How to combat the growing hatred for Landlords?

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How to combat the growing hatred for Landlords?

Nathan GesnerBusiness Member
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Real Estate Broker · Cody, WY · Member since 2010 · 28k+ posts · 41k+ votes

Below is just one example of the many websites and forums popping up around the country, depicting landlords as greedy, evil monsters. What's most interesting is the growing number of people that believe housing is a right and it is immoral for anyone to have more than one house.

How would you combat this type of attitude?

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Marc Winter
Real Estate Broker · Northeast PA · Member since 2017 · 2k+ posts · 2k+ votes
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Food, clothing, and shelter are human NEEDS.  They are not human rights.

We still live in a capitalist system (at least for the moment) and in that system people that provide a service are rewarded.  The greater the service, the greater the reward.

If they provide poor service, the market will reward them by going somewhere else for the service.  Back before big government programs, poor folks in need could get help from family, friends, or the church (or wherever they worship).  When the government set up a social 'safety net', people started taking it for granted, and it became a way of life for many.  Now many feel that it is their right to have shelter given to them for free.

I guess it's just too difficult for some folks to understand.  If someone works hard to provide a service to the public when they make a profit some see that as obscene, immoral, and just wrong.

Landlords have been looked down upon with a stigma since the first Neanderthal rented out a cave that he dug out with his own hands and club. 

We can only help the poor when we earn a profit and have something left over to give to a worthy charity of our choice.  That does not necessarily include tenants that cannot or will not pay their rent.

That being said, treat everyone equally and with respect. Do not judge them, even if they judge you.  Hold your head up and keep moving forward.

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