where landlords feel that the tenants are extremely lucky to have them

This pisses me off so much! I've even seen it posted on Lemmy and I wouldn't be surprised if a few show up here with their "without me these people would be on the street!" rhetoric. Without landlords there would be lower competition, lower demand, and lower prices. I think these people forget there was a point in time that houses were less expensive than cars and people paid them off in a few years. This was before "income property" was a concept.