Exactly.
One of my coworkers owns several rentals. All low-rent. Headache after headache, stressed continually, always leaving to put out this fire or that one. I've messed with it in the past (in the form of property management) and it's not for me. I am mostly a hard person to work with. If someone don't like the way I say something, they can go on down the road and it won't bother me. Got that from my dad who was a veteran in the '60's, grew up in a VERY poor family (same as I did) so whatever came out of his mouth was final. The downside? Renters have more rights than the landlords do, or it seems. You can't just kick someone out because they're on drugs (at least not here), and since drug use is rampant all over the place here, it makes for a huge issue-both from a legal standpoint and moral standpoint.....and yes I feel quite strongly against use of any illegal drug. Alcohol as well. The place I managed for a little bit, one of the tentants was a terrible alcoholic. We warned him several times of his abusive and destructive behavior, but it doesn't matter since the drug altered his mindstate and he was totally addicted to it. A lot of the house was damaged because of it. Sheetrock walls, ceilings, bathroom destroyed, etc. The house was a non-smoking house but again, the alcohol changes your mind so it didn't matter to him. After he was finally able to be evicted, we had to take him to court for the damages done to the house. Problem with renters....most of them don't own anything and don't have any money, and the laws are such that you really can't do anything by suing them, which meant about $8,000 came out of the property owner's pocket to fix the damage. But on the opposite side, renting is the only way a lot of people think they can own a home and that's false. There are homes on the market that are priced low enough that most anyone can own, and a lot of times cheaper than renting. The issue therein is that many of those homes get bought up immediately by....landlords and companies that rent them out. So if one pops up, you gotta be real quick!