• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Real estate Management is about rent collection, property maintenance, coordination of finding new tenants, etc. There’s labor there.

      Many single property landlords are also real estate management and handymen of their own properties. And that part of the situation is actual labor.

      In common parlance, people will often conflate these. But I find this dilutes the harm caused by actual landlords, which are mostly large corporations that simply own property and collect income.

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      20 hours ago

      A landlord can pay a manager to take care of the properties they own for them.

      A manager, on the other hand, cannot pay for someone else to “landlord” for them.

      Landlording is about ownership, management is about labor.