Doesn't matter how you try to justify it...

Replace Christian with person

You can't be a good anything and be a landlord. At least if we use the moral meaning of "good".
- You could only ask for as much rent as you need to cover the expenses for whatever you're renting out.
  
  Okay, but why do we need the landlord then? We'd just need a custodian.
  
  The issue with that is that you're still making money on a human right. That property is gonna gain value and eventually you'll be able to sell it for more than you bought it for, all on the back of the tenants. Unless you're planning to give the tenants the house when they pay the value of it but at that point there's no reason for you the own it to begin with.
- I think you could be a good Dalek and a landlord
- You can’t be a good anything and be a landlord
  A good parasite?
  
  That's an odd spelling of "capitalist".

If people actually followed the teachings of Jesus, it would be a very difficult world. Christianity is supposed to be socialist as fuck.
- Landlording is fine by christian teachings but making a profit and getting rich by it is a bit iffy
- It wouldn't be difficult at all. In fact it would be a true utopia.
  Problem is gods aren't real and human instincts prefer selfishness and tribalism over "socialist" ideas.
  Humans love the idea of socialism until it comes down to "us vs them" then socialism is the greatest threat there is.
  
  That's not true. You'd have to gauge your eyes out for lusting after a woman. And women? They aren't allowed to reject their husband's sexual advances. Which doesn't sound extreme until it turns out hes got a scat fetish.

I had a good landlord, so they’re definitely out there. Mine didn’t raise my rent more than $50 in a decade of living there, and was pretty great and quick about repairs. I am sorry others have had the experience they’ve had, and I think it’s more to do with private equity buying real estate, or some kind of landlord with 10+ units etc. I think the mom/pop landlord with the odd house they rent out when their family isn’t using it are pretty chill. I am sure there are examples to prove me wrong though
- You're right, there are good examples out there. The point is they're statistical anomalies not the rule. Landlords by and large serve very little societal purpose.

- You can actually be a good landlord. In theory. But at the point where you actually become a good landlord, it's more of a public service than something you actually make money on.
  
  But at the point where you actually become a good landlord, it’s more of a public service than something you actually make money on.
  Why is that a but? They're still a landlord, right? I really don't get the attempt of separation of the same thing.
- Are you the same person that always claims they know very nice police officers whenever someone says "ACAB"?
  
  I’m familiar with some positively pleasant police officers that help around the local elementary school. All the adults and kids love them.
  That doesn’t make me reject ACAB though. I don’t know what those cops have been up to in the 99% of their working hours where I don’t see them. Normally nice people do horrible shit all the time even without qualified immunity!
  And even if they are as squeaky clean as cops be, the saying isn’t “a few good apples purifies the bunch.”
  
  All Carsalemen ARE Bastards.
  I say defund the dealerships.
- Your lifetime of experiences does not consistute a meaningful sample size when compared to everyone else's. It can leave you feeling or believing something completely different than everyone else, for good reason, but that doesn't make it true.
  Most landlords own property because it is a vehicle for wealth growth. And if someone owns something because it makes them money every year they are likely attempting to or interested in maximizing that return. That means cheap maintenance, little to no improvements, and an increasing price tag like an investment vehicle instead of a decreasing price tag like a consumable good.
  If landlords were systemically good, if the overwhelmingly majority of landlords were good, rent would go down every year as the building and utilities get used - only going back up after real meaningful renovations.
  My last flat had an awful kitchen design, very aesthetic but a nightmare to actually cook in. Can you imagine living in your own home and hating something you Interface with everyday multiple times and not changing it despite knowing you have the money and skills to do so? I can't. But because I have a landlord, because people have landlords they are stuck with the decisions of someone who either makes absolutely or relatively bad decisions all the time. My current flat the bathroom is a nightmare to live with because a quarter of the room is a bathtub and yet there's no place to put your toothbrush or plug in a water pick/hair dryer/razor. I'd happily change the entire bathroom, renovate it to include a decent sized shower, add electrical outlets and kitchen sink that isn't just a bowl - but again I can't because that isn't putting money into my landlords pockets and because they're not planning on living here ever again (if they ever did) they don't care how it is to live in. That's what being a landlord does to someone naturally, it's understandable but the reality is you care less about a place you're not living in, you're spending a lot of money for a place you're not living in so you want to make that money back so you can improve the place you are actually living in so you're naturally getting more stingy and cheap at your other properties, and over time the incentives of the system realign your values and behaviors.
  No, I don't think your lifetime of "good landlord stories" is a meaningful data point to change what the overwhelming majority of people experience every day of their lives nor the systemic logic/reality of the situations. Good people can become landlords with good intent but they can't stay good and be a landlord because being a landlord is inherently an anti-productive thing to be in society - overtime the incentives change people into doing things that hurt others for their own interest.
- I think you're mixing up "there are bad landlords" with "landlording is bad". I'm sure there were good slave owners as well but it doesn't mean slavery was good. In someways landlords are modern slave owners. They can treat you humanely but at the end of the day they're taking a slice of your money just so you could have a roof over your head.
  Hypothetically, if tomorrow your government would say that whatever house/apartment you live in right now is legally yours to keep would you miss your landlord? I very much doubt it.
  
  Are you saying there should only be owning housing? What do the people that can't afford a house or flat do? Is it entirely the states job to build housing then and give housing away?
  
  Well, that comparison in no way minimizes the trauma of slavery.

Christianity was invented by landlords, maybe not the Christ parts specifically but the rest for sure
- Ianity was invented by landlords

People think the oxymoron is between 'Good Christian' and 'Landlord'.
When it is in fact between 'Good' and 'Christian'.
- This is ridiculous. There are a lot of sanctimonious fundamentalists in the world, and there are a lot of genuinely good people who identify as Christian. Some of the best people I know are Christians. They're not inherently hateful bigots, in fact I'd wager those are a loud minority.
  
  There are good people who are Christian, sure. But they're only good people because they are bad Christians. They (their denomination) have cherry picked the least contentious passages and ignored the most hateful.
  A 'Good Christian' is a creature of bigotry and contradiction, who spares no bias for which passages are morally good or bad. In some sense, The Westborough Baptist Church embrace many of the worst aspects of Christianity, they are Good Christians (but bad people).
- It's not the people, it's indoctrination. They're just as much of a victim as anyone else.
  
  I'm keenly aware of that as I have recovered from religion.
  The fact remains that being a Christian is at odds with being a good person. Bigotry is baked in to Christianity. If you want to cherry pick the good parts, that's great, but it doesn't erase the suffering which is still being perpetrated due to the explicit wording in the bible.
  There are warlords in Africa who justify enslavement because the bibles explicitly permits it, and never makes any effort to clarify that slavery should no longer be permitted.
  You would think that at some point, God would want to convey to everyone that slavery was a symptom of the times, thousands of years ago, and is no longer permitted as of the New Testament, but that never happens.

- That's the neat part. Housing doesn't need to be a commodity, it can be a right.
- Fought over since before most "commodities" existed , and maybe most religions -at many scales from the world, to countries, to a sopt by the river bank, or the comfy chair in the living room - including by various human and non-human species.
  Pursuit of economic and political power though control/acquisition of land just has so much glorious and colourful heritage; it's no mere pleb of a commodity .
  Something most everyone could use just a little bit more of.
  Not everyone could use more cars and tangerines.
  cars and tangerines have a generally more competetive market of sustitutes.
  Land doesn't really have substitues.
  If i could build a house/farm out of tangerines without any land needed, i'd get your point,
- There is no difference. Many people here just do not like the concept.
  
  Oh, are we ready to talk about the morality of options and stocks?