I've been treated way worse by large scale apartment complexes than small landlords. But i've also been treated bad by small landlords.

I've had a mom&pop landlord charge me cleaning fees for trash the other 3 roommates + one dead roommate left behind since I was the last one there. I've had corporate landlords require me to mail my check 4 blocks over rather than take it in the office, or be charged a 50 dollar fee to pay online, then try to raise the rent almost 300 bucks to renew. while the window leaked like a sieve every time it rained with no promise of being fixed. I've had corporate slumlords reduce trash pickup which drove mice into every apartment.

I've had a landlord who just rented his moms old house to college students at like 1800/mo for 3 bedroom house with a giant basement with a bar. He'd take cash payments at his house so all 6 of us could just throw money in a pile. He'd then talk to me like a human, show me this weird small hover craft he pulled out of the woods to restore, and was generally an alright dude. We hid a cat from him and he "believed" us when we said we were watching him, and barely caused a fuss when the basement reeked of weed when he was showing the place. some people in the house made things harder for him but he was a pretty honest dude.

I currently have a property manager interface for a private owner and I think she's just a little simple and over stretched. They only raised the rent 50 bucks this year after rent being stagnant for like 3 years.

I hate landlords but my experience has been mixed. Nationalize all large corporate apartment complexes. Only allow small landlords to rent out 1 property max that they inherited or moved out from and enforce rent control measures on everything.

send landlords to the wall on a case by case basis is what i'm saying.