[sdenton4]

The term rent selling stats with 'rent' for a reason. The maintenance on any single property is miniscule compared with the rent extracted. Added over many properties, sure, might be a lot of work. But you're also getting a lot of rent.

The bigger part of the problem is the tendency to pass on the tax on passive income to the tenant.

[will_hughes]

This is also why when someone has enough capital to buy enough properties to extract a full-time wage out of the rent, you can be sure they're also not going to be doing the work themselves.

They'll offload it to a property manager/real estate agent to do all that work.