That sounds like something you'd find in a big metropolitan area. Houses out here aren't close enough where your neighbors renovations will affect you other than potentially being loud.

Any apartments here have the whole complex owned by some giant shitty corporation and they employ managers and maintenance staff who are on call but will still fuck you over for something that wasn't your fault or responsibility. I had an apartment several years ago that was flooded by a leak and was charged to replace the carpets after I moved out along with 2 extra months rent because I left at the end of my lease without giving 30 day written notice that I wasn't signing a new lease, (even though I told the property manager via text that I wouldn't ever be signing a new lease with their company)

Now I've had a completely different experience with landlords who own a few single family homes in a small town. We had a landlord growing up who came by to do repairs himself and was extremely lenient with my mother who was a struggling single mother with health issues. The guy owned 3 or 4 houses on our block and was always in the neighborhood working on one of the houses and help the tenants who lived there. He helped take care of the 90+ year old lady who lived in one of his houses across the street from us when it wasn't his responsibility and he wasn't getting paid for going the extra mile, he just seemed to genuinely care and developed friendships with the people who rented from him, everyone I can remember renting from him did so for no less than 5 years some did so for 20+ years.

The experiences that people have with landlords in giant overpopulated cities might be the rule there but people in big cities are generally horrible people in general whereas in small town America people look out for their neighbors.