In my country it's bad in a different way - there are no single owner landlords that actually manage their lads, they all hand it over to a management company.

I miss the days where you could find a landlord who was an old Italian dude who would manage it all himself. My parents had multiple rentals that was like that. One of them the landlord lived across the street. And all of them the properties were well maintained and we could actually get stuff fixed. And half the time we'd end up staying there 2-6 years longer than the lease agreement.

Now you can't find that to save your life, our current house, sure rent is comparatively low as we got in before the rental crisis. But they don't fix shit and when they do, it's half assed and dad ends up having to fix the fix.

The lack of communication and human connection between tenant and landlord results in problematic treatment and negligence. That connection honestly keept the landlord honest. We were friends with all our single owner self managed landlords, and any inspections we had usually meant cracking a beer in the backyard.