As the parent poster said, most landlords are small-timers, but they get caricatured as New York slumlords scarfing down caviar while their tenants flinch over continually sparking bare wires flicker from a partially torn down kitchen wall. We have seen how the legislation passed for relief got warped to pay out to the big timers (just think of those hotel chains) instead of focusing on the smaller folks.

But when I bring up points like this, I just get the "well, if we abolished private property and everyone had a government-issued home ..." And the parent poster has had experience with that kind of comeback.