Does having an AirBNB setup make someone deserving of the guillotine or does that only apply to owners of multiple houses? What about apartments?

Please explain your reasoning as well.

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    Being a landlord is in fact, work.

    Simply owning a property is called being a real estate investor. You can invest in property without even setting foot in it.

    But maintaining it, interacting with tenants, etc is all work and that’s what a landlord does. As such, people should get paid for their work.

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      Again, you’re wrong. “Landlord” sn’t work.

      landlord

      a person or organization that owns a room, building, or piece of land that someone else pays rent to use

      You can’t just make up you’re own definition of words. A landlord can outsource all of that to a management company and still be a landlord.

      Maintenance is work and people should be paid for work. However, the landlord will get paid regardless of who does it. Thats because “landlord” isn’t work which is why “landlording” isn’t a verb.

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        “Landlording” is a word. It’s the act of performing the work of a landlord.

        Anyone can pay someone else to do work. But the act of hiring others and making sure they’re doing their job is still work.

        The majority of landlords are known as “mom and pop” which means they only have a few rentals. Many small landlords don’t hire a large team because there’s not enough money coming in from the rental to do so.

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          No, you can’t just make up words either. It’s deliberately misused slang, at best. Even then, I didn’t say it was or wasn’t a word. Please try and keep the sophistry to a minimum. I said it wasn’t a verb as “landlord” isn’t a job and “landlording” isn’t a doing word.

          That’s recruitment, not being a landlord. Recruitment is work.

          Regardless of what names they may or may not have, owning something, in of itself, isn’t a job.

          You’re making this seem a lot harder than it actually is.

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            Being a landlord IS a job. Being a landlord involves work, and work is a job. This is very simple.

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              No, owning something, in of itself, isn’t a job. For example, you own the device on which you’re typing you’re utter nonsense. Is you owning your device a job?

              Have you ever seen a job vacancy for “landlord”?

              No, of course not. Thats why “landlord” isn’t a job.

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                Being a landlord is a self-employed job. People don’t advertise for self-employed jobs. They do those jobs themselves!

                Sounds like you’re the one with the ignorance on the topic.

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                  Owning something isn’t a job, even if you stamp your feet and strop about it really hard. Thats why no definition of the word defines it as a job. Stop making up meanings for words, its pathetic.

                  Landlord

                  a person or organization that owns a building or an area of land and is paid by other people for the use of it:

                  NOT A JOB.