don't do anything useful. This is not to provoke pity for them, rather to clarify that I think a certain amount of labor is required for a person to live a complete and happy life.
You can’t be a class traitor and have peace. Both are always paranoid something bad will happen (to them) so one will kill you before it does while the other will evict you before it does.
I guess this happens when you go full time landlord, no?
I have an old friend who's a landlord and he's almost always been super chill. He was an old school cannabis grower and bought all his properties using revenue from his gardens. Lives in small tourist/retirement town in Southern Oregon where property value is really high, housing options very limited.
He stopped growing about 10 years ago and now travels the world about half the year and manages the properties the other half. He's got it almost set and forget. He's also a seasoned carpenter/builder so does all his own repairs and renovations.