Nitpick: Rent-seeking is a specific economic activity that doesn’t mean “buying property with the intent to rent it out”. Rent-seeking is an activity where the

Nitpick: Rent-seeking is a specific economic activity that doesn’t mean “buying property with the intent to rent it out”. Rent-seeking is an activity where the perpetrator creates legal barriers that result in them collecting money without providing anything of value. Many people hate on landlords, but unless they’re also actively restricting new supply, they’re not rent-seeking as the term is defined.