That's bullshit. Building maintenance per tenant is on the order of single-digit hours of work per week per tenant, and that's for landlords that bother to show

That's bullshit. Building maintenance per tenant is on the order of single-digit hours of work per week per tenant, and that's for landlords that bother to show up. If your argument is that they provide the services of a handyman, then they can bill hourly like a handyman--i.e. live near or below the poverty line like most handymen. To say that there's a disconnect between the labor and the income is an understatement; the labor is simply negligible in comparison to the income. The number of tenant properties one would have to manage to reach even a 40-hour workweek average is quite large, and by that point, most landlords would hire a super.