Former landlord here: I was living abroad when an opportunity to buy into a condo complex came up. I would have to buy before a single brick had even been set down, but it meant I was paying less and had some control over how things were built. I took the chance and put a lot of my money into it. I couldn't make a penny out of it whilst it was being built, and I couldn't live in it either. This wasn't a problem since I was living and working in another country at the time.

When it was built I started renting it out because I wasn't ready to move yet. The place I was living in was nowhere near as good as the place I owned, so my tenants were living better than me. Some of the tenants were cool, some of them were cunts. It really hurt to see how one particular group had fucked up part of what is essentially my first home, then run off without paying the last month's rent. But, you know, that's the reality of being a landlord. I could just leave my apartment empty, though then I couldn't pay all my bills.

The point of my story is that it's going to be different to other landlords, and definitely different to the woman in the video. We're not one group, just like people who rent aren't one group. Lumping exploitative sack of shit landlords with all the others is like lumping deadbeat fucks who run out on their rent with all renters. I was a landlord partly through circumstance, it was the choice I had to make. Same for some renters. Overall I was happy. I family that couldn't afford to by my place was able to live in it for a while. Some students didn't have to live in a shithole whilst they were at university. These people had a really positive experience living in a place they wouldn't otherwise be able to. Now I live there. I don't see anything wrong with this, and it's also a completely different world from "I love raising rent". This woman has nothing in common with me, we shouldn't be lumped in as "landlords".