Agreed. I've also found myself discussing how landlords - or at least professional ones - seem to be in a different social class than tenants, and the ones that

Agreed. I've also found myself discussing how landlords - or at least professional ones - seem to be in a different social class than tenants, and the ones that aren't have been the most pleasant in my experience. I don't entirely mean in terms of wealth. It does something to a person to be a landlord in ways I cannot fully explain. In almost every other situation, to be "rent-seeking" is considered a bad thing. It may or may not apply to real-estate, but the landlords I've met just seem to think differently about people and homes in a way I cannot understand.