What are they expecting for a long term family investment?

OG family members die then children who see $800 a month and the expense of keeping things fixed change it to $2400?

Is it reasonable based on market or reasonable based on what people can earn in the local area?

Are they abiding by landlord tenant laws?

Are they under the tabling things?

Lastly how much impact are they having on the larger market?

This is a nuanced issue. We shape policy on the abusers in the market, then we curb financialization and big businesses out of the market, and lastly we strongly protect the people who could be homeless. Lastly if this family survives all the policy, lowering of future returns on investment, and being a law abiding reasonable landlord. Then they are cool.

Being a business leader/owner shouldn't automatically put you above others so you can abuse others it should be a job in which you provide a service that can be competed against and shouldn't lead to suffering. If the job you do leads to suffering of others at the profit of your self then it needs to be a subsidized or at service provided by the government or going back to pre 1970s a non for profit business. Although I don't trust those right now because of our oligarchs abuse of systems.

Yes, this is Lemmy.

Personally, it only applies to huge corporations OR to smaller landlords who are abusive. Just because being a landlord isn't always shitty and evil doesn't mean we can't be upset about the scenarios where it is. How much of that $512B do you think is going to the good type of landlord you describe?

I don't think the responsibility is on the individual to provide housing for another but to advocate/agitate for a society where one doesn't have to. One thing to keep in mind is that what is reasonable is relative to what can be done, and a post-industrial society doesn't have to have necessities be scarce.

Don't expect rationality in this thread.