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Umm repairs, marketing, replacements, renovation/remodeling, taxes. I never rented a property because I thought the margins seemed slim. People who are agreeing with this likely have never owned a home before.
Low margins just means big corporations have th advantage, because they make profit through volume.
If renting wasn't profitable at all, landlords wouldn't rent.
And in many cases they don't. Which is one reason why ten percent of US houses are vacant.
But that misses the point, which is that housing should not be a for-profit industry.
If you repair a house, if you maintain a house, if you renovate a house, you have the right to be paid for your labor. Any profit you "earn" from rental payments, above that amount, is money you didn't earn - it's money you were able to extort from your tenants because you have a piece of paper saying you own the house and your tenants do not.
Whether a landlord makes $1 profit or $10000 profit, that profit is still "earned" by collecting rent on property, not by creating any value for anyone.
Housing is a human right. And rent collection is theft.
Nobody is against modest fees for upkeep. Landlords don’t need to exist for people to pay some fees to maintain a property.
You're completely missing the point here. Yes, being a landlord in some areas can be practically unprofitable... but those landlords aren't the problem, the greedy/corporate landlords that buy large amounts of housing for the express purpose of turning a profit are.
That said, I know what upkeep on a house is like, and I understand that it's not for everybody. But, we should have more people owning homes so that they can cultivate the skills necessary to be less reliant on landlords, or we could have the upkeep and maintenance be part of some social program(s), enabling more people to be homeowners.