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Quote by: BobbyO  Landlords maintain and keep the property up to some sort of standard, thereby removing the responsibility from the tenant. The tenant is free to direct his talents and efforts in other directions. Its a win-win for both parties. |
Many landlords do not do this. But the crucial point you seem to miss is that landlords aren't necessary to maintain and upkeep a building. The people living there can take care of these things as they see fit. The landlord is merely an entity of legally imposed rights, one of which is to to draw money out of people for no absolutely necessary reason (other than a lust for exploitation, though I'm sure not all landlords live without guilt).
In the grand sense, it is a lose-lose situation, I think. The landlord is a thief, and so is the tenant, for they are contributing to the build-up of a massive state program of theft of land that could otherwise be commonly held (the massive theft exists, whether we're talking about municipalities or the state in general). The landlord must also always be in the position to breathe down a tenants neck, to constantly threaten the tenant with eviction. In other words, to be cruel and sadistic. The tenant gets a house (or a small room) because land is not allowed to be available for free, and thus must agree with what is essentially a form of servitude.
And none of this is necessary---an ELEMENTARY point that I must emphasize again and again. People don't need to do this to live somewhere. The need for this state of affairs is a total fiction.
Grandpa h.